Draisaitl scores late and lifts the Oilers past the Ducks

Draisaitl scores late and lifts the Oilers past the Ducks

Draisaitl directed the puck past Lukas Dostal from the side of the post after Zach Hyman redirected Darnell Nurse’s cross-ice pass to the Edmonton forward in the right faceoff circle.

The goal extended his point streak to 13 games (25 points; 11 goals, 14 assists). Draisaitl leads the NHL with 28 goals and nine game-winning goals.

Nurse had a goal and an assist and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored for the Oilers (23-12-3), who have won two straight. Stuart Skinner made 27 saves.

Brett Leason and Jackson LaCombe scored and Dostal made 23 saves for the Ducks (16-18-4), who had won three straight after a 4-3 overtime win over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.

Nugent-Hopkins gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead at 16:54 of the first period when he fired a tight-angle shot from the bottom of the left circle that bounced past LaCombe’s stick.

Nurse made it 2-0 at 7:57 of the second period after Jeff Skinner found him in the high slot for a wrist shot that beat Dostal’s high-stick team.

Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard had a pass in the offensive zone that bounced off his stick, which was caught by Leason for a breakaway before hitting a five-hole shot over Skinner at 18:32 to make the final score 2-1 .

LaCombe tied the score at 2-2 on the power play at 6:53 of the third period, with Ryan Strome circling the perimeter before sending it back at the point with a wrist shot that hit the top corner past Skinner’s glove.

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