Corey Perry broke a tie in the third period, Connor McDavid had four assists, and the host Edmonton Oilers defeated San Jose Sharks 4-2, and on Friday night, a play-off took place for the sixth season.
The defender Evan Bouchard had a goal and a assistant, and Ty Emberson and Connor Brown scored goals for Oilers (46-28-5, 97 points), who won the second level. Adam Henrique had two assists and Calvin Pickard saved 22. McDavid reached 70 assisters for the seventh time in his career and joined Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux as the only player to achieve this success.
Will Smith and defender Henry Thrun scored goals for sharks (20-48-11, 51 points) who lost their eighth year in a row. Georgi Romanov stopped 30 shots.
Perry’s power game goal was 3-2 in the third period to Edmonton. He passed McDavid’s equipment of Georgiev. Brown added an empty goal 26 seconds before.
Thrun tied the game with 2-2 in the second period with 14:16. During the left wing boards, the deeply harmless -looking shot attempt came out of the skate of the Oilers defender Darnell nurse in wrinkles.
Bouchard opened the goal with 6:47. Tokat Tokat on the top of the high nest diversified in San Jose’s Alexander Wennberg.
When Amberson passes a pass from McDavid, he was left behind 4:19 in the first period. It was Emberson’s first goal as a lubricant. He played with sharks last season.
But Smith put San Jose in a wrist throw from the top of the left circle only 1:32. It was the fifth goal in the last four games.
Edmonton defender Mattias Ekholm returned after missing seven matches and returned to 13 of 17 with an unexplained injury. But he left the game at the beginning of the first period. Edmonton advanced Zach Hyman left the game with an unidentified injury in the second period, so that Oilers finished with 11 forward and five defenses.
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