Leon Draisaitl scored two goals on Tuesday night, including the game-winning goal just 1:52 into overtime, as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the New York Islanders 4-3.
Anders Lee scored twice in the final minutes for the Islanders to tie the game, but the Oilers took control in overtime, getting all four shots. With the Islanders’ trio of Bo Horvat, Simon Holmstrom, and Ryan Pulock still on the ice for nearly two full minutes, Connor McDavid and Draisaitl came on for a shift change.
McDavid passed the puck to Evan Bouchard, who then found Draisaitl for a close-range shot that beat goalie Ilya Sorokin.
Bouchard (who had two assists) and McDavid also scored for the Oilers, who have now won two games in a row after a two-game losing streak. McDavid added three assists, bringing him one point away from 1,000 career points.
Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner made 19 saves in the win.
For the Islanders, Kyle Palmieri scored in the second period, and Sorokin had 38 saves. This was the Islanders’ second straight overtime loss.
After a scoreless first period, Draisaitl gave the Oilers the lead with a power-play goal 36 seconds into the second. Palmieri answered for the Islanders, tying the game at 1-1 with 4:02 left in the second, when he received a pass from Maxim Tsyplakov and beat Skinner with a shot under his stick arm.
In the third, Bouchard gave the Oilers a 2-1 lead just 57 seconds in, capping off an extended attack in the Islanders’ zone. McDavid then made it 3-1 with 9:41 left, stealing a pass from Noah Dobson and scoring with a no-look pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
Lee started the Islanders’ comeback with a goal at 12:16, after a shot by Pulock bounced off Skinner’s pads. With the extra attacker on, Lee scored again, taking a pass from Jean-Gabriel Pageau and firing it past Bouchard and under Skinner with 2:40 left to make it 3-3.
