Canucks snap 3-game skid as Kiefer Sherwood’s OT purpose beats Oilers

Kiefer Sherwood scored twice, together with the time beyond regulation winner, because the Vancouver Canucks edged the visiting Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Sunday evening.

Brock Boeser added a purpose and an help, and Elias Pettersson additionally scored for Vancouver, which snapped a three-game dropping streak and improved to 2-2-0 on residence ice this season.

Goaltender Thatcher Demko made 26 saves and moved to 4-0-0 in his final 4 residence begins in opposition to the Oilers.

Leon Draisaitl scored twice, and Jack Roslovic added a purpose and an help for the Oilers, who’ve dropped back-to-back video games.

Calvin Pickard stopped 23 photographs within the loss.

Sherwood redirected a Boeser shot previous Pickard at 1:43 of the additional body for the game-winner.

Trailing 3-1, the Oilers scored a pair within the third to power time beyond regulation.

Roslovic pulled Edmonton to at least one at 1:21 of the third interval, stripping Canucks defenseman Tyler Myers of the puck and snapping it brief facet previous Demko.

Edmonton tied it 3-3 on an influence play at 14:57 as Draisaitl one-timed a Connor McDavid cross previous Demko.

The Canucks took a 2-0 lead on an influence play at 2:22 of the second interval as Pettersson one-timed a Filip Hronek cross underneath the blocker of Pickard.

Edmonton lower the lead in half as Draisaitl beat Demko glove facet on a breakaway at 16:32 of the center body.

Sherwood restored the two-goal lead with 41 seconds remaining within the center body, placing a nifty toe-drag on Mattias Ekholm earlier than beating Pickard blocker facet.

Boeser opened the scoring at 15:42 of the primary interval, beating Pickard five-hole with a backhand shot on a partial break. Two of Boeser’s 4 objectives this season have come in opposition to the Oilers.

Canucks captain Quinn Hughes missed the sport resulting from a lower-body damage and was changed within the lineup by Victor Mancini. The defenseman performed 8:18 of ice time however left the sport within the second interval and didn’t return.

–Area Degree Media