Oilers score three in third to defeat Ducks

EDMONTON -- Leon Draisaitl had two goals and two assists, and the Edmonton Oilers rallied for a 6-5 win against the Anaheim Ducks at Rogers Place on Tuesday.

Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists, Zack Kassian scored two goals, and Jesse Puljujarvi and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had two assists for Edmonton (3-0-0).
"You don't want to give up five goals ever, that means you have to scramble offensively to win a game," Draisaitl said. "We don't want to be a team like that. Obviously, the two points are big, we needed that, but there are lots of things we can do defensively. We will work on it and get better at it."

Mike Smith allowed four goals on 15 shots before leaving with an undisclosed injury at 11:35 of the second period. He was replaced by Mikko Koskinen, who made 20 saves.
"I think it's going to be day to day, he just tweaked something that he didn't want to hurt any worse," Oilers coach Dave Tippett said. "It's a lower-body injury, he's day to day and we'll see where he is tomorrow. We have a back-to-back coming up (Thursday and Friday) and we'll see. He's going to see the doctor in the morning just to check things out."
Sam Steel and Kevin Shattenkirk each scored two goals, Jakob Silfverberg had three assists, and Anthony Stolarz made 31 saves for Anaheim (2-2-0). Steel is an Edmonton native who was a healthy scratch the first three games.
"I was excited to get in, especially at home," Steel said. "I've been working really hard to try and get into the lineup, so it was nice to get in at home and contribute, but it would feel a lot better if we had a win. But you can't take penalties, especially against this team, they have two of the best players in the world, so it makes things a lot tougher."

Edmonton was 2-for-6 on the power play, which included a two-man advantage for a full two minutes. Anaheim was 0-for-1.
"When you play against that team, they have a great power play and you have to find a way to stay out of the box," Ducks forward Nicolas Deslauriers said. "I think the positive thing that you can take out of this is that we have a lot of fight in our team and we never give up. But taking too many penalties hurt us. We just have to be better there."
Kassian tied it 4-4 with a power-play goal at 5:27 of the third period when he tipped in a pass from Evan Bouchard, who then poked the puck in from behind the goal line to give the Oilers a 5-4 lead at 10:30.
"I honestly still don't know how it went in," Bouchard said. "But I will take it."
Draisaitl shot into an empty net to extend the lead to 6-4 at 18:59 before Shattenkirk scored with Stolarz again on the bench at 19:41 for the 6-5 final.
Shattenkirk, who has three goals this season after scoring two in 55 games last season, gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead at 5:07 of the first period, finishing off a three-way passing play with Adam Henrique and Trevor Zegras.
Kassian tied it 1-1 at 8:47, tapping in a cross-crease pass from Nugent-Hopkins.
McDavid scored at 14:52 on a breakaway to give the Oilers at 2-1 lead, but Steel responded 15 seconds later to tie it 2-2.

Draisaitl scored on a 5-on-3 power play at 19:29 to make it 3-2 after Cam Fowler was assessed a tripping penalty and Rickard Rakell a cross-checking penalty on the same shift. He became the seventh player in Oilers history to score 200 goals and reached the milestone in his 481st NHL game. Four Oilers (Wayne Gretzky, 242; Jari Kurri, 328; Glenn Anderson, 328; Mark Messier, 442) required fewer, and McDavid has 199 in 410 games.
Deslauriers tied it 3-3 at 8:46 of the second period, and Steel gave Anaheim a 4-3 lead with his second of the game at 9:59.
"I think it's easier done (not taking penalties) if we're coming in fresh," Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said. "Back-to-back game (Anaheim won 3-2 in overtime at the Calgary Flames on Monday), you're already behind the eight ball and with speed like that coming, you just can't take penalties. That's where we got ourselves in trouble. I will say this, I'm proud of that group, back-to-back game playing against an elite team and the way we battled and stayed in it and kept coming back, never quit, that's a big step forward for us even though we didn't get the points."