Yamamoto scores with 28 seconds left in third period, Oilers defeat Blues

ST. LOUIS -- Kailer Yamamoto scored with 28 seconds left in the third period to give the Edmonton Oilers a 5-4 win against the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center on Sunday.

Yamamoto scored from the slot off a pass from Leon Draisaitl over the glove of Blues goalie Jordan Binnington.
"It's huge," Yamamoto said. "Any time you can get a game-winning goal, it's huge. I'm definitely going to try and build off that.
"It was a good pass by (Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse), kind of made a tight turn to 'Leo' and we all kind of did the rest. ... I tried to find some soft ice, open ice and he found me. Luckily, it went in."
Draisaitl had a goal and two assists, and Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist for the Oilers (11-3-0), who are 2-2-0 on their five-game road trip. Mikko Koskinen made 35 saves.
"Kind of a mixed bag tonight," McDavid said. "I thought our first wasn't great. Mikko held us in it, and I thought our second was real good and (we) deserved to be up. We gave it back to them, but I like the way we responded."

Robert Thomas had three assists, and Binnington made 27 saves for the Blues (8-4-3), who have lost three in a row (0-2-1), including 3-2 at the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday, when Brendan Smith scored the go-ahead goal with 2:57 remaining in the third.
"It's just frustrating," St. Louis defenseman Robert Bortuzzo said. "I think every guy in that room knows how valuable points are, no matter what time of year it is, the League's too competitive, there's too much parity. Strong division. So frustrating to give a few of those away, especially tonight where I thought we had great energy and a little lapse in the second but overall, I thought, good, strong spurts of hockey, similar to [Saturday] night, where we kind of played a good third period. Just frustrating."
On the deciding goal Sunday, the puck was chipped to Draisaitl along the right boards. He cut back and quickly found Yamamoto between Blues defenseman Colton Parayko and forward Vladimir Tarasenko.
"They were back. When Draisaitl turned up, (defenseman Calle) Rosen's on him," St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. "I'd like to see Thomas back off a little bit and be in better position and Parayko out farther on the guy and be tighter. That's basically what it boils down to.
"Yeah, it's disappointing big time. It's disappointing and we've got to be better, and we will be."
Ivan Barbashev scored at 4:06 of the third to make it 4-3, a shot just under the crossbar. Play continued but was eventually whistled by the box signaling a goal.
Tarasenko tied it 4-4 when he tapped in a pass from Pavel Buchnevich at 7:48.

Draisaitl's NHL-leading 15th goal, a one-timer from the bottom of the right circle on the power play at 2:51 of the second period, gave the Oilers a 2-1 lead. He has eight points (five goals, three assists) in the past three games.
"He's been on an absolute tear," McDavid said of Draisaitl.
Bortuzzo tied it 2-2 with his first goal of the season at 9:58 of the second.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ryan McLeod scored eight seconds apart, with Nugent-Hopkins giving the Oilers a 3-2 lead at 16:11 of the second, and McLeod's first NHL goal at 16:19 made it 4-2.
"It was a pretty surreal moment," McLeod said. "The puck was kind of going to the net and I was kind of coming down the middle. It popped out, and I took a backhander and the guys put their arms up. I honestly couldn't even see it go in."

Jordan Kyrou's power-play goal at 14:18 of the first, the Blues' third man-advantage of the period, gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead.
McDavid scored at 19:55 on a quick redirection off a pass from Hyman to tie it 1-1. It was McDavid's 600th NHL point.
"Late goals, those are killers, end of periods and they change the momentum of the game," Thomas said.
The Blues had a goal waved off by Barbashev at 12:00 of the first after the Oilers won a challenge when video review determined Parayko entered the zone offside at 11:46.
NOTES: It was Draisaitl's and McDavid's ninth multipoint game this season, and Draisaitl's sixth in the past seven games. He has scored 18 points (10 goals, eight assists) in that stretch. ... Tarasenko has scored a tying goal in the third period in three straight games. ... Thomas has seven assists in the past three games.