The Edmonton Oilers (6-6-4) hosted the Colorado Avalanche (9-1-5) on Saturday evening (Nov 8), as 4 of the league’s greatest gamers did battle. In what was speculated to be a extremely anticipated matchup became a rout because the Avalanche dominated the Oilers 9-1 for a lopsided highway victory. One staff confirmed up, and the opposite didn’t. Right here’s your sport recap.
Sport Recap
The Avalanche opened the scoring 13:29 into the primary interval. Cale Makar walked in from the proper level and ripped a shot off the put up and in, previous goaltender Stuart Skinner for his fifth purpose of the season. Then, simply over one minute later, Makar added one other on an analogous play, beating the netminder below the arm. Colorado thought they added one other courtesy of Gabriel Landeskog, however the Oilers challenged for offside, and have been profitable, conserving the rating 2-0. That was the rating heading into the intermission, with the Avalanche having a 9-6 shot benefit.
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Colorado prolonged the result in 3-0 simply 2:38 into the center body. Sam Malinski’s level shot wasn’t dealt with cleanly by Skinner, and Gavin Brinkley pounced on the juicy rebound for his second of the marketing campaign. Colorado’s dominance continued as Brent Burns’ slap go was redirected by Jack Drury within the excessive slot, previous the netminder, 4:45 into the interval. Skinner was ultimately changed by Calvin Pickard within the Oilers’ internet.
The Oilers continued to be embarrassed on house ice as Parker Kelly made it 5-0. Colorado gained one other puck battle, and Kelly was left alone in entrance of the web, sliding the puck previous Pickard.
Edmonton lastly obtained on the board with a power-play marker 11:30 into the interval. Connor McDavid walked in and picked his spot short-side for his fifth of the season.
Kelly added one other with a shorthanded purpose. Kelly pressured a turnover and sprung himself on a breakaway, beating Pickard with a pretend shot, backhand, for a stupendous purpose. The Avalanche took an enormous 6-1 lead into the second intermission, with a 12-10 shot benefit within the interval, and 21-16 total.
To begin the ultimate body, Nathan MacKinnon had an odd-man rush with Martin Necas, and he ripped a shot simply 24 seconds into the interval for his eleventh of the season. MacKinnon scored one other to make it 8-1. He stepped out of the penalty field and entered the offensive zone with pace, ripping a shot over Pickard’s glove off the frenzy for his fourth level of the competition. Then, Drury made it 9-1 for his second of the sport off a pleasant feed from Ross Colton within the slot. Colorado outshot Edmonton 14-8 within the third interval and 34-24 total.
The Avalanche conclude their two-game highway back-to-back on Sunday (Nov. 9) in opposition to the Vancouver Canucks. In the meantime, the Oilers conclude their mini two-game homestand on Monday (Nov. 10) in opposition to the Columbus Blue Jackets. These two groups meet once more on March 10 in Colorado. Maintain following The Hockey Writers for all of your NHL content material all through the season.
