The assist was Ryan’s first point of the season, ending a 14-game goalless streak, while Janmark’s assist was also the 199th.^th of his career, similar to Hyman’s assist on Draisaitl’s opening goal in the first half.

It wasn’t until 1:14 later that Viktor Arvidsson received a layoff pass from Draisaitl entering the zone before the forward skated to the slot and placed his shot low on Lankinen, scoring his second goal of the season to give the Oilers an advantage. 3-0 advantage.

But don’t forget the Canucks.

Elias Pettersson scored just 18 seconds after Arvidsson on a perfectly placed deflection before the Canucks pulled within a goal just under two minutes later on a power play thanks to Filip Hronek, who beat Skinner between the circles to make the score 3-2. 13 minutes from the end of the second period.

During this Canucks response sequence, Stuart Skinner made more quiet contributions with a few timely saves while his team’s backs were against the wall. The goaltender didn’t have the most eye-popping stat line with just 17 saves on 20 shots, but the Edmonton product was able to notch his 76th career win on Saturday to tie Curtis Joseph for eighth in franchise history. the franchise.

“He was good, especially with some key saves in the second half, when they pushed,” Knoblauch said. “Sometimes you look at the stats and they can be misleading. Sometimes a goalscorer can score a few goals and have a terrible game. For the goalkeepers it can be an easy night, but tonight if you look at the stats with three goals Granted, it doesn’t look very good, but he made a lot of key saves.

Coach Knoblauch took the opportunity to take advantage of Edmonton’s timeout and calm down his group, which seemed to work as his team took a 3-2 lead into the second intermission. But at the time of the third period, it was all Blue and Orange until the end.

“It’s hard to decide when to use it, but after the next whistle there would be a two-minute timeout,” Knoblauch said. “So we’re not sure if you want to get that downtime back because you might need it later, but I think the way things have been going, we just needed to reset, refocus and to just have a little message for the players and to come back to work.