Horvat has 4 points for Canucks in victory against Oilers

EDMONTON -- Bo Horvat had two goals and two assists, and the Vancouver Canucks rallied for a 5-2 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place on Friday.

Horvat scored the go-ahead goal in the third period for the Canucks (15-15-3), who trailed 2-0 after the first period.
J.T. Miller scored twice, and Collin Delia made 31 saves to win his first start for Vancouver. He won in relief in his debut Dec. 5, 7-6 in overtime against the Montreal Canadiens.
"I'm really proud of the guys, the way they stepped up," said Horvat, the Canucks captain. "It's not an easy back to back for us [6-5 shootout win against the Seattle Kraken on Thursday] with the time change and travel and with everything else going on. So, for us to play the way we did tonight, it obviously wasn't the best start, but we finished strong and Delia was really strong for us tonight."
Connor McDavid extended his point streak to 15 games with his 30th goal, and Stuart Skinner made 25 saves for the Oilers (18-15-2).
"We had the start that we wanted and then we cough it up," McDavid said. "It was not the second period that we wanted, but we still had a chance. We have to find a way to win that game, there is just no way around it."

Derek Ryan scored on a breakaway at 9:42 of the first to give Edmonton a 1-0 lead. He took a pass from Warren Foegele and made a move around Delia.
McDavid made it 2-0 at 19:55, converting a cross-crease pass from Zach Hyman. McDavid has 14 goals and 17 assists) during the longest active point streak in NHL.
"It's unacceptable," Hyman said. "We had a really good start and were up 2-0 and were the fresher team, and then they scored five unanswered. Obviously you can't win like that."

Miller made it 2-1 just 41 seconds into the second period. His shot from the high slot bounced up off Skinner and into the net for his first goal in 12 games.
Miller tied it 2-2 on the power play at 18:33 on a rebound off a shot from Elias Pettersson.
"It's been an interesting year for us, to say the least, and we don't have any quit in us, which is a real positive thing even though we have games where we have breakdowns and letdowns," Miller said. "That was one of our better games, just for the fact of getting in at 3 a.m. and having a quick turnaround against a team that's ready and are obviously very dangerous. The penalty kill was huge for us [3-for-3] and the power play was able to get one, and our third period was one of the best of the year, for sure."
Delia made 13 saves in the second period and seven in the third.
"Our goaltender was great, he made the saves, especially early," Vancouver coach Bruce Boudreau said. "I think they had a nine or 10-0 barrage on us early in the first five or six minutes of the game, and he held them at bay for the most part, so that was good, real good."

Horvat gave the Canucks a 3-2 lead at 12:25 when he scored on a carom off the end boards off a shot from Tyler Myers.
Ilya Mikheyev scored at 17:19 of the third period on a shot from the slot on a pass from Horvat to make it 4-2.
"It's the best game through 60 minutes that we played in a long time," Boudreau said. "Maybe there was five minutes at the end of the first period that we weren't as good as we'd like to be, but I thought everybody was committed to playing the right way tonight, and when you do that, and you do it as a group of 20 and not of eight or 10 or 14, then you're a hard team to beat."
Horvat scored an empty-net goal with 41 seconds left for the 5-2 final.
"Tonight, I thought when the score was 2-1, we had numerous chances to find that third goal and create a little bit more separation," Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said. "It didn't go in for us. Part of that is on us, and part of that is credit to the other team's goaltender, who played very well tonight."
NOTES: The Canucks overcame a deficit of two or more goals to win on consecutive nights for the first time in their history. On Thursday against the Kraken, they battled back from 3-1, 4-2 and 5-3 to win 6-5 in a shootout. … Horvat leads the NHL with seven multigoal games this season. … McDavid is the first Oilers player to be the first in the NHL to reach 30 goals in a season since Wayne Gretzky in 1986-87. He is the second active player to have seven consecutive seasons with at least 30 goals (Alex Ovechkin, 15 times, 2005-06 to 2019-20). … Edmonton forward Ryan McLeod had two shots in 10:10 after missing 13 games with an undisclosed injury.