ST. LOUIS, MO – Connor Brown finished off a terrific dangle and pass from Connor McDavid 2:33 into overtime on Tuesday night as the Edmonton Oilers battled their way to a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center to end a two-game losing streak.
After the Oilers led 1-0 after 40 minutes on McDavid's second-period power-play goal, the Blues leveraged a Mattias Ekholm interference penalty into plenty of momentum and an equalizer on the man advantage through Jordan Kyrou before St. Albert product Colton Parayko put them up 2-1 in the final frame almost three-and-a-half minutes later.
With Edmonton's net empty, forward Leon Draisaitl wouldn't have his tying goal overturned this time, driving home his league-leading 37th tally of the campaign off a pass from McDavid with 2:14 remaining in regulation to send the game to overtime, where Brown buried his first goal in 21 games past goaltender Jordan Binnington off a sublime move and assist from his team's captain to earn the Oilers the extra point.
"I think it was a little bit of an up-and-down kind of game for us," Draisaitl said. "I thought we were alright in the first – pretty good actually – and then not good in the second and gave up a couple in the third. But it's a fun way to get two points, which is all that matters."
McDavid notched his 23rd goal to go along with two assists on the night, while Draisaitl had a goal and an assist to lead the NHL's goalscoring race by four and pull to within a point of Colorado's Nathan MacKinnon for the league lead in points with 79 in 53 games this season.
Evan Bouchard had two helpers, and Ekholm added a solitary helper in the victory that keeps Edmonton atop the Pacific Division with a 33-16-4 record.
"I think we dipped a little bit there for a little while. It wasn't our best, but obviously, good teams find ways to win hockey games at all times," Draisaitl said. "To come back from that obviously shows a lot of character."
The Oilers avoided extending a losing streak to three games for the first time since the opening three contests of the 2024-25 season and will move on to Chicago on Wednesday to wrap up back-to-back games at United Center against the Blackhawks.