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The Oilers return home for a match against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday. The game can be seen on Sportsnet Oilers and heard on the Oilers Radio Network, including 630 CHED. Puck drop is 7:08 p.m. MDT.
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"We usually start me, Leon and Klef and all three of us are good players," said McDavid of his game-winner, scoring it on a 3-on-1 with Leon Draisaitl and Oscar Klefbom. "We know how to orchestrate a 2-on-1 or 3-on-1."
After McDavid broke up a Brandon Saad attempt in the Oilers end, the three overtime attackers jumped up the other way. McDavid accepted Draisaitl's feed and put it past goalie Cam Ward, scoring his first overtime winner of the campaign.
"Leon did a great job of getting the puck over," said No. 97, who tallied his eighth of the year and 17th point.
Edmonton failed to score on their two power plays and went 4-for-5 shorthanded.
After few stoppages through the opening minutes of the game, the whistles came in droves midway through as both sides got into penalty trouble. Edmonton failed to convert on Alex DeBrincat's tripping minor then during that power play, Draisaitl received an interference infraction with a stick-lift from the slot.
But it wasn't until Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Drake Caggiula were both called for hooking in succession, giving Chicago's 28th-ranked power play a condensed 5-on-3. Patrick Kane found Brent Seabrook cross-ice and the defender's top-shelf snipe beat Talbot on the home side's first shot of the game.
Edmonton - carrying much of the play - would respond late in the first period at even strength. Off a faceoff, Darnell Nurse's slap shot bounced towards the net, with Ward unable to snare it. Jujhar Khaira picked up the first rebound, which hit the post, but Kassian cleaned up the garbage immediately after, making it 1-1.
"It was all the fourth line tonight," said Oilers Captain McDavid. "We call them the fourth line but tonight they were the first line. They were unbelievable, all three of them, the way they were able to create chances, bang one in and get on the forecheck to create havoc for us. This was their best game of the season, for sure."
McLellan offered his compliments to the fourth line as well.
"I thought our fourth line was excellent tonight," he said. "They provided energy when we needed it, they checked well, they won big faceoffs, they were pivotal in the penalty kill, they got us the goal to get back into the game."
