Nugent – Hopkins’ hat trick pushes the Oilers to beat Kraken 5-4 – Hockey Writer – Edmonton Oilers

Saturday night’s showdown brought Seattle Cleken to the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place. The home team has no superstars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, and the visitors are missing Chandler Stephenson due to injuries. The Oilers have dominated Kraken since joining the NHL. In their first 13 meetings, Edmonton has a 11-2-0 record against Seattle, including eight straight wins. The winning streak continued when the Oilers beat Kraken 5-4 in the back-and-forth event. Here is your game review.

Game review

The Oilers opened the 14:30 electric game score in the first stage. Adam Henrique walked in at the top of the left standoff circle, tearing upstairs and crossed goalkeeper Joey Daccord to the ninth of the season.

Just a minute later, Kraken answered with his powerful mark. Jani Nyman’s wrist shot was kicked out by goalkeeper Stuart Skinner, but Kaapo Kakko slammed the rebound and buried it in his twelfth game. This game is a game, and Seattle has an advantage of 11-10.

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Edmonton reinserted the lead 3:48 into the middle frame. Kasperi Kapanen found Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scribbling along the right wing, his shot deflecting from the sticks of defensive player Brandon Montour and past Daccord.

7:01 From this period, Kakko tied for Seattle in his second goal. Nyman made a great defensive performance at his Blue Line and bounced Kakko in a breakthrough game, beating Edmonton’s network backhand.

The Oiler re-matched Jeff Skinner’s lead in Season 14 of the season. Connor Brown spotted Skinner in slot machines, and his Wrister beat Seattle’s Netminder High Glove. Then, Nugent-Hopkins hit 4-2 with the double power of double small power in the later stage of the second phase. His left-off circle lawyer beat the screening goalkeeper. The Oilers entered the break with a two-target lead.

Seattle believes they scored in the third phase of the Blue Paint Jam game, but the game has been successfully challenged due to goalkeeper intervention to maintain Edmonton’s lead. However, Kraken’s time during that period was 5:57. Andre Burakovsky walked in and ripped a brief shot off the shoulder of the Oilman to finish seventh place.

However, Nugent-Hopkins finished a hat-trick on a short, empty net, with less than three minutes left for his fourth hat-handle in his career, and the first hat of the Oilers this season.

However, with 2:03 left during this period, Kraken answered 2:03, reducing the lead to 5-4 in the power game. Jared McCann found Jaden Schwartz’s backdoor Tap-In on the 20th of the season. However, they couldn’t find the Edmonton win equalizer.

Kraken ended on a four-game trip against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday (March 25). Meanwhile, the Oilers have a few days off before ending their four games in four games against the Dallas Stars on Wednesday (March 26). Both teams don’t have to wait long to update hostilities when they finish the season series in Seattle on Thursday, March 27.