EDMONTON — Niko Mikkola, Sam Reinhart and Carter Verhaeghe all had a goal and an assist as the Florida Panthers rubbed salt in the wounds of the Edmonton Oilers, defeating them 6-5 in a wild affair on Monday in a rematch of the Stanley Cup finalists,
won in Game 7 by the Panthers.
Jesper Boqvist, Matthew Tkachuk and Gustav Forsling also scored for the Panthers who had been shutout in their two previous road games. Florida won despite star forward Aleksander Barkov missing his second consecutive game with an illness. Zach Hyman replied with a pair for the Oilers who had a five-game winning streak snapped. Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist and Kasperi Kapanen and Connor Brown also scored for Edmonton. Captain Connor McDavid led the way with three assists.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 25 stops in net for the Panthers, while Stuart Skinner recorded 22 saves for the Oilers.Panthers: Florida got a huge short-handed goal just 2:42 into the first period as Boqvist stole a puck from a stumbling Evan Bouchard and went in on the breakaway before sending his fifth of the season through Skinner’s legs. It was only Florida’s second goal in 214 minutes of game play, including their shutouts in the two previous games entering the contest.
Oilers: Already named the NHL’s first star of the week on Monday, Draisaitl continued his impressive play of late with his sixth straight multi-point game, recording 15 points in that span. Draisaitl has had multi-point performances in eight of his last 12 games for a total of 17 multi-point games this season. Sixteen of those have come in his last 23 outings. Draisaitl currently leads the league in goals , even-strength goals , and game-winning goals .
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