![]() It was Edmonton's league-leading 13th shorthanded goal of the season and Janmark's seventh goal and 20th point as the Swedish forward was able to haunt one of his former teams again this campaign. When you come on a 2-on-1 like that, you just kind of look at what he does and then try to get open." ![]() "But I knew hopefully you get one or two, and he's just a great player. I think when players get an offer from here, that's the first thing you kind of think about," Janmark said. "I would saying he wasn't a part of why I signed here. The tracking Evgenii Dadonov couldn't cut the Oilers captain off at the blue line, leading to a shorthanded 2-on-1 where McDavid feathered a pass under the glove of a sliding Ryan Suter to set up Janmark for the open net and a 2-0 advantage for the Blue & Orange. The Janitor, with the Oilers understaffed on the penalty kill, cleaned up the mess.ĭesharnais batted down the puck in the Oilers crease for a heroic clearance down a man, sending it out of danger and into the corner for McDavid to pick up and fly the defensive zone with speed. Video: Foegele puts home a pass to strike first CLEANING UP ON THE KILL He worked at his game and he's played really well and he's finding offence, but it comes from his skating and from his hard work." Coming off that injury, it's hard to get back up and running again when the league has gotten better, so there were some tough moments with not playing for a little bit. "I think he scored his first goal in game 12 or 13, whatever the Tampa Bay game was, and he started to come on and then got hurt. He's playing really hard," Head Coach Jay Woodcroft said. The 26-year-old had a great game on Tuesday against the Ottawa Senators, recording and goal and assist and matching a season-high for ice time with 15:55 alongside Draisaitl and Nugent-Hopkins, before continuing that top-six momentum into Thursday's tilt with the Stars with Zach Hyman out of the lineup for a second straight game.īouchard threw a pass diagonally from the point to the left circle for Nugent-Hopkins, who slid it across to Foegele to fire home the opening goal at the end of a nice passing play that followed a strong offensive-zone shift from 93 - 29 - 37.įoegele's 12 goals this season are now one off his career high of 13 set in 2019-20 as a member of the Carolina Hurricanes. Warren Foegele stayed hot with his 12th goal of the season at 12:12 of the first period that opened the scoring for Edmonton at the end of a dominant shift for the second line. Video: OILERS TODAY | Post-Game vs DAL 03.16.23 Janmark scored the game-winner shorthanded in the opening frame before adding the empty-netter in the final three minutes of regulation for his second multi-goal game of the season, while Connor McDavid's 39th multi-point game of the campaign with a goal and assist made the captain the first 130-point scorer in the NHL since the 1992-93 NHL season.Įvan Bouchard posted two assists, and Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Vincent Desharnais contributed single helpers in the victory that improves Edmonton's record to 38-23-8 and 84 points. "They could've had a lot, but were able to just play a good defensive game - especially in the second period." "Just a huge credit to the guys being able to box them out, not giving those second chances and being able to get in front of lanes and get sticks." "I think the guys did a great job in front of me," Skinner said. The Edmonton Oilers took down the Central Division-leading Dallas Stars on Thursday night, receiving 25 saves from Stuart Skinner and two goals from Mattias Janmark in a 4-1 victory at Rogers Place that marks back-to-back victories on home ice for the Blue & Orange. EDMONTON, AB - It took everyone in their star-studded lineup to earn two valuable points.
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