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Mattias Ekholm tied the game with 18 seconds left in regulation before teammate Leon Draisaitl scored 18 seconds into overtime to lift the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-2 win against the visiting San Jose Sharks on Saturday afternoon.

Zach Hyman also scored, Connor McDavid had three assists and Calvin Pickard made 20 saves for the Oilers, who have won seven of their last eight games.

Yaroslav Askarov made 39 saves in his third start of the season for the Sharks and fifth of his NHL career.

Askarov, 22, the 11th overall pick by the Nashville Predators in the 2020 NHL Draft, made 23 saves in the second period, the second-most in a period in team history behind 24 by Wade Flaherty in 1996.

Luke Kunin and Jan Rutta scored for San Jose, which has lost four in a row despite leading in the third period of all four.

The Oilers tied Saturday’s game 2-2 with Pickard pulled for the extra skater. Corey Perry fed the puck back to Ekholm, who scored with a one-timer from the inside edge of the left circle.

The Sharks took a 1-0 lead at 3:23 of the first period.

Timothy Liljegren sent the puck up the wall from deep in his own zone, and Alexander Wennberg beat two Edmonton players to it to prevent an icing penalty.

At the same time, Kunin was beating two other Oilers down the ice. Wennberg spotted him and slid a pass from below the goal line to Kunin, who scored on a one-timer from the inside edge of the right circle.

The Oilers tied it 1-1 at 7:07 of the first.

McDavid circled behind the San Jose net with the puck before coming out the other side. He slid a pass through traffic from the right circle to Hyman in the opposite circle, and he scored with a one-timer for his 12th goal of the season and ninth in the past eight games.

McDavid increased his point streak to eight games (three goals, 14 assists).

San Jose moved back ahead 2-1 at 8:21 of the first.

The Sharks were on a delayed penalty when San Jose defenseman Jake Walman centered a pass to Rutta halfway between the blue line and the hash marks. Rutta initially fumbled the pass, but he had time and space to snap a one-timer past Pickard for his first goal in 36 games.

–Field Level Media