Defenseman Roman Josi’s second goal of the game with 1:17 left in overtime gave the host Nashville Predators a 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.
Steven Stamkos and Erik Haula also scored for the Predators, who have won three of their last four. Juuse Saros stopped 28 shots.
Connor McDavid had two assists for the Oilers to extend his point streak to 20 games on his 29th birthday. He has 82 points (30 goals, 52 assists) during the streak.
Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists and Zach Hyman scored twice for Edmonton, which has points in its last five (3-0-2). Tristan Jarry, who returned after missing a month with a lower body injury, made 23 saves.
Josi scored the winner on a one-time shot from a sharp angle at the bottom of the right circle with Jarry still out of the net after playing the puck.
It was 3-3 going into the third after the teams traded goals 38 seconds apart.
Josi’s first goal tied the game with 6:10 left in the second period on a slap shot from above the right circle. That countered Hyman’s second power-play goal of the game with 6:48 remaining in the middle period. Hyman poked in a puck lyimg in the crease after Draisaitl’s shot hit the goal post.
Draisaitl tied it 2-2, 7:20 into the second period.
Haula gave Nashville a 2-1 lead 3:03 into the second.
Stamkos put the Predators up 1-0, 2:45 into the game. It was his 20th goal and 602nd of his career. That moved Stamkos past Jari Kurri into 21st place, alone, all time in NHL history.
Hyman’s power-play goal with 2:54 left in the first period tied it 1-1 for the Oilers.
Jarry denied Cole Smith on a breakaway with a little over two minutes remaining in the opening period.
Defenseman Jake Walman also returned for Edmonton after being out since November with a fractured bone in his leg.
Nashville defenseman Nicolas Hague did not play due to an illness.
–Field Level Media
