The Edmonton Oilers (6-6-4) hosted the Colorado Avalanche (9-1-5) on Saturday night (Nov. 8) as four of the league’s best players battled it out. In what should have been a highly anticipated match, it turned into a rout as the Avalanche dominated the Oilers 9-1 for a lopsided road victory. One team showed up, the other didn’t. Here is your game overview.
Summary of the game
The Avalanche opened the scoring 13:29 into the first period. Cale Makar came in from the right point and fired a shot off the post and inside, past goalkeeper Stuart Skinner for his fifth goal of the season. Just over a minute later, Makar added another on a similar play, beating the netminder under the arm. Colorado thought they had added another courtesy of Gabriel Landeskog, but the Oilers challenged for offside and were successful, keeping the score at 2-0. That was the score going into the break, with the Avalanche leading 9-6.
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Colorado extended the lead to 3-0 just 2:38 into the middle frame. Sam Malinski’s point shot was not cleared cleanly by Skinner, and Gavin Brinkley pounced on the juicy rebound for his second of the campaign. Colorado’s dominance continued when Brent Burns’ slap pass was redirected by Jack Drury in the high slot, past the netminder, 4:45 into the period. Skinner was eventually replaced by Calvin Pickard in the Oilers’ net.
The Oilers continued to be embarrassed on home ice as Parker Kelly made it 5-0. Colorado won another puck battle and Kelly was left alone in front of the net, sliding the puck past Pickard.
Edmonton finally got on the board with a power play marker at the 11:30 mark of the period. Connor McDavid came in and picked his spot on the short side for his fifth of the season.
Kelly added another with a shorthanded goal. Kelly forced a turnover and jumped on a breakaway, beating Pickard with a shot fake, backhand, for a beautiful goal. The Avalanche took a huge 6-1 lead into the second intermission, leading by 12-10 shots in the period, and 21-16 overall.
To start the final frame, Nathan MacKinnon had an odd rush with Martin Necas, connecting a shot just 24 seconds into the period for his 11th of the season. MacKinnon scored again to make it 8-1. He stepped out of the box and entered the attacking zone with speed, ripping a shot over Pickard’s glove in a hurry for his fourth point of the game. Then Drury made it 9-1 for his second of the match thanks to a nice feed from Ross Colton in the slot. Colorado outscored Edmonton 14-8 in the third period and 34-24 overall.
The Avalanche conclude their two-game road back-to-back on Sunday (Nov. 9) against the Vancouver Canucks. Meanwhile, the Oilers conclude their two-game mini-homestand on Monday (Nov. 10) against the Columbus Blue Jackets. These two teams meet again on March 10 in Colorado. Keep following The hockey writers for all your NHL content throughout the season.
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