Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Troy Stecher scored 20 seconds aside in the second one length because the Edmonton Oilers close down the 2024 calendar yr with a 4-1 victory over the visiting Utah Hockey Membership on Tuesday evening.
With the sport tied at 1, Nugent-Hopkins notched the go-ahead target on the 4:53 mark on an odd-man smash sooner than Stecher created a two-goal margin in a while thereafter.
Mattias Ekholm and Leon Draisaitl additionally had objectives because the Oilers moved to 9-1-0 of their previous 10 video games at house. Connor McDavid and Connor Brown had two assists apiece for Edmonton. Goaltender Stuart Skinner had 26 saves for his 14th win this season.
For Utah, Jack McBain scored whilst goalie Jaxson Stauber made 34 saves because the membership misplaced its 5th immediately sport (0-4-1). Clayton Keller, who has a team-high 37 issues at the season, used to be a overdue scratch because of an sickness.
The Oilers were given at the board at 4:26 of the primary length when defenseman Ekholm stepped up into the left circle and ripped house a slap shot.
Alternatively, Utah’s main target scorer, Dylan Guenther, performed the position of giver 1:34 later, dishing the puck from the half-boards into the slot to a charging McBain, who slickly beat Skinner for the equalizer.
In a fast paced first length, Edmonton fired 15 photographs on Stauber, however the 25-year-old goalie grew to become away 14 of them.
The house facet broke the sport open in the second one length with a couple of short objectives.
Nugent-Hopkins, who had the game-winning target in time beyond regulation in opposition to the Utah Hockey Membership on Nov. 29 in Salt Lake Town, pressured a turnover and completed a breakaway off a go from McDavid. Stecher then made it 3-1 sooner than Nugent-Hopkins’ tally had even been introduced.
Within the 3rd, Utah had a possibility to chop into the deficit on its 2d energy play of the sport, nevertheless it got here up empty.
Draisaitl’s league-leading twenty seventh target of the season went into an empty web at 18:58 of the 3rd and all however completed off the win.
–Box Stage Media
