Oilers Outshoot Panthers

     The Florida Panthers continued their long road trip and fell to the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in a shootout at Rogers Place on Thursday night. The Panthers extended their winless streak to four games.
     Florida(17-17-8) got out to a 1-0 lead at 9:06 of the first period. Frank Vatrano collected his 12th goal of the campaign with an assist from Bogdan Kiselevich.
     Edmonton(21-20-3) tied the contest 1-1 just 26 seconds later. Darnell Nurse got the tally while Alex Chiasson and Connor McDavid were credited with assists on the play.
     The Panthers made it 2-1 at the 4:28 mark of the second. There was a loose puck following a rebound in the high slot and Denis Malgin then snapped in a wrist shot past Cam Talbot.
     The Oilers evened it up 2-2 with 22 seconds left in the period. Leon Draisaitl won the faceoff in the right circle and pulled it back to Nurse on the right point. His slapshot was saved by James Reimer, but McDavid flipped in the rebound from the left side of the crease.
     The Cats moved ahead for the third time with 5:58 left in the third period. Henrik Borgstrom was behind the Oilers cage and he blindly backhanded the puck to the crease area. It deflected off the sticks of Caleb Jones and Adam Larsson into the net.
     Edmonton pulled their goalie for an extra attacker in the final minute. Draisaitl connected a cross-ice pass from the right corner to in front and McDavid tapped the puck in from the top of the blue paint with eight seconds remaining. It was the second goal of the game for McDavid and 26th goal of the season.
     In the shootout, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins squeezed in a forehand on the Oilers first attempt. Jonathan Huberdeau came up for Florida and he failed on a shootout attempt for the first time this season. McDavid lifted in a wrist shot on the second attempt for Edmonton. Aleksander Barkov missed as his snap shot hit the left post to end the game.