4-3 OILERS OT
Edmonton’s overtime win carried the feel of a team that had been living on the edge all night and finally decided to impose its will. The penalty kill in OT was the hinge—forty-odd seconds where the Oilers played with a kind of grim, playoff‑grade clarity, collapsing tight, winning the short races, and refusing Vegas the middle of the ice. When the kill ended, you could feel the ice tilt.
Edmonton came out of it with jump, with that sharpened sense teams get after surviving something they probably shouldn’t have. Vegas, by contrast, looked a half‑step dulled, as if the missed chance had taken a little oxygen out of the building.
Bouchard’s winner was the natural consequence of that swing: a clean touch, a defender stepping into space with the confidence of a man who’s been dictating pace for months, and a shot that didn’t so much beat the goalie as announce itself. It was the kind of goal that punctuates a night—calm, heavy, inevitable.
McDavid and Savoie had already bent the game toward Edmonton with their fingerprints all over the earlier pushes, but it was Bouchard who closed the ledger, hammering home the difference between surviving overtime and owning it. If you’re shaping this for your post, the motif is simple: Edmonton didn’t escape Vegas; they outlasted them, then finished them.
Goaltenders
Zach Hyman (30) EDM NUnassisted
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