As of: January 16, 2025 8:52 a.m

National ice hockey player Leon Draisaitl has with the Edmonton Oilers clinched their third win in a row in the NHL. The Buffalo Sabres scored a strange goal.

Both Minnesota Wild the Canadians won Edmonton After a two-goal deficit, the score was 5:3 (2:2, 1:1, 2:0). Captain Connor McDavid scored two goals and added another.

He moved into the all-time scorer list Oilers past Jari Kurri to second place behind Wayne Gretzky. League top scorer Draisaitl prepared the first Oilers-hits before.

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The Wild initially had a two-goal lead before Zach Hyman and McDavid equalized at the end of the first period. After Minnesota After taking the lead again in the middle third, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Wassili Podkolzin and McDavid turned the game around with his second goal of the evening.

The Oilers have recently won seven of eight games and are clearly in the lead after a mixed start to the season playoffs-Course.

Peterka wins with Buffalo

They won the second game of the evening Buffalo Sabres with the German national player JJ Peterka with a 4-2 win against the Carolina Hurricanes. Ryan McLeod achieved his first Hat trick in the NHL. Sabres-Goalkeeper Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen also shone with 35 saved shots.

McLeod’s third goal shortly before the end was curious. After a rebound from the post he wanted to center into the void Hurricanes-Goal scored, Carolina’s Brent Burns broke his stick when trying to save.

The referees recognized this as a goal for McLeod, making the Sabers the first team since there was data in the NHL (1965/66) to score a goal, even though statistically they did not shoot at the opponent’s goal in the period.

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