from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,
On the night they put the steady, consistent Lee Fogolin, and the persistent, tenacious Ryan Smyth into the Edmonton Oilers Hall of Fame, it was the New Jersey Devils who used all of the above to take home the two points.
The speedy, entertaining and opportunistic Devils scored twice in seven seconds and three times in the third period, erasing a 3-1 Oilers lead and snapping Edmonton’s five-game winning streak like an old wooden Koho on a cold Alberta day.
“I definitely feel we should have won. I definitely feel like we created enough chances,” said Connor McDavid, who scored his 12th goal in Game 11 and added a helper for his 24th point. “We probably gave up too many chances, but I thought (goalie Stuart Skinner) gave us a great chance to win.
“You have a team on the ropes… and you’ve got to put them down. You have to find a way to close that one out.”
In the grand scheme, this 4-3 loss will provide a touchpoint for third-period leads down the road. In the short term, it was simply a case of a Devils team that has found itself, reeling off its fifth straight win in impressive fashion.
They fell behind Edmonton 3-1 after two periods, and the Oilers had laid claim to this game. But the Devils are into the details, and they took this game back with a smart, structured and sneaky game plan — including the game-winner off a nice set play that caught Edmonton sleeping.
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