Charlie McAvoy scored with 1:50 left in overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 6-5 win over the Edmonton Oilers Wednesday night at Rogers Place.
“It’s great that we got that point and we fought our way back, but it just felt like a game where I thought we made a good push and were going to get the win,” Oilers forward Warren Foegele said after the game.
“To be able to come back twice and earn a point says a lot about our team when we face adversity,” Oilers winger Zach Hyman added. “But at the same time, you don’t want to put yourself in that position.
“Since we’ve been back (from the NHL all-star break), we’ve put ourselves in this position too often and we have to learn to play consistently throughout the whole game again.
The Bruins struck 2:34 into the game on a power-play goal by Morgan Geekie. The Oilers responded when Foegele bulled to the net and stuffed his 12th of the season past Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman.
Brad Marchand put a short-side wrister past the blocker of Oilers netminder Stuart Skinner to make it 2-1 Bruins just 25 seconds into the second.
Less than five minutes later, Trent Frederic manoeuvred a slow-moving deflection past Skinner to put Boston ahead 3-1.
Jake DeBrusk deposited a rebound to increase Boston’s lead, though Foegele came back with his second of the night. It was 4-2 Bruins after two.
“It felt like today even though the goals were going in, that we actually had a better second period,” Foegele said.