Oilers 6-5 Hurricanes (OT): Draisaitl and McDavid stack five points each in goal-fest

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Ten goals, two five-point nights, and a winner that arrived despite 21 shots against 27. Edmonton's 6-5 after overtime at Rogers Place was less an NHL game than a shooting gallery with whistles.

Leon Draisaitl opened the scoring at the nine-minute mark off Evan Bouchard's feed, 1-0. Jackson Blake answered two minutes later, Sebastian Aho assisting, 1-1 at the break in a first period that already carried three penalties — Nicolas Deslauriers, Kasperi Kapanen and Ty Emberson all sat in the opening frame. Carolina owned the second: Aho scored himself at 21 for 1-2, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins replied at 25 with Draisaitl setting him up, then Seth Jarvis at 33 and Logan Stankoven at 38 — Nikolaj Ehlers helping — sent the Hurricanes to the third up 4-2.

The third flipped the night. Connor McDavid struck at 41, 3-4. Draisaitl tied it at 43 off Nugent-Hopkins. Juuso Välimäki nudged Carolina ahead 4-5 at 58, Jordan Martinook's second assist of the game, and McDavid answered inside a minute, 5-5, with Draisaitl again the architect. Three goals to one in the period, then overtime settled it: Edmonton 6-5.

Draisaitl closed with two goals and three assists. McDavid matched him line for line: two and three, including the 59th-minute equalizer. Nugent-Hopkins chipped in a goal and an assist of his own; Aho matched him for Carolina, while Martinook's two helpers led the visitors. Devon Levi made 22 saves behind a blue line that kept leaking chances. The special-teams ledger leaned Edmonton's way — 3-for-5 (60%) on the power play against Carolina's 1-for-2 (50%) — and Sean Walker's two third-period penalties kept the Hurricanes shorthanded.

Outshot, twice behind, level with a minute left. Edmonton still found the last word after overtime.