Red Wings-Oilers Tweetcap: Hyman, McDavid jinx Wings in Edmonton

The Detroit Red Wings played in a back-to-back game on Thursday night, looking to establish a 4-game winning streak while battling the explosive Edmonton Oilers.

On Thursday evening, the Red Wings somewhat predictably ran out of gas, and they ran into a star-studded Edmonton team that was able to both impose its will upon Detroit, get great goaltending from Stuart Skinner, and take advantage of some poor time management by a couple of Wings D shifts where the Oilers scored when Detroit’s defenders got caught on the ice for over 2 minutes.

Ultimately, Zach Hyman would score at 14:25 on the power play (and a cheap one at that as Patrick Kane barely hooked Human), Mattias Ekholm would score through an Albert Johansson screen (he and Travis Hamonic got caught out very long) at 2:46 of the 2nd…

And while Simon Edvinsson would score by driving the net (from Danielson and Soderblom) at 5:41 of the 2nd, Hyman would score again at 17:48, this time with Seider and Edvinsson on the ice for 2+ minutes, via a gorgeous between-the-legs pass from McDavid that left Hyman to tap the puck in behind 4 Wings defenders…

And Hyman would score his empty-net hat trick at 18:43 of the 3rd, on a 2-on-1 with McDavid, who had 4 assists on the night.

Cam Talbot was valiant in the net despite giving up 3 goals on 28 shots against, the Wings were very good, but they couldn’t finish on Skinner, and they made just enough mental mistakes and managed their ice time just poorly enough to get beat.

The Wings will stay in Edmonton tonight and fly to Chicago tomorrow to close out their 6-game road trip against the Hawks on Saturday night.

PREGAME: Cam Talbot and Stuart Skinner led their respective teams out onto the ice at Rogers Place:

Fun facts:

The Oilers list both their lineup and gambling lines quite early…

While the Red Wings post their lineup closer to puck drop:

1ST PERIOD:

The Wings and Oilers dressed the following rosters and lineups:

PENALTY: Patrick Kane was called for hooking Leon Draisaitl at 13:24 of the 1st period, on quite the iffy call…After this happened:

GOAL: Off the “iffy call,” Draisaitl skated down low, waited out the Red Wings’ defense at the bottom of the left faceoff dot, lateralled to McDavid, and he fed the puck through Andrew Copp’s skate and into Zach Hyman, who scored an empty-net goal with 4 Wings defenders standing around him.

Edmonton 1, Detroit 0: Hyman (3) from McDavid (29) and Draisaitl (22) at 14:25 1st, PPG.

PENALTY: Matt Savoie sits for interference at 17:42 1st period.

The power play didn’t connect, so:

2ND PERIOD:

GOAL: With Travis Hamonic, Albert Johansson, Andrew Copp and Alex DeBrincat tired because they were stuck on the ice for over 2 minutes, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid pumped the puck back to Mattias Ekholm, and Ekholm’s blast went right through Johansson and past a screened Talbot at 2:46 of the 2nd period.

Edmonton 2, Detroit 0: Ekholm (3) from McDavid (30) and Nugent-Hopkins (17) at 2:46 2nd period.

GOAL: Elmer Soderblom raced up the gut and sent the puck up to Nate Danielson on the right wing as the Wings raced in 3-on-2, Danielson went far right but passed back to the slot, where Soderblom crashed the net, and Simon Edvinsson pulled up behind Soderblom and jammed home a 2-1 goal at 5:41.

Edmonton 2, Detroit 1: Edvinsson (4) from Danielson (5) and Soderblom (1) at 5:41 2nd period.

PENALTY: Mattias Ekholm was called for hooking at 10:07, after a fair amount of trading rushes by both teams.

GOAL: Sadly, after Detroit buzzed the Oilers on a long shift by Edvinsson, Seider, DeBrincat and company, the trio got caught out late, and Connor McDavid took a Darnell Nurse rim around, chipped it between his legs, and Zach Hyman was all alone in the slot, jamming the puck past Cam Talbot to make it 3-1 Edmonton.

Edmonton 3, Detroit 1: Hyman (4) from McDavid (31) and Nurse (6) and 17:48 2nd period.

PENALTY: Ben Chiarot high-sticked Zach Hyman with 33 seconds left in the 2nd period/19:27 elapsed.

3RD PERIOD:

GOALIE PULL: Detroit pulled Cam Talbot with 3:02 remaining, after a good set of attempts to tie the game and a nice bit of work by Cam Talbot to keep it close…

TIMEOUT: Detroit called timeout at 18:25 of the 3rd period.

GOAL: Zach Hyman scored on the empty net to make it 4-1 Edmonton at 18:42 of the 3rd, 2-on-1 vs. Seider.

Edmonton 4, Detroit 1: Hyman (5) from McDavid (32) and Draisaitl (23) at 18:42 3rd period.

STATISTICS: Here are the Game Summary and Event Summary:

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George Malik

My name is George Malik, and I'm the Malik Report's editor/blogger/poster. I have been blogging about the Red Wings since 2006, and have worked with MLive and Kukla's Korner. Thank you for reading!