Detroit Red Wings' Pius Suter (24) and Edmonton Oilers' Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) battle for the puck during second period NHL action in Edmonton on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
EDMONTON – Pius Suter scored the shootout winner as the Detroit Red Wings kept up their second-half surge with a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.
Dylan Larkin, Moritz Seider, Robby Fabbri and Olli Maatta scored for the Red Wings (25-20-8), who have now won four straight.
Ville Husso made 41 saves between regulation and overtime.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a pair of goals and Leon Draisaitl and Derek Ryan also replied for the Oilers (30-19-6), who have dropped two in a row.
Jack Campbell stopped 19-of-23 shots leading up to the shootout.
Detroit opened the scoring 4:17 into the first period on the power play as Larkin snuck a short-side shot past Campbell to extend his goal streak to four games. He has six goals across the stretch and 21 on the season.
The Red Wings added a bizarre goal at 17:19 when Seider sent a backhand shot from the corner towards the net and it caromed off defenceman Philip Broberg, the post, and then Campbell before going in.
Edmonton had no luck in the opening frame as Darnell Nurse and Klim Kostin both hit the posts.
Nugent-Hopkins got the Oilers on the board 1:26 into the second period when he ripped a wrist shot past Husso.
Fabbri restored Detroit’s two-goal edge on the power play when he creeped in from the point and beat Campbell clean to the far side at 9:06.
Edmonton made it a one-goal game just over two minutes later as Connor McDavid sent a one-handed pass across the crease to Nugent-Hopkins, who recorded his 26th goal of the season in his 55th game. Nugent-Hopkins’s career best is 28 goals in 82 games in 2018-2019.
Maatta made it 4-2 with 3:48 to play in the second, scoring his fifth goal of the season on a point blast off the faceoff.
The Oilers power play went to work 3:26 into the third period as Draisaitl put all his weight behind a one-timer to score his 31st.
Edmonton pulled even a couple of minutes later as a long Kostin shot was deftly tipped past Husso by Ryan into the net, eventually sending the game to overtime.
NOTES
The Oilers were forced to deviate from their recent practice of dressing seven defencemen and 11 forwards when blue-liner Vincent Desharnais was unable to dress due to illness. Also out for Edmonton was Kailer Yamamoto, who is ready to return but can’t be added to the lineup at the moment due to salary cap concerns, and Ryan Murray (back). “¦ Missing for Detroit was Lucas Raymond (lower body) and Jake Walman (upper body) “¦ Larkin is averaging a career-high 0.98 pints per game this season and is on pace for a career-high 79 points (32 goals, 48 assists) this season, and if he keeps it up would be the first Red Wings player with back-to-back 30-goal seasons since Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg both did so in 2007-08 and 2008-09.
UP NEXT
The Red Wings are right back at it on Thursday as they take on the Calgary Flames in the third game of a five-game trip. The Oilers play host to the New York Rangers on Friday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 15, 2023.
