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05/17 01:18 CDT J.T. Miller's late goal lifts Canucks past Oilers to take a 3-2
series lead
J.T. Miller's late goal lifts Canucks past Oilers to take a 3-2 series lead
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) --- J.T. Miller scored with 33 seconds
remaining to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton
Oilers on Thursday night that put them a win away from the Western Conference
Final.
Carson Soucy and Phillip Di Giuseppe both scored in their returns to the lineup
for Vancouver, which will try to wrap up the series in Game 6 on Saturday in
Edmonton. Rookie Arturs Silovs made 21 saves for the Canucks.
With the game tied at 2, Vancouver's Pius Suter fired a shot from near the
boards and it bounced off the skate of teammate Elias Pettersson in front of
the net and hit the post. Miller picked it up and batted it in for the go-ahead
goal, his third of the playoffs.
Evander Kane and Mattias Janmark scored for the Oilers, who got 32 saves from
Calvin Pickard.
Leon Draisaitl set up the first goal of the game, digging out a puck behind
Vancouver's net and backhanding it to Kane at the bottom of the face off
circle. Kane snapped a shot past Silovs for his third goal of the postseason
4:34 into the game.
Draisaitl's assist gave him at least one point in each of Edmonton's 10 playoff
games. He has eight goals and 13 assists in the postseason.
Soucy, who sat out Game 5 while serving a suspension, tied it at 1 late in the
first with a blast from the face off circle that pinged off the bar at the
17:27 mark. The defenseman was suspended by the NHL for cross-checking
Edmonton's Connor McDavid after the final horn in Game 3.
Edmonton regained the lead 33 seconds later off an odd-man rush after Soucy
fell in the offensive zone. Connor Brown picked up the loose puck and streaked
into Vancouver territory with Janmark. Brown passed to Janmark, who tapped it
in to put the Oilers up 2-1.
The Canucks tied it at 2 in the second after Nils Aman disrupted Evan
Bouchard's clearing attempt behind Edmonton's net. Di Giuseppe, who missed Game
5 because of a personal issue, picked off the puck, spun and wrapped a shot in
past Pickard for his first career playoff goal.
McDavid came within inches of giving Edmonton the lead with about six minutes
left in the game, but shot sailed just wide of the Canucks' net.
The Oilers were 0 for 5 on the power play, while the Canucks went 0 for 4.
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The story has been updated to correct the time of Miller's goal to 33 seconds
left instead of 31.9 seconds, per official stats.
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