Goaltender Anders Nilsson made 42 saves to assure the Edmonton Oilers of one point before forward Jordan Eberle scored 45 seconds into overtime to get the other in a 2-1 win against the Dallas Stars at Rexall Place. Center Leon Draisaitl stole the puck in the offensive zone and set up Eberle, who found space in the slot and fired a shot past Dallas goaltender Antti Niemi to give Edmonton its second straight win and its first this season against a Central Division opponent.
The Stars outshot the Oilers 43-24, and the game would not have gone to overtime had it not been for Nilsson, who has 90 saves in two starts against Dallas this season. He made 48 saves in his Oilers debut on Oct. 13, a 4-2 loss.
Nilsson made one save in overtime before Eberle won the game. Eberle has struggled since returning to the lineup after missing the first 13 games because of a shoulder injury sustained in the final game of the preseason. He has four points, all goals, in 14 games.
Taylor Hall scored in the first period for the Oilers. Mattias Janmark tied the game late in the second for Dallas, and Niemi made 22 saves. The Stars got off to a quick start; Nilsson had to stop Tyler Seguin's breakaway 90 seconds into the game and later stopped Jamie Benn after the Stars' captain was sent in alone. Hall put the Oilers ahead at 14:49. He went in on the forecheck, fished the puck out of the skates of Patrik Nemeth and lifted a shot over Niemi for his 10th goal. The Oilers were outshot 14-8 in the first period but left the ice with a 1-0 lead.
Nilsson continued to frustrate the Stars in the second period. His best save came on defenseman Jordie Benn when he slid across his crease and kicked away a one-timer while killing a penalty. But Janmark tied the game with 1:37 left in the period. Janmark spun away from Oilers defenseman Mark Fayne following an offensive-zone faceoff, went to the net and knocked in the rebound of a point shot by defenseman Jamie Oleksiak, for his fifth goal.
Nilsson was brilliant in the third period, when the Stars outshot the Oilers 15-4 and controlled the play for minutes at a time. He stopped Janmark on a breakaway early in the period, then was able to get a pad out to stop a shot through traffic by Vernon Fiddler. Hemsky broke in alone on the wing midway through the period, getting around defenseman Andrej Sekera, but Nilsson stopped him too.
Stars Quotes
Lindy Ruff: "He made some great saves, right off the start we probably could have had three or four. In the third period, we were really on top of them. I thought we missed a couple of good opportunities, but he made a couple of real good saves. He made his share, that's for sure."Mattias Janmark: "We had some really good scoring chances and we should have scored early in the game. But we had to grind it out and got a point. We'll take that, but we wanted to get two."
Vern Fiddler: "He played really good against us in Dallas, and obviously, he stood on his head against us here again. We have to execute on our chances, but I thought it was a pretty good effort on back-to-back games after getting in late. I didn't think we sat back at all, we took it to them. It's going to happen, we just have to get right back on the saddle the next game."
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