Player grades: Edmonton Oilers' magic bus runs out of gas on left coast
Oilers 2, Canucks 3 Edmonton Oilers tempted fate once too often on Saturday, and this time they paid for it. They dug yet another deep first-period hole against a spirited Vancouver Canucks squad, allowing all 3 goals in 3? minutes late in the first period including a pair of powerplay tallies by first star Quinn Hughes. Facing yet another 0-3 deficit, the travel-weary squad once again came on gangbusters in the middle frame with a pair of Leon Draisaitl goals, but ran into a wall of determined defence in the third frame, producing no miracles and just 3 shots on goal.? A single 1 of those shots — a 163-footer credited to Darnell Nurse — came in the final 16 minutes of action.