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Oilers scores four unanswered goals to score game 1 against Golden Knights

Las Vegas-Zach Hyman scored 3:02 from the right circle with 3:02 to finally put Edmonton in the lead.

The Oilers, who came down from 2-0, set up an NHL record with their fifth playoff comeback victory.

Vegas, which only had seven shots in the last two periods, lost a playoff game in regulation after led for the first time with at least two goals. The golden knights are 47-4 with this type of lead in the after season.

Game 2 is in Las Vegas on Thursday evening.

Leon Draisaitl had a goal and a template for the Oilers, and Corey Perry and Connor Brown scored the other goals. Evan Bouchard and Connor McDavid each had two templates. McDavid now has four consecutive native seasons with at least 10 templates for the fourth best in the history of the league. Calvin Pickard was hardly tested after the first period and ended with 15 shots.

Mark Stone scored both goals for the Golden Knights to bind Jonathan Marchessault Franchise -Record with 36 for his career in Vegas. It also extended its goal scoring series to three games. Adin Hill made 24 parades.

Both top lines occupied with the stars were delivered in the first period, with Stone scoring twice goal, the first on a double minor power play. Edmonton's top unit lowered the deficit in half with 3:34 when Perry Hill received an open network with McDavid and Draisaitl Assists.

No team achieved in the second period, although the Oilers Vegas exceed 12-1. The golden knights had never been captured in a regulatory playoff period on fewer than two shots on goal of the goal.

Edmonton did not waste a chance at the beginning of the third and captivated the score for 57 seconds when Draisaitl protected a shot from the boards and in front of Hill.

Hyman, who used to stand in the layer of Kaedan Korczak, broke the ties in the last few minutes and Brown sealed the victory 1:16 later.

The defender of Golden Knights, Alex Pietrangelo, did not play because of an illness and allowed Korczak to start his first after -season in his career. Vegas was also without a Pavel Dorofeyev, who led the team with 35 goals this season for the second game in a row due to an unknown injury. Trainer Bruce Cassidy described him as daily.

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