- Michal Postava stopped all three Oilers shooters in the shootout for his first NHL win
- Detroit rallied from a 3-2 deficit late in the third to win 4-3 in Edmonton
- Read below for the Larkin tying goal and the Zach Hyman injury scare
Michal Postava has his first NHL win.
The Red Wings goalie made 25 saves and then stopped all three Oilers shooters in the shootout as Detroit beat Edmonton 4-3 at Rogers Place on Monday. It was Postava’s first NHL start and second game in the league.
Watch the moment the win became official:
The 24-year-old made his debut last Thursday when he came in for John Gibson in a win over Vancouver, which we covered here. This time he got the net from the opening faceoff and needed every save.
Edmonton took a 3-2 lead on a Colton Dach tip with 3:28 left in regulation. Postava went to the bench for the extra attacker, and Dylan Larkin tied it at 18:34 by kicking a pass up to his stick and slipping it between Tristan Jarry’s pads.
Catch Larkin’s tying goal:
Postava then denied Evan Bouchard from the slot with nine seconds left in overtime to push it to a shootout. Lucas Raymond scored the only goal of the shootout, and Postava shut the door on everyone else.
Viktor Arvidsson had a goal and an assist for Detroit, while Raymond added two assists. Emmitt Finnie scored the 2-2 goal 30 seconds after Isaac Howard gave the Oilers a power-play lead. The Red Wings improved to 5-4-3 and finished their road trip 2-1-1.
Edmonton dropped to 8-2-2 and has lost two straight. Connor McDavid picked up an assist to stretch his point streak to start the season to 12 games.
The Oilers also had a scare in the second period. Zach Hyman needed help off the ice after Andreas Englund hit him and his head made contact with the glass.
See the hit:
Hyman is 34 and missed the first six games of the season with an upper-body injury. Edmonton is already without Matt Savoie, Jason Dickinson, Mattias Janmark, Mattias Ekholm, Alec Regula and Frederik Andersen.
