Edmonton Oilers tie series with 4-3 OT win over Vancouver Canucks

Evan Bouchard scored 5:38 into overtime and the Edmonton Oilers bounced back for a 4-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs on Friday.

The result levelled the best-of-seven series at 1-1, with Game 3 set for Sunday in Edmonton.

Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid each registered a goal and three assists, while Mattias Ekholm also scored for the Oilers.

Draisaitl was listed as a game-time decision earlier in the day due to an undisclosed injury. 

The Canucks got a goal and an assist from Nikita Zadorov, while Elias Pettersson put away his first of the playoffs and Brock Boeser also scored. 

Stuart Skinner stopped 16 of 19 shots for the Oilers and Canucks goalie Arturs Silovs made 27 saves on 31 shots.

The Canucks opened the scoring on an early man advantage Friday. 

With Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in the box for tripping, J.T Miller wound up and looked like he was about to launch a big shot from the faceoff circle. Instead, he sliced a pass across the slot to Pettersson, who blasted a quick snap shot past an out-of-position Skinner 4:16 into the game. 

Edmonton's potent power play got to work before the first intermission after Tyler Myers was called for hooking. 

Silovs made a pad stop on McDavid, but couldn't keep the Oilers' captain off the scoresheet for long.

Stationed at the goal line, the superstar centre sent a pass to Draisaitl in the slot and he fired it in to tie the game at 1-1 with his sixth goal of the playoffs 10:56 into the first. 

Edmonton and Vancouver both went 1-for-3 on the power play.

Silovs kept the Oilers from taking a lead into the locker room with some last-second heroics at the end of the opening frame. 

Ekholm fired a slap shot from distance and the rookie