Leon Draisaitl wins it in OT as Oilers tie Stanley Cup Final - ESPN

SUNRISE, Fla. — Leon Draisaitl scored in overtime for the fourth time this postseason, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Florida Panthers 5-4 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night to tie the series, erasing a three-goal deficit and bouncing back after allowing the late tying goal.

Jake Walman gave the Oilers their first lead with 6:24 left in the third period, before Sam Reinhart scored with 19.5 seconds left to send it to overtime. Three of the first four games of this Final have needed extra time to be settled, the first time that has happened since 2013 and fifth time in NHL history.

Draisaitl's goal 11:18 into OT — the fourth session of extra hockey between these teams — sent the series back to Western Canada even. Game 5 of what's turning into a classic, back-and-forth series between two hockey heavyweights is Saturday night in Edmonton.

«It's obviously a fortunate bounce. No secret about it. We'll take it,» Draisaitl said.

«We're a resilient group. We're never going to quit no matter what. We'll take it and go home,» he added. «Our first isn't what we wanted and then we started to get our legs.… That's the intensity we have to play with when the puck drops.»

Draisaitl set an NHL playoff record with his fourth overtime goal in one postseason, breaking a tie with four players, including Florida's Matthew Tkachuk in 2023, current teammate Corey Perry, who did so with Anaheim in 2017, and Maurice Richard (1951). It was Draisaitl's second overtime goal of this series, joining Montreal's John LeClair, who scored two OT goals in the Canadiens' win over Los Angeles in 1993, and the New York Rangers' Don Raleigh in 1950.

The Oilers became the first road team to erase a three-goal deficit to win a game in the