Nurse's overtime heroics helps Oilers sink Sharks for 4th straight victory

Darnell Nurse scored the overtime winner on his team's 51st shot as the Edmonton Oilers won their fourth game in a row, defeating the visiting San Jose Sharks 5-4 on Monday night, a game that featured four goals called back on video review.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was able to spring Nurse on a breakaway and he scored with just 15 seconds left in overtime.

"Obviously, our group, we've got to be better in here for a full 60-minute effort," Nurse said. "But we were resilient. There are nights that you are not going to feel it, but you have to find a way to win and we did that tonight."

Mattias Ekholm had a pair of goals and Nick Bjugstad and Kailer Yamamoto also scored for the Oilers (40-23-8) who have won eight of their last 10.

"It was a crazy game," Bjugstad said. "A lot of disallowed goals, a few in our favour. We definitely need to clean some things up and our urgency early wasn't there, so I think that was the main problem.

"There was just a lot going on. I think our coaching staff and our team would prefer not to have a game like that, but we proved we could rally back and battle through some adversity there."

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Erik Karlsson had two goals and Alexander Barabanov and Steven Lorentz also replied for the Sharks (19-37-15) who saw their losing streak extended to seven games. The Sharks have one win in their last 13 games.

The Sharks looked like they had an early lead just 1:14 in when Tomas Hertl cleanly beat Oilers goalie Jack Campbell with a blast to the top corner, only to have the goal called back via video review on an offside call.

San Jose would get the game's first goal, however, just 5:48 into the first, as a big rebound off of a Hertl shot came out to