Oilers set NHL playoff record with 5th straight comeback win - ESPN

LAS VEGAS — What appeared to be another slow start became another comeback win for the Edmonton Oilers in the postseason.

Allowing two goals within the first 10 minutes created the illusion that the Oilers could once again fall to open a series. Instead? They scored four unanswered goals in a 4-2 win Tuesday against the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference semifinals at T-Mobile Arena.

For the Oilers, not only was it their fifth consecutive comeback win this postseason, but was also the first time in nearly a full calendar year they won the first game of a series.

«I mean, you don't want to be down in five games,» Oilers forward Zach Hyman said of his team's comeback streak. «Again, we have the experience that we can come back and fight our way out of it. Yeah, you have to have that belief in your group when you are down and come back to win five in a row like that.»

Edmonton's comeback was in lieu of a first period that saw Ryan Nugent-Hopkins receive a double minor for high-sticking that led to Vegas captain Mark Stone scoring only 39 seconds into a power play for a 1-0 lead. Stone doubled that margin with 10:57 remaining in the first when he received a pass from Jack Eichel and created space by deking a defender before firing a shot past Calvin Pickard for a 2-0 advantage.

That's when Game 1 became something of a jarring juxtaposition for the Golden Knights, who went from scoring a pair of quick goals to gradually watching the Oilers plot their way toward taking the series lead.

It started when veteran Oilers superstar duo Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid made a pair of cross-ice passes with the latter finding veteran forward Corey Perry for a goal that trimmed the lead to 2-1 with 3:34 remaining.

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