Horvat’s 4-point game powers Canucks’ comeback win over Oilers

The Vancouver Canucks gained a reputation for giving games away earlier in the season, but now they are starting to steal them back.

“It’s been an interesting year for us, to say the least, and we don’t have any quit in us, which is a real positive thing, even though we have games where we have breakdowns and letdowns,” Miller said.

Ilya Mikheyev also scored for the Canucks (15-15-3) who have won two in a row, also coming from behind to defeat the Seattle Kraken 6-5 in a shootout on Thursday.

“I’m really proud of the guys the way the guys stepped up,” Horvat said. “It’s not an easy back-to-back for us with the time change and travel and for everything going on. So, for us to play the way we did tonight, it obviously wasn’t the best start, but we finished strong and [Collin] Delia was really strong for us tonight.”

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Delia made 31 saves in the Vancouver net.

Derek Ryan and Connor McDavid responded with goals for the Oilers (18-15-2) who have lost four of their last five.

‘If you want to make the playoffs, you can’t keep wasting points’

“It’s unacceptable,” said Oilers forward Zach Hyman. “We had a really good start and were up 2-0 and were the fresher team and then they scored five unanswered. Obviously, you can’t win like that.

“If you want to make the playoffs, you can’t keep wasting points.”

The Oilers opened the scoring midway through the first period when Warren Foegele made a long pass to spring Ryan on a clear breakaway and he was able to wait for Delia to go down and deposit his fifth of the season into the net.

Edmonton made it 2-1 with just 4.1 seconds remaining in the opening frame after Leon Draisaitl dug a puck out and sent a backhand pass across to Hyman, who then fed it through the crease to McDavid for his league-leading 30th goal of the season – the seventh straight season he’s reached the milestone.

McDavid extended his NHL point streak to 15 games with the goal. It is the third time the Oilers captain has had a 15-game point streak, recording 17- and 15-game point streaks last season.