On May 10, Evan Bouchard scored at 5:38 of overtime to give the Edmonton Oilers a 4-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 2 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs second round, tying the best-of-seven series at one win apiece.
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It wasn’t the most spectacular of goals. Anything but, in fact: Bouchard pretty much threw the puck on net, and it bounced past Canucks goaltender Arturs Silovs after deflecting off the skate of Vancouver defenceman Ian Cole at the top of the crease.
Suffice to say, Bouchard’s triumphant tally is not a contender for the Oilers’ most memorable playoff overtime goal, although the bar has been set quite high. Since joining the NHL in 1979, Edmonton has scored 28 sudden death goals in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and they’re all special in their own way. Some just stand out a bit more than the rest.
With that said, here are the five greatest overtime goals in Edmonton’s NHL postseason history:
5) Connor McDavid
Oilers at Flames, Western Conference Second Round, Game 5 (5/26/22)
One of the sport’s greatest rivalries was renewed in the second round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs, when the Oilers and Calgary Flames met in the postseason for the first time in 31 years.
The Battle of Alberta took no time to heat up, with Calgary winning a wild first game 9-6. But from that point, the Oilers took the series over. Edmonton won Games 2, 3, and 4, setting up an opportunity to end the series with a victory in Game 5 at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
The game went back and forth. Calgary jumped out to a 2-0 lead, then Edmonton led 3-2, then Calgary led 4-3. When regulation ended, the teams were deadlocked at four goals apiece.
Just five minutes into sudden death, Flames defenceman Noah Hanifin chipped the puck from behind his net up the half wall, but Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl got to the puck first and fed it to Connor McDavid whose wrister from the slot beat Calgary goalie Jacob Markstrom glove side.
The Oilers captain’s goal set off a wild celebration on the visitors’ bench and sent Edmonton to the conference finals for the first time in 16 years.
4) Fernando Pisani
Oilers at Hurricanes, Stanley Cup Final, Game 5 (6/14/06)
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