Scheifele, Jets rally for OT victory against Oilers

EDMONTON -- Mark Scheifele scored at 3:53 of overtime, and the Winnipeg Jets rallied for a 3-2 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place on Saturday.

Scheifele won it on a redirection after a give-and-go with Josh Morrissey.

“Yeah, great play all around. Good help by ( Kyle Connor ) on the face-off and from there, [Morrissey] made a fantastic pass and just happy to be there,” Scheifele said. “There was zero quit. Right from, obviously, going down early was tough, but we just kept on battling back.

“We didn’t try doing anything too crazy on one shift and just battled back.”

Morrissey had a goal and an assist, and Connor Hellebuyck made 38 saves for the Jets (2-3-0).

“Yeah, well, that first 10 minutes was a little ugly. But what I liked about it, we lost that first 10 minutes badly, but we recovered and we started to skate,” Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. “We were way too much on our heels, giving them way too much respect early.

“I thought when we started to skate, we started to turn things around a little bit.”

Darnell Nurse and Evan Bouchard scored, and Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl each had two assists for the Oilers (1-3-1), who lost their first two home games to start a season for the first time since 2014-15. Stuart Skinner made 24 saves.

McDavid was unable to finish the game because of an apparent injury. He appeared to reach to his left side on a rush up the ice and skated to the bench with 4:20 remaining in the third period and stayed there for the remainder of the game.

“It appeared to be muscular more than anything as I watched the play. We’ll have more information [Sunday],” Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft said. “When he wasn’t available down the stretch and in overtime, it was an opportunity for others to step up.

“I thought it was more him coming up the ice and just something felt off for him. That’s what it looked like from the bench, but I haven’t even rewatched it yet.”

Nurse gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead at 1:25 of the first period, scoring on a wrist shot after a backhand pass in the slot from McDavid.

Bouchard made it 2-0 with a one-timer from the point that beat Hellebuyck stick side at 6:11.

Morrissey cut it to 2-1 on a power play at 10:18. He took a cross-ice pass from Dylan DeMelo and sent a slap shot from the top of the left face-off circle past Skinner’s glove.

Vladislav Namestnikov tied it 2-2 with a short-handed goal at 18:21 of the second period, outracing Skinner to a loose puck and scoring on a wraparound.

"Special teams are huge, and with the power play they have over there, you don't want to give them too many opportunities,” Morrissey said. “For him and ‘Vladdy’ to make that play, they're such smart, crafty players. They compete hard.

“We know how big those short-handed goals can be toward winning a game. It ended up being the tying goal and it was massive."

The Oilers outshot the Jets 13-4 in the third period; Winnipeg held a 4-3 edge in overtime.

“We are just too up and down, not consistent enough right now,” Draisaitl said. “It feels like every mistake we make ends up in the back of our net. We have lots of things to fix.

“It is very frustrating, of course. Our plan was to get off to a good start and we haven’t been able to find that. It is frustrating.”

NOTES: The Oilers are the only team in the NHL to score multiple goals in the first two minutes of a game; Draisaitl scored 42 seconds into a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Oct. 14. … Scheifele padded his franchise lead with his 14th career overtime goal; Ilya Kovalchuk is second with nine. Scheifele has gotten a point in each of his first five games this season (four goals, two assists). … Bouchard had seven shots on goal, and Nurse had six.