THIRD PERIOD
0.0: Game over. The Canucks win 4-3. The late heroics for the Oilers came up short along with the power play in the third period, failing to score on two chances before they got a goal back through Bouchard with the net empty. Boeser and Lindholm record pairs of goals, while Silovs makes 41 saves for the victory. Vancouver takes a 2-1 lead in the series as we look ahead to Game 4 on Tuesday night back here at Rogers Place.
1:16: GOT ONE BACK WITH THE NET EMPTY! After Boeser hit the post on a 200-foot airmail to the empty net, the Oilers come back and gain possession and it goes down as Bouchard's goal after it's bundled in by the Canucks. 4-3.
8:45: Another power play arrives for the Oilers with Ian Cole getting a cross-checking call on Nugent-Hopkins. Gotta make this one count down two goals.
17:10: Zadorov trips up McDavid coming into the zone for an Oilers power play!
20:00: The second period is underway! Calvin Pickard replaces Stuart Skinner in the Oilers' crease after giving up four goals on 15 shots.
SECOND PERIOD
0.0: AFTER 40 | Vancouver 4, Edmonton 2. The Oilers have hit four posts and need a big period to keep themselves from going down 2-1 in the series.
2:25: The puck finds its way through off Lindholm. The centre kicked it up to his stick and shoved home a backhand in front to restore the two-goal lead for Vancouver on a soft cross-check against Nurse. 4-2 Canucks.
3:18: Another cross-checking penalty for the Oilers, but this time it's Darnell Nurse.
7:30: Vancouver goes to the PP off an Ekholm cross-check.
7:57: Drasaitl gets loose on a breakaway created by the saucer pass by McDavid, but SIlovs stands him up for the second time this period by making the blocker save.
10:00: ANOTHER POST! The Oilers cannot catch a break! There were bodies that clashedc at the Vancouver blueline on a break-in attempt, allowing the pass through the seem to Draisaitl to open up but the German put it off the post with his backhand.
15:23: BROWN OFF THE BAR! So close to an equalizer on the one-touch deflection by the winger off the rush.
16:24: DRAISAITL SNEAKS IT SHORT SIDE! From a tight angle, the German takes a pass from Nugent-Hopkins and one-times home a power-play goal from one knee on a shot that Silovs should've had by hugging his near post. Edmonton draws to within one with their second PPG. 3-2 Canucks.