Raymond's OT Wrist Shot Steals It for Detroit in Edmonton

Lucas Raymond scored the overtime winner on a wrist shot to give Detroit a 4-3 victory over Edmonton on October 27. The Red Wings clawed back from a 3-2 deficit with under four minutes left in regulation, then closed it out in the extra frame.

Edmonton looked like it had control early. Vasily Podkolzin deflected home his eighth goal of the season at 6:10 of the first — Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid combining for the assists, McDavid now sitting at 26 helpers on the year — and the Oilers carried that 1-0 lead into the second. Detroit answered in the middle frame when Viktor Arvidsson snapped home his fifth of the season at 8:35, with Lucas Raymond and Alex DeBrincat picking up the assists to tie it 1-1. That's where things stood heading into the third.

The third period was a five-goal sprint that looked like it was going to break Edmonton's way. Isaac Howard scored his first NHL goal at 4:18 — a snap shot set up by Kasperi Kapanen and Colton Dach — to put the Oilers back in front 2-1. Thirty seconds later, Emmitt Finnie answered with a wrist shot of his own, his fifth of the year, assisted by Arvidsson, knotting it at 2-2. Then Colton Dach tipped one home at 16:32 — his first goal of the season — off feeds from Ryan Shea and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to put Edmonton up 3-2 with under four minutes to play. It looked like the Oilers had it. Dylan Larkin had other ideas. At 18:43, Larkin wired a wrist shot past Tristan Jarry — Raymond and Moritz Seider with the assists — to force overtime at 3-3. That sequence, two goals in 2:11 to close the third, looks like the moment Detroit seized the game's spine.

In overtime, Raymond did what he'd been setting up all night. After collecting two assists in regulation, he finished it himself — a wrist shot that ended it at 4-3. Michal Postava made 25 saves on 28 shots for Detroit to earn the win. Jarry was solid in a losing effort, stopping 26 of 29. The story of the night was Detroit's refusal to fold: down a goal with 3:28 left in regulation, they tied it, then won it. Arvidsson finished with a goal and an assist, Raymond with two assists and the OT winner, and Dach led Edmonton's top performers with a goal and an assist. On paper this was a tight, evenly-matched game — in practice, it appears Detroit simply wanted the extra point more when it mattered.