Edmonton Oil Kings slip past Tri-City Americans in OT
Kobe Mohr scored the winning goal with 37 seconds left in overtime to lead the Edmonton Oil Kings to a 5-4 victory Saturday over the Tri-City Americans at Toyota Center.
The Americans (14-8-2-0, 30 points) are 1-1-1-0 three games into a nine-game homestand. They host Vancouver on Wednesday to start a three-game Thanksgiving week of action.
The Oil Kings (10-10-2-1, 22 points), who got two goals from Mohr and three assists from Lane Bauer, won their sixth overtime game this season.
Juuso Välimäki scored twice for Tri-City — the first goal of the game just 1:51 into the action, and the team’s third to pull to within 4-3 in the third period.
Michael Rasmussen scored his league-leading 20th goal of the season at 16:28 of the third period as the Americans rallied to tie the score.
Pressuring late in the game, Välimäki rang the puck off the cross bar with 1:52 remaining in regulation.
Vladislav Lukin also scored for Tri-City, while Tyler Sandhu handed out two assists. Morgan Geekie, playing in his 100th Western Hockey League game, had an assist.
Tri-City’s Evan Sarthou, in his fourth start of the season, finished with 36 saves. He is 3-0-1-0 this season.
Oil Kings 5, Americans 4 (OT)
Edmonton | 1 | 3 | 0 1 | — | 5 |
Tri-City | 1 | 1 | 2 0 | — | 4 |
First — 1, TC, Välimäki 5 (Sandhu, Geekie), 1:51 (pp). 2, Edm, Kehler 6 (Koch, Fix-Wolansky), 11:42. Penalties — Mohr, Edm (slashing), 1:22; Välimäki, TC (unsportsmanlike conduct), 8:19; Irving, Edm (hooking), 12:11.
Second — 3, TC, Lukin 12 (Välimäki), :53. 4, Edm, Mohr 2 (Gruninger, Bauer), 13:53. 5, Edm, Berg 2 (Fix-Wolansky, Bauer), 16:14 (pp). 6, Edm, Gorda 1 (Robertson, Berg), 16:33. Penalties — Rutledge, TC (boarding), 2:19; Gerla, Edm, major (fighting), 15:26; Yorke, TC, minor-major (instigator, fighting, misconduct), 15:26; Kehler, Edm (slashing), 18:09..
Third — 7, TC, Välimäki 6 (Sandhu, Rasmussen), 12:59. 8, TC, Rasmussen 20 (Wotherspoon, Coghlan), 16:28. Penalties — Irving, Edm (slashing), 3:12; Gruninger, Edm (unsportsmanlike conduct), 12:15; O’Reilly, TC (unsportsmanlike conduct), 12:15; Olson, TC (roughing), 18:53.
Overtime — 9, Edm, Mohr 3 (Bauer), 4:23. Penalties — None.
Shots — Edm 12-16-9-4 — 41. TC 15-4-11-1 — 31. Power plays — Edm 1-5. TC 1-5. Goalies — Edm, Dea 9-6-0-0 (31 shots-27 saves). TC, Sarthou 3-0-1-0 (41-36). Referees — Jeff Ingram and Duncan Bow. A — 3,754.
This story was originally published November 19, 2016 at 10:23 PM with the headline "Edmonton Oil Kings slip past Tri-City Americans in OT."