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Ice hockey: NHL: Draisaitl and Oilers are threatened with playoff exit

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NHL: Draisaitl and Oilers are threatened with playoff exit

Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl (l) in a duel with Ian Cole of the Vancouver Canucks. photo

© DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press/AP/dpa

Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers have to worry about reaching the NHL playoff semi-finals. The Vancouver Canucks have match point in the Canadian duel.

Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers are threatened with elimination in the quarterfinals of the playoffs of the North American professional ice hockey league NHL. In the fifth game of the best-of-seven series against the Canadian rivals Vancouver Canucks, the Oilers lost 2:3 in Vancouver, and Draisaitl and Co. are now behind 2:3 in the series. The sixth game will take place in Edmonton on Saturday evening, and the Canucks will then have their first match point.

Cologne’s Drasaitl set up Evander Kane’s opening goal for the Oilers to make it 1-0. After the interim equalizer, Edmonton took the lead again with 2-1 in the first third, but was unable to contribute anything offensive after that. Vancouver initially equalized in the second period, and in the final period JT Miller scored the winning goal 32 seconds before the end.

In the second game of the evening, the New York Rangers already booked their ticket to the conference finals in the East. The main round winner won 5:3 at the Carolina Hurricanes and won the series early 4:2. Rangers star Chris Kreider played a big part in this, turning a 3-1 deficit into a 4-3 lead with a hat-trick within nine minutes in the final third. Barclay Goodrow scored the final score with a goal into an empty net in the final minute.

The Rangers’ opponents in the fight for victory in the Eastern Conference are either the Florida Panthers or the Boston Bruins. Before the sixth game on Friday evening, the Panthers lead 3-2.