🚨 Game Over, Energy's Expired: Leon Draisaitl's Unlucky Flub Seals Oilers' Defeat 💔
Final moment: Draisaitl's "Ownership Goal" blocked as Oilers request fails
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The Edmonton Oilers, led by Leon Draisaitl, faced a disheartening loss in Game 3 of their playoff quarterfinal series against the Vegas Golden Knights. As the clock tensed up, optimism for overtime wavered as Vegas launched an unexpected countermove. Ultimately, with just 0.4 seconds left to shatter hopes, Reilly Smith fired a shot from a sharp angle - and, striking Draisaitl's stick, the puck bounced into the net. The Oilers surrendered 3-4, leaving the series at a precarious 1-2 in favor of Las Vegas.
Bleakly, Draisaitl reviewed the heartrending conclusion, "Our defensive game was awful tonight." As the dreaded buzzer echoed, he reflectively assessed his ill-timed dramatic intervention: "at that moment, nothing but bad juju, pure misfortune. The puck ricocheted from my flailing stick, but I was desperatley trying to bar it."
Latest Regulation-Time Goal in Playoff Legends?
Two days ago, Edmonton clinched Game 2 thanks to Draisaitl's overtime goal, yet in a cruel twist of irony, it wasn't his name that lit up the scoreboard this time. According to ESPN records, the last goal ever scored so late in regulation time within NHL playoff history remains unbeaten.
"Unfortunate finale to the game," Draisaitl, who dished assists on goals 1-0 and 3-3, stated, peering ahead: "Tomorrow's a whole new day. It's a positive to be 2-1 up. The day after tomorrow, we're gunning for a 3-1 lead, then it's Vegas next." In another game of the day, Carolina Hurricanes triumphed with a dominant 4-0 win against the Washington Capitals, snatching a 2-1 series lead.
Source: ntv.de, tno/sid
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- In the Oilers' disappointing loss, Leon Draisaitl's unlucky deflection of Reilly Smith's shot sealed the defeat, leaving the series at a precarious 1-2.
- Despite his unfortunate role in the game-winning goal, Draisaitl remains optimistic about the next game, aiming for a 3-1 lead to strengthen their position in the series.
- The Edmonton Oilers, led by Leon Draisaitl, will be facing the Vegas Golden Knights in their next NHL playoff game.
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