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Talk about a heartbreaking way to lose a game.
The Vancouver Canucks were seconds away from forcing overtime after Dakota Joshua deflected home a Brock Boeser shot with less than two minutes to play.
However, Evan Bouchard abruptly ended the Canucks comeback.
Bouchard, who scored the overtime winner in Game 2, snapped a shot past Arturs Silovs with 39 seconds remaining in the game, giving the Oilers a dramatic 3-2 victory in Game 4.
Looks like we have a long series in store.
This one is going at least six games, with Game 5 taking place at Rogers Arena on Thursday night.
Canucks give Pickard first playoff win
Oilers’ netminder Calvin Pickard had played 460 combined AHL and NHL regular season games prior to tonight.
However, he’d only started in five career AHL playoff games (including two last year), and he’d never started an NHL playoff game, until tonight.
Knowing that, the Canucks must be frustrated that they didn’t generate more shots on Pickard, a problem that’s plagued them this entire postseason.
Vancouver had just 13 shots on Pickard through two periods, and only 21 on net overall.
So far through four games, the Oilers are outshooting the Canucks by more than 40 shots, holding a 124-82 advantage.
The Canucks are no stranger to unheralded goalies stepping up, as they became the first team in 20 years to have three goalies win a postseason game in one playoff run. However, Pickard wasn’t amazing tonight, because he didn’t have to be.
At the other end of the ice, the Canucks wasted a brilliant performance from Silovs. The rookie netminder robbed the Oilers on a number of occasions, and looked assertive coming way out of his net to break up a potential breakaway chance in the third period.
More to come…