Oilers rally to beat Avalanche
DENVER -- Drake Caggiula scored a tiebreaking goal with 2:11 left, Jordan Eberle and Leon Draisaitl added insurance goals, and the Edmonton Oilers rallied to beat the Colorado Avalanche 7-4 on Thursday night.
Andrej Sekera had a goal and two assists, Milan Lucic and Zack Kassian also scored, and Laurent Brossoit had six saves in relief of Cam Talbot to lead Edmonton to the win.
The Oilers (40-25-9) tied it early in the third and completed the comeback to move into a tie for second with Anaheim in the Pacific Division. Caggiula beat Jeremy Smith with a backhander at 17:49 and Eberle, who finished with two goals and an assist, scored 1:01 later.
Draisaitl added an empty-net goal in the final minute.
Talbot allowed two goals on Colorado's first four shots and gave up four goals on 15 total shots before being relieved by Brossoit at the start of the third period.
After posting consecutive shutouts and not allowing a goal in 148 minutes, 18 seconds, Talbot has given up eight on his last 33 shots.
Mikko Rantanen had two goals, J.T. Compher and Rene Bourque had a goal each and Nathan MacKinnon finished with two assists for Colorado (20-50-3). Smith had 23 saves.
Brossoit got the win, thanks to a rare third period rally by Edmonton. Kassian tied it when he pounced on a puck sitting in the crease behind Smith and knocked it in at 2:44. Eberle tied it at 4:34 with his 15th of the season.
Rantanen broke a 2-2 tie with his second goal of the game at 4:22 of the second. It was his second multi-goal game of the season; he had his first career hat trick against the Montreal Canadiens on Feb. 7.
Bourque gave Colorado another two-goal lead with his 12th goal at 17:45 of the middle period.
The Avalanche took the lead with two quick goals to start the game. Rantanen scored on Colorado's first shot at 3:20, and Compher made it 2-0 at 9:54 with his second of the season.
Edmonton shook off its slow start with two goals in 57 seconds spanning the first two periods.
Sekera poked a rebound through Smith's legs to cut Colorado's lead to 2-1 at 19:29 of the first, and Lucic scored his 18th of the season 26 seconds into the second period to tie it.
NOTES: Edmonton C Connor McDavid had two assists to increase his NHL scoring lead to six points over Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby (87-81). ... Avalanche D Patrick Wiercioch was scratched for the seventh in a row and F Mikhail Grigorenko for the third time in seven games. ... The Oilers failed to score a power-play goal for the first time in six games. ... Colorado is 2-for-47 on the power-play over the last 19 games.