February 28, 2026; San Jose, California, USA; Edmonton Oilers left winger Jack Hyman (18) scores against San Jose Sharks goaltender Yaroslav Askarov (30) during the first period at the SAP Center in San Jose. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Image Shakir Mukamadullin scored the winner with a slap shot midway through the third period as the San Jose Sharks defeated the visiting Edmonton Oilers 5-4 on Saturday.
Michael Misa had a goal and an assist and 12 different players scored for the Sharks, who ended a five-game losing streak, their second-longest of the season.
The NHL’s leading scorer, Connor McDavid, led Edmonton with three assists, while Evan Bouchard had a goal and two assists.
Macklin Celebrini scored 8:34 into the first period for San Jose. Oilers goaltender Connor Ingam, who had 28 saves, lost his stick in the previous sequence. He thought he had cleared the puck far enough out of his zone to retrieve it, but the Sharks’ Will Smith retrieved it and sent it to Celebrini, who leads the team on his 29th of the season.
Misawa Barclay Goodrow also scored in the first period as the Sharks scored three goals in the opening 20 minutes for the second straight time against Edmonton this season.
On Jan. 29, the Oilers scored four unanswered goals, including Bouchard’s tying goal with 59 seconds left and Jack Hyman’s winner with 1:06 left in overtime.
Leon Draisaitl recorded an assist for McDavid on the Oilers’ league-leading power play of the first as Edmonton trailed by two goals heading into the second period.
Bouchard scored his 17th goal of the season to get Edmonton within one goal in the second period, scoring off assists from McDavid and Mattias Ekholm.
The goal gave Bouchard 20 points in his last 10 games. The last defenseman to do that for the Oilers was the legendary Paul Coffey in 1986.
Trent Frederic tied the score at 3:02:54 on a wrister from Matt Savoie, who drove the puck up the ice past Sharks goaltender Yaroslav Askarov and gave the former Boston Bruin an easy finish.
Askarov made 20 saves for San Jose.
The teams then traded goals, with San Jose first regaining the lead when Alexander Wennberg scored on a wrister less than three minutes after Frederic’s equalizer, and Jake Walman leveled the game again for the Oilers less than two minutes later.
The scoring frenzy ended with Mukhamadullin’s winner at 9:27 of the third period after William Eklund found Mukhamadullin at the point for a powerful slap shot.
The Oilers have scored 17 goals in three games since returning from the Olympics, but have now lost two of those contests.
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