FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 18, 2025
OILERS UNLEASH FOUR UNANSWERED GOALS IN THIRD PERIOD TO TOP MAVERICKS IN SERIES OPENER
Rookie Drew Elliott scores in opening and closing 15 seconds of final frame to bookend goals by veterans Reid Petryk and Alec Butcher
TULSA, Okla. — The Tulsa Oilers, proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks and the AHL’s San Diego Gulls and powered by Community Care, opened the Mountain Division Semi-Final against the Kansas City Mavericks with a 4-2 win at Cable Dahmer Arena on Friday night to take a 1-0 series lead.
Neither team scored in the opening frame, with Jack LaFontaine stopping a penalty shot and Vyacheslav Buteyets halting all 11 chances.
Nathan Knoepke opened the scoring 1:16 into the second frame, blasting a bouncing puck through a screen to beat Buteyets and put the Mavericks up 1-0. Damien Giroux extended the Mavericks lead via an Oilers’ deflection 5:08 into the frame to close the scoring of the period.
Drew Elliott scored his first pro goal 15 seconds into the final frame via a power-play deflection on a Jeremie Biakabutuka slap shot. Reid Petryk followed up 8:49 into the period, hammering a scrambled rebound past LaFontaine to level the game 2-2. Alec Butcher scored the eventual game-winning goal, placing a pass from Andrew Lucas into the upper-right hand corner of the net 31 seconds later to put the Oilers up 3-2. Elliott closed the scoring in the final 15 seconds with an empty-net goal to seal the contest 4-2.
The 4-2 victory places the Oilers up 1-0 in the best-of-seven series. The series continues tomorrow, April 19 at 6:05 p.m. for Game 2 at Cable Dahmer Arena in Independence, Missouri.
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