Blackhawks beat Oilers, 5-2, for first win of 2024-25 season
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Blackhawks will go into the final game of their season-opening road trip with win on their ledger.
Teuvo Teravainen had two goals and two assists and Connor Bedard had a goal and two assists, as the Blackhawks (1-1-1) beat the defending Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers, 5-2, on the road late Saturday night for their first win of the season.
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Chicago is opening 2024-25 on a four-game Western Conference road trip. After losing to Utah in regulation on Tuesday and to Winnipeg in overtime on Friday, the Blackhawks broke through in Edmonton on Saturday.
They play the Flames in Calgary on Tuesday night before hosting the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night at the United Center to begin their home portion of the schedule.
Seth Jones also had a goal and two assists for the Blackhawks on Saturday in his 800th career NHL game, and Philipp Kurashev scored the other goal. Petr Mrazek stopped 35 shots in net.
Teravainen, meanwhile, already has three goals and five points in what’s so far been an impactful return to the team that drafted him. The Blackhawks took Teravainen in the first round (18th overall) of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. He played his first three seasons with the Blackhawks, helping them to a Stanley Cup title in 2014-15, before being traded to the Carolina Hurricanes after the 2015-16 season.
Teravainen signed a three-contract in free agency this summer to return to Chicago.
Corey Perry and Leon Draisaitl scored Saturday for the Oilers, who fell to 0-2 to start the season after reaching Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final last season before losing out to the Florida Panthers. Edmonton has been outscored 11-2 in its first two games.
Calvin Pickard finished with 15 saves for the Oilers.
Takeaways
Blackhawks: Taylor Hall had an assist, giving him eight points (2G, 6A) in 12 career games against Oilers, who drafted him first overall in 2010. There were four former first overall picks playing in the game: Hall and Bedard for the Blackhawks and Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for Edmonton.
Oilers: Oilers defenseman Brett Kulak played in his 500th career NHL game. The 30-year-old has been a mainstay since arriving from Montreal at the 2022 NHL trade deadline, playing in all 184 regular season and 53 playoff games that he could.
Key moment
The Blackhawks took a two-goal lead with six minutes to play in the second period, as Bedard fired a shot glove-side past Pickard for his first of the season.
Key stat
Draisaitl has a 16-game point streak (13 goals, 18 assists) against Chicago dating to Oct. 28, 2018, and passed teammate Connor McDavid (15-game streak against New Jersey) for the NHL’s longest active point streak against one opponent.
Up Next
The Oilers host the Flames on Sunday and the Blackhawks wrap up a four-game road trip at Calgary on Tuesday.
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