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CALGARY Colton Sissons Jersey , Alberta (AP) — Elias Lindholm is having a breakout season with Calgary.Lindholm scored twice, including the tiebreaking goal midway through the third period, and the Flames rallied from two down to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 on Saturday night.After deflecting Noah Hanifin’s point shot into Mikko Koskinen’s pads, Lindholm knocked in the rebound at 9:10 of the third. He added an empty-netter for his team-leading 11th goal — his career high is 17 set in 2014-15.“He’s a high-end player. He has been his whole life,” Flames coach Bill Peters said. “Takes faceoffs, kills penalties, can play 4-on-4, plays on the power play. He touches the game in a lot of different areas.”Lindholm, acquired from Carolina in the offseason, was drafted fifth overall in 2013, one spot ahead of linemate Sean Monahan.Monahan, with a goal and an assist, and Derek Ryan also scored for Calgary.Connor McDavid and Alex Chiasson scored for Edmonton, which has lost five of six.Down 2-1 entering the third period, Calgary tied it at 2:40 when Monahan rattled home a rebound of Travis Hamonic’s shot.It was the sixth time the Flames have come back to win when trailing after two periods, most in the NHL.“A lot of times we play unreal in the third, but you don’t want to chase the game too much,” Lindholm said. “It’s not going to work all the time to be down before the third. It’s something we need to work on.”The Flames were down 2-0 before Ryan ended a 14-game scoring drought with his second of the season at 16:23 of the second period.Until then Conor Timmins Jersey Womens , the Flames’ listless power play had given up just as many shots as it had generated, with two of the three allowed being breakaways.Standing tall in net was David Rittich, who improved to 6-1-0. Included in his 24 stops were three breakaways — two for Leon Draisaitl and one by Jujhar Khaira.“It’s my job. It’s a great feeling, but that’s why I’m in the net — making saves,” Rittich said.With fellow goalie Mike Smith struggling, Rittich delivered the type of quality start Calgary needed after dropping three of its previous four games.“He was huge. There were a couple breakaways and odd-man rushes. He made some big stops. When that happens it makes you want to go hard,” Monahan said.Koskinen, who turned aside 33 shots, fell to 4-2-0.“It felt like we ran out of gas a little bit. We spent the whole third in our own zone,” he said.Edmonton increased its lead to 2-0 at 3:49 of the second when Draisaitl set up McDavid on a perfectly executed 2-on-1. Rittich had no chance to get across and stop the one-timer.The Oilers took the lead 2:29 into the game while short-handed. Playing against his former team, Chiasson broke in off the wing and slipped a backhand through Rittich’s pads.It was a physical game, especially early, with Mikael Backlund and McDavid wrestling at one point. Sam Bennett and Darnell Nurse squared off after Bennett, on the first shift of the game, rocked the Oilers defenseman with a heavy hit.Matthew Tkachuk was in the middle of the action, getting jumped by Zack Kassian late in the first period, which drew a triple minor for roughing and a misconduct on the Oilers’ rugged forward.“We had an opportunity to go ahead two or three and that may have changed the game, on some of the breakaways Ian Cole Jersey Womens , but their goaltender played well,” Edmonton coach Todd McLellan said.“Too many penalties. Their top players didn’t have to play a lot of hard minutes. They were on the power play the whole first two (periods), so by the time you get to the third, they have some gas left in their tanks and they certainly took it to us.”NOTES: Dillon Dube (concussion) returned to the lineup after missing four games. … Ryan Spooner made his debut for Edmonton after being acquired Friday in a trade with the New York Rangers for Ryan Strome. Spooner played left wing on a line with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ty Rattie. … Right wing Patrick Russell made his NHL debut for the Oilers.UP NEXTOilers: Return home to play Vegas on Sunday night.Flames: Continue their homestand Monday night against Vegas. Connor McDavid managed two assists in the Oilers' home opener against the Bruins, beating the visitors 3-2, marking the start of a rather unusual season for Edmonton.For starters, the win finally put the team past the .500 mark for the first time in the regular season. To do it in front of a local crowd at Rogers Place must have been as auspicious as the victory itself, with the Oilers being the final team to host a regular season game. They endured their first four games on the road, including a loss to the New Jersey Devils in Sweden, having survived the junket on both sides of the pond with a 2-2 track record.advertisingBut now, that the Oilers are on more familiar turf, they now have to worry about depth in terms of offense. If not for Connor McDavid, who managed two assists against the Bruins in their latest victory, the Oilers would still be searching for their first win. bruinsdaily.comSo far, McDavid has had a hand in 11 of 13 goals scored by the Oilers, having either assisted or shot pucks over the red line. After losing to the Devils 5-2 and the Bruins 4-1 in their first two games, McDavid's contribution to their current streak has been critical. He nabbed an assist and the winning goal in overtime over the Rangers and garnered four points (two goals and an assist) in the Oiler's 5-4 win over the Jets.advertisingThe big question is when the rest of the squad will step up and take some pressure off the 21-year-old captain, arguably the best player in the NHL today.It's an easy cop-out to claim that the situation is similar to what the team experienced back in the 1980s when they won an armful of Stanley Cups. One could legitimately claim that much of those triumphs were attributable to Wayne Gretzky Philipp Grubauer Jersey Womens , the best hockey player in the world at the time. Without him, the Oilers probably wouldn't have won four league championships.But, while Gretzky still remains as the all-time points leader in the NHL, those accomplishments would not have been possible with some strong support from players like Jari Kurri, who actually scored more goals than Gretzky when they shared the same shifts. There were also superlative performances from the likes of Glenn Anderson, Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr, and especially Marc Messier who helped Edmonton win their last Stanley Cup in 1990 鈥?two years after Gretzky was traded to the聽Los Angeles Kingsadvertising sportingnews.comMcDavid isn't just on top of the team leaderboard, he totally dominates it, credited with four goals so far, as well as seven assists. His performance is much to the detriment of other players who should be doing better, although second and third spots respectively are taken by Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with two goals and five assists, followed by Leon Draisadl with two goals and four assists.But considering that McDavid and Nugent-Hopkins play on the same first line with Ty Rattie (with one goal and one assist), that shift alone has been responsible for more than half of the scoring output. The second line with Dreisadl, Jesse Puljujarvi, and Tobias Reider (playing in place of an injured Drake Caggiula) have contributed less than a quarter of team goals thus far. The third line led by Milan Lucic has two goals, followed by a goose egg for the team's fourth line.advertisingFortunately, it helps that Edmonton's defense http://www.officialoilers.com/authentic-adidas-connor-mcdavid-jersey , which has been pointed out by pundits as lacking depth, is stepping up, as Darnell Nurse so far has been a positive factor 鈥?and the defenseman to have a goal so far. It's also helped that goaltender Cam Talbot continues to be solid this season with a .906 save percentage and a goals-against average of 2.69. Not great, but certainly reliable.At this writing, there are nine players on the active roster that still have yet to register an assist or goal, as if coasting on the results of McDavid, whose average ice time is roughly less than 24 minutes, more than any other forward in the league. He certainly has age on his side to absorb a lot of the workload, although no doubt fans are still waiting for the likes of Reider, Ryan Strome, Kyle Brodziak, and Zack Kassian to show up.advertisingLet's hope it's soon, given that the Oilers will hardly be taking on any slouches in their schedule anytime soon. The face the Predators on Sunday and the short-term schedule is just as grueling. Facing Pittsburgh, Washington and Minnesota鈥攁ll of whom did well in the playoffs and show no signs of slowing down鈥攚ill be a true test for the Oilers, unless they can take at least a few degrees of heat off McDavid.