The Oilers beat the Sharks 3-2 despite losing Leon Draisaitl to an undisclosed injury

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jeff Skinner tipped in the tiebreaking goal late in the second period and the Edmonton Oilers overcame an injury to Leon Draisaitl and beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Thursday night.

Skinner scored just a few minutes after Draisaitl went to the locker room with an undisclosed injury. He never returned to the game. Coach Kris Knoblauch said after the game that he had no update on the severity of the injury.

Connor Brown and Viktor Arvidsson also scored to give the Oilers their third straight win. Calvin Pickard made 27 saves.

Edmonton kept pace with Los Angeles in the race for second place in the Pacific Division and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. The Oilers trail the Kings by two points headed into their game Saturday night in Los Angeles.

Jack Thompson and Tyler Toffoli scored for San Jose. Georgi Romanov made 35 saves.

Oilers: Edmonton is already without star Connor McDavid, who has been sidelined since getting hurt March 20 and can ill afford another key injury with the playoffs starting in a little more than two weeks. Draisaitl, who leads the NHL with 52 goals this season, missed four games last month with an undisclosed injury.

Sharks: San Jose is winless in its last four games and remains in last place in the NHL after losing the first of three meetings with the Oilers in the final two weeks of the season.

Pickard slid across his crease to make a key save against Collin Graf from point-blank range in the final minute to preserve the 3-2 lead.

Mario Ferraro had two assists and has points in three straight games for San Jose. It was his second multipoint game of the season with the other coming Jan. 23 against Nashville.

The Oilers visit Los Angeles on Saturday night and the Sharks host Seattle.

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San Jose Sharks defenseman Timothy Liljegren (37) passes the puck next to Edmonton Oilers left wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

San Jose Sharks center Noah Gregor (9) collides with Edmonton Oilers defenseman Jake Walman (96) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

San Jose Sharks goaltender Georgi Romanov (31) makes a save during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Edmonton Oilers left wing Zach Hyman (18) dives after the puck next to San Jose Sharks defenseman Henry Thrun (3) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Edmonton Oilers left wing Viktor Arvidsson, right, celebrates with center Leon Draisaitl (29) after scoring a goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the San Jose Sharks, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Edmonton Oilers center Jeff Skinner (53) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the San Jose Sharks, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (AP) — Anger and outrage gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through apartment buildings and blasted a playground.

More than 70 were wounded in the attack last Friday evening on Kryvyi Rih. The children were playing on swings and in a sandbox in a tree-lined park at the time. Bodies were strewn across the grass.

“We are not asking for pity,” Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the city administration, wrote on Telegram as Kryvyi Rih mourned. “We demand the world’s outrage.”

The U.N. Human Rights Office in Ukraine said it was the deadliest single verified strike harming children since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. It was also one of the deadliest attacks so far this year.

Ukraine has consented to a ceasefire proposed weeks ago by Washington. But Russia is still negotiating with the United States its terms for accepting a truce in the more than three-year war.

U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the continued fighting, and Ukrainian officials want him to compel Putin to stop. Trump vowed during his election campaign last year to bring a swift end to the war.

“We’re talking to Russia. We’d like them to stop,” Trump told reporters Sunday. “I don’t like the bombing.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed Monday that Putin supports a ceasefire proposed by Trump but wants Russian conditions to be met.

“President Putin indeed backs the ceasefire idea, but it’s necessary to first answer quite a few questions,” Peskov said.

In Kryvyi Rih, teacher Iryna Kholod, 59, remembered Arina and Radyslav, both 7 years old and killed in Friday's strike, as being “like little suns in the classroom.”

Radyslav, she said, was proud to be part of a school campaign collecting pet food for stray animals. “He held the bag like it was treasure. He wanted to help,” she told The Associated Press.

After Friday evening, "two desks in my classroom were empty forever,” Kholod said, adding that she still has unopened birthday gifts for them.

“How do I tell parents to return their textbooks? How do I teach without them?” she asked.

Russian missile and drone tactics continue to evolve, making it harder to shoot them down, Yurii Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force command, said on national television.

Russia's Shahed drones have undergone significant upgrades, while Moscow is also modernizing its ballistic missiles, he said.

Only the U.S. Patriot missile defense system can help prevent attacks like the one in Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy said late Sunday.

He said he had instructed his defense and foreign affairs ministers to "work bilaterally on air defense, especially with the United States, which has sufficient potential to help stop any terror.”

Ukraine will send a team to Washington this week to begin negotiations on a new draft of a deal that would give the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable mineral resources, Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko told The Associated Press.

Failure to conclude a mineral deal has hamstrung Ukrainian efforts to secure pledges of continuing U.S. military support.

Britain's Ministry of Defense and the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, a think tank, say Russia's battlefield progress on the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line has slowed since November. But on Saturday night, Russia launched its biggest aerial attack on Ukraine in nearly a month.

Both sides are thought to be preparing for a renewed spring-summer military campaign.

In Kryvyi Rih on Monday, Nataliia Slobodeniuk recalled her student Danylo Nikitskyi, 15, as “a spark” who energized the classroom and helped organize school trips and other occasions.

Danylo died alongside his girlfriend, Alina Kutsenko, also 15. “They were holding hands,” said Roman Nikitskyi, Danylo’s father.

“If Danylo was going, half the class went too,” the 55-year-old teacher said. “That’s how loved he was.”

She choked up as she spoke of her feeling of powerlessness after the attack.

“You live through their joy, their sadness,” she told AP. “And now, this pain, it tears you apart. And you realize there’s nothing you can do. Nothing to fix it. You just carry the pain forever.”

An air raid alert interrupted a planned memorial ceremony in the city — a reminder of the continuing threat for civilians.

The frustration hit home for Nataliia Freylikh, the schoolteacher of 9-year-old Herman Tripolets, who was killed in last Friday's attack. Tripolets’ funeral procession began at the child’s school, where teachers, classmates, and families gathered in silence. Nearly one hundred people stood grief-stricken together.

“Even mourning him properly is impossible,” Freylikh said.

From there, the mourners walked to the church for the funeral liturgy — and bid a final farewell to the children who never made it home.

Novikov reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.

Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, dead bodies lie on the ground after a Russian missile hit apartment houses and a playground, killing 14 civilians including six children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, dead bodies lie on the ground after a Russian missile hit apartment houses and a playground, killing 14 civilians including six children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, dead bodies lie on the ground after a Russian missile hit apartment houses and a playground, killing 14 civilians including six children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Flowers and toys left in the play area to commemorate victims killed in Russia's missile attack on Friday, near apartment buildings, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo)

Flowers and toys left on a swing seat to commemorate victims killed in Russia's missile attack on Friday, at a children play area near the damaged apartment buildings, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo)