CHICAGO (AP) — Leon Draisaitl had two objectives and an help, serving to the Edmonton Oilers prime the slumping Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 on Wednesday evening for his or her third straight win.
Connor McDavid, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Mattias Janmark every had a purpose and an help as Edmonton improved to 2-0 in Chicago this season. Brett Kulak had two assists, and Stuart Skinner made 21 saves.
The Blackhawks misplaced their eighth consecutive recreation and dropped to 2-10-4 of their final 16 total. Max Domi had two objectives, and MacKenzie Entwistle and Boris Katchouk additionally scored.
McDavid received Edmonton some respiratory room when he skated previous Chicago defenseman Jack Johnson on the blue line and beat Arvid Soderblom stick facet, making it 3-1 along with his team-best 18th purpose 1:18 into the third interval.
After Janmark completed a 2-on-1 with Nugent-Hopkins halfway by the third, Domi and Entwistle scored 19 seconds aside to get Chicago again within the recreation.
However Edmonton’s two largest stars went proper again to work. McDavid arrange Draisaitl’s fifteenth purpose on a one-timer with 4:39 left.
Chicago made one final push, closing to 5-4 on Domi’s second power-play purpose with 1:11 left. However the Blackhawks couldn’t give you the tying rating within the remaining moments.
Edmonton, which performs once more Thursday evening at Minnesota, jumped in entrance with two objectives within the second.
Skating in his five hundredth NHL recreation, Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse discovered Draisaitl along side the web for a straightforward tap-in purpose 54 seconds into the interval. It was Draisaitl’s 14th of the season.
A streaking Nugent-Hopkins made it 2-0 at 9:48 along with his tenth purpose, changing a pleasant feed by Jesse Puljujarvi from behind the web.
Edmonton additionally had a purpose overturned within the first due to goaltender interference on Zach Hyman, who scored after he pushed Chicago defenseman Seth Jones into Soderblom. Hyman additionally despatched a shot off the within of the publish within the opening interval.
Chicago received one again when Johnson’s lengthy shot went off Katchouk and into the web 14:33 into the second. It was Katchouk’s first level in his twelfth recreation of the season.
WORTH NOTING
Blackhawks defenseman Jarred Tinordi (hip) and ahead Sam Lafferty (again) had been scratched due to accidents. … Oilers ahead Tyler Benson made his season debut. He had been sidelined by a knee damage.
UP NEXT
Oilers: On the Minnesota Wild on Thursday evening.
Blackhawks: On the New York Rangers on Saturday evening.
