Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl every had a aim and two assists and the Edmonton Oilers gained their sixteenth straight recreation to maneuver inside one in every of tying the NHL document, beating the Nashville Predators 4-1 on Saturday.
Edmonton will try and tie the document set by the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins once they return from the All-Star break to play at Vegas on 6 February. The Oilers matched the 2016-17 Columbus Blue Jackets for the second-longest streak.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Zach Hyman additionally scored and Stuart Skinner made 28 saves to assist Edmonton enhance to 29-15-1. The Oilers are 24-3-0 of their final 27 and have a franchise-record streak of 14 video games with out permitting greater than two targets.
Colton Sissons scored for Nashville. The Predators who’ve misplaced three of 4.
Edmonton opened the scoring on an influence play at 7:55 of the primary interval. Nugent-Hopkins slid into the excessive slot and took a feed from Draisaitl earlier than unleashing a fast wrist shot that beat goalie Kevin Lankinen for his twelfth aim of the season.
The Oilers’ energy play got here by means of once more with 8:21 left within the second. McDavid despatched it throughout to Draisaitl for a one-timer and his twenty third. The aim was Draisaitl’s 800th profession level, making him the fourth-fastest participant to achieve the milestone, doing so in 683 video games.
McDavid made it 3-0 at 9:12 of the third. He swung behind the web and banked the puck off of Lankinen’s bottom from behind the aim line for his twentieth.
Sissons ended Skinner’s shutout bid with 6:33 throughout a scramble in entrance of the web, the primary aim allowed by Edmonton in 158 minutes.
Hyman capped the scoring with an empty-netter for his thirtieth of the season.
