Connor McDavid had two objectives and an help on his twenty sixth birthday, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Sharks 7-1 on Friday night time in San Jose.
Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins every had a objective and two assists, and Klim Kostin, Jesse Puljujarvi, and Ryan McLeod additionally scored for the Oilers. Jack Campbell made 25 saves in Edmonton’s second-straight win.
“We definitely must maintain constructing on our recreation,” McDavid mentioned. “Two good ones in a row, clearly, [and] we maintain speaking about consistency, in order that’s a very good signal.”
Oskar Lindblom scored for San Jose, and Kaapo Kahkonen completed with 34 saves. The Sharks have misplaced 4 of their final 5 video games (1-3-1).
“We simply stunk. We stunk on the powerplay. We stopped on the penalty kill. We stunk 5-on-5. Our ahead’s stunk, [and] our defencemen stunk,” Sharks coach David Quinn mentioned. “The solely man that did not stink was our goalie. And that hasn’t occurred all yr, and over 82 video games, one thing like that is going to occur. You can transfer previous it fairly shortly.”
McDavid confirmed off his arms by streaking down the center of the ice on the ability play with a fast shot that beat Kahkonen over the far aspect to offer the Oilers a 1-0 lead with 9:01 left within the first interval.
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McDavid pots a pair as Oilers crush Sharks
A 3 level night time together with two objectives on his twenty sixth birthday was an awesome present for the Oilers Connor McDavid, as Edmonton defeated San Jose 7-1.
Kostin doubled the lead together with his eighth of the season with 1:46 remaining within the opening interval.
“It was 2-0 after the primary interval. Both groups have been competing exhausting,” Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft mentioned. “We had some issues go our means tonight, however they are a well-coached proud group. We have been lucky on some issues tonight, however we executed the way in which we wished to and got here away with two factors with a number of contributions up and down our lineup.”
Draisaitl discovered McDavid on the ability play with a candy again door move behind his again for his thirty seventh to make it 3-0 at 8:22 of the second.
Mattias Janmark discovered Nugent-Hopkins from behind the online for a short-handed objective after Sharks defenceman Matt Benning could not maintain the puck within the offensive zone. It was Nugent-Hopkins’ twenty first objective of the season, making it 4-0.
McDavid stole the puck on a forecheck and located Draisaitl within the slot for his twenty fourth objective with 2:05 left within the second.
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Puljujarvi and McLeod scored 34 seconds aside within the third interval to make it 7-0 with 7:14 to go.
Lindblom’s tip-in on a shot by Matt Benning ended Campbell’s shutout bid with just below 5 minutes left.
“That’s form of their what they’re actually good at really, they search for that,” Campbell mentioned. “The man had his head up the entire means and made a pleasant tip.”
The Sharks completed the sport 0 for 4 on the ability play.
“I simply suppose the sport received away from us,” Sharks captain Logan Couture mentioned. “I believe too many shifts the place it snowballed, and we made errors, and so they ended up behind our internet. When you get down three or 4 objectives, you wish to exit and make a distinction within the recreation, and it is human nature to attempt to do an excessive amount of.”
Leon Draisaitl performed in his 600th profession recreation.
The Oilers subsequent face the Golden Knights in Las Vegas on Saturday night time.
