No all-Ontario ‘match-up’ after Leafs drop last game

McDavid hits 100-point mark

EDMONTON, Alberta, April 10, (AP): Connor McDavid hit the 100-point mark and Jordan Eberle recorded a hat trick as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-2 in the final regular-season game on the NHL schedule.

McDavid had a pair of assists and ended the season with 30 goals and 70 assists in 82 games. He is the only player to reach 100 points this season. Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby and Chicago’s Patrick Kane tied for second with 89 apiece.

Edmonton will open the playoffs at home against the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday.

Drake Caggiula and Leon Draisaitl also scored for the red-hot Oilers, who have won 12 of their last 14 games and nine in a row on home ice.

There will be no Battle of Ontario in the first round of the NHL playoffs.

James van Riemsdyk scored twice, but Toronto dropped its regular-season finale to Columbus and will face the Washington Capitals in the opening round of its first postseason since 2013.

Curtis McElhinney made 29 saves, but Toronto let a 2-0 lead melt away in a porous second period.

Matt Calvert, Josh Anderson and Cam Atkinson scored in the comeback for Columbus. Joonas Korpisalo stopped 30 shots for the Jackets, who are set for a first-round matchup against Pittsburgh.

Had they earned even a point, the Leafs would have faced the Ottawa Senators in the first round, but instead they get the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Capitals.

In Philadelphia, Bryan Bickell scored in the shootout of his final game before retiring because of multiple sclerosis, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 Sunday in the season finale for both teams.

During a stoppage in the first period, fans and players from both teams gave Bickell a standing ovation and stick tap. The 31-year-old three-time Stanley Cup champion was diagnosed with MS in November but returned to hockey in February.

His shootout goal was the first of his career in his second attempt and set up Brock McGinn’s winner on the final shot of Carolina’s season. McGinn also scored twice in regulation.

It was an emotional night for Bickell, who had his wife and daughter watching from the stands. It was an otherwise meaningless game between two teams who fell short of preseason expectations to reach the playoffs. New York Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss (1) makes a glove save in front of Ottawa Senators left wing Alexandre Burrows (14) in the first period of an NHL

hockey game on April 9, in New York. (AP)