Oilers beat Senators again
Mcdavid’s winner keeps Edmonton perfect vs. Ottawa
Connor Mcdavid set up three goals by Leon Draisaitl and scored a spectacular game-winner with 6:06 to play as the Edmonton Oilers remained perfect this season against the Ottawa Senators with a 4-2 win on Wednesday.
Draisaitl and Mcdavid, the NHL’S top two scorers, were reunited on the same line for the game and each finished with four points as Edmonton won for the sixth time in nine games (6-1-2) and improved to 8-0 against Ottawa. Mikko Koskinen made 28 saves, including two in close late with the Senators’ goal empty.
Josh Norris and Connor Brown scored for Ottawa, which has lost four of five. Marcus Hogberg made 31 saves in his first start since Feb. 18.
Mcdavid had given Edmonton a 3-2 lead by swooping in from the right wing and beating Hogberg with a flip into the top of the net for his 23rd goal. It came after the Senators were caught in their own end for more than two minutes.
Draisaitl finished off his hat trick with an emptynetter with :01 to play for his 22nd goal. Mcdavid and Draisaitl have combined for 41 points against Ottawa this season.
The teams will finish their nine-game season series here on Thursday night.
While Edmonton won the first seven games by a 34-15 margin, this one was tightly contested with the Senators twice rallying to tie the score.
Maple Leafs 3, Canadiens 2: Jack Campbell made 32 saves for his franchise-record 10th straight victory, Auston Matthews scored his Nhl-leading 28th goal and Toronto beat Montreal. Campbell broke the record he shared with Felix Potvin (199394), Jacques Plante (1970-71) and John Ross Roach (1924-25).
Notes: The Vancouver Canucks said 25 players and coaches have tested positive in a COVID-19 outbreak involving a variant of the virus. The team said Wednesday that 21 players, including three from the taxi squad, and four members of the coaching staff have tested positive, and one other player is considered a close contact . ... The New York Islanders have acquired veteran forwards Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac from the New Jersey Devils for New York’s first-round pick this year, a conditional fourth-round choice next year and forwards A.J. Greer and Mason Jobst.