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Leon Draisaitl and Evan Bouchard each had a goal and an assist for the Edmonton Oilers in a 6-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets Saturday at Rogers Place.
The Oilers exploded out of the gate with four goals in the opening period, including three inside of the game’s opening eight minutes.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Matthew Savoie, Curtis Lazar, and David Tomasek also scored for the Oilers (13-11-5) who have won three of their last four.
Oilers captain Connor McDavid had a pair of assists to climb to second in NHL scoring with 42 points. His 28 assists leads the league.
Gabriel Vilardi and Cole Koepke replied for the Jets (14-13-1) who have lost seven of their last nine since starting netminder Connor Hellebuyck was sidelined with a knee injury that required surgery last month.
Winnipeg’s only two wins since the reigning Hart Trophy winner has been out of the lineup came against teams that currently sit last in their respective conferences: Nashville and Buffalo.
Edmonton’s Stuart Skinner made 19 saves for the win. Winnipeg’s Eric Comrie allowed four goals on 16 shots in the first period. Thomas Milic replaced Comrie to start the second period and made 10 saves.
Takeaways
Jets: Mark Scheifele extended his points streak to seven games with an assist after having a goal called back on a flagrant off-side in the second period. Kyle Connor’s goal scoring streak halted at four games, but he has points in five straight.
Oilers: The 21-year-old rookie Savoie scored his third goal in his last two games and has six this season. In Edmonton’s 9-4 win over Seattle on Thursday, the forward from St. Albert, Alta., became the third youngest player in Oilers history to score both a short-handed and a power-play goal in the same game behind Glenn Anderson and Paul Coffey.
Key moment
Edmonton led 3-0 by 7:24 of the first period when a huge rebound from a Mattias Ekholm shot came across to Savoie, who had an easy tap-in for his sixth of the season. The Oilers scored on three of their first four shots.
Key stat
McDavid and Draisaitl continued to pile up the points. Since the beginning of November, McDavid has 28 points (11G, 17A) in 17 games. Draisaitl has 19 points (7G, 12A) in his last 11 games.
