{"id":368380,"date":"2025-12-24T07:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368380\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:21:15","slug":"connor-mcdavid-leon-draisaitl-help-oilers-surge-into-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368380\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl help Oilers surge into break"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON, Alberta — Connor McDavid<\/a> had five assists, Leon Draisaitl<\/a> scored three goals and the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> kept rolling into the holiday hiatus with a 5-1 victory<\/a> over the rival Calgary Flames<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Zach Hyman<\/a> had a goal and two assists, Evan Bouchard<\/a> added two assists and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> also scored for the Oilers (19-13-6), who have won four of five and are 8-2-1 in their last 11 games.<\/p>\n

“This is as good as it’s been,” McDavid said. “It was pretty solid overall, special teams were great. … There were a lot of things to like.”<\/p>\n

Mackenzie Weegar scored for the Flames (15-18-4), who won their previous two. Dustin Wolf<\/a> made 34 saves in the loss for Calgary.<\/p>\n

Connor Ingram<\/a>, making a second consecutive NHL start for the first time since early February with Utah, stopped 18 shots to improve to 2-0-0 with the Oilers.<\/p>\n

McDavid extended his point streak to 11 games, with 12 goals and 19 assists during that stretch. It was the 45th time he’s had at least four points in a game, tying Jari Kurri<\/a> for second in Oilers history.<\/p>\n

“You look at the way the team is rolling right now, winning a lot more games, and it starts with those two,” Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch said of McDavid and Draisaitl. “And they’re playing extremely well, and that’s an understatement.”<\/p>\n

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Draisaitl has points in 10 of his last 11 games, with five goals and 19 assists. His three goals moved him past Glenn Anderson<\/a> (417) for third in Oilers history behind Wayne Gretzky<\/a> and Kurri.<\/p>\n

“I know that he wants to play good hockey. That’s all,” McDavid said of Draisaitl. “That’s all that he really cares about. And he’s been doing that.”<\/p>\n

Edmonton took a 5-1 lead on a power play with 14:22 left as Draisaitl netted his third goal of the game and 20th of the season. It was his ninth career regular-season hat trick.<\/p>\n

Draisaitl entered with an eight-game goal drought, his longest regular-season stretch without a goal since February into March of 2021.<\/p>\n

Edmonton came in with the NHL’s best power play (33.3%) and had scored on 42.4% of its opportunities over the last 10 games, with 14 goals on 33 chances. The Oilers were 3 for 6 with the man advantage Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Edmonton is 16-1-3 when scoring first this season and 4-0 in its new alternate jerseys, outscoring opponents by a 26-10 margin.<\/p>\n

Flames forward Mikael Backlund<\/a> has six points in his last three games after totaling just three in his previous 10.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta — Connor McDavid had five assists, Leon Draisaitl scored three goals and the Edmonton Oilers kept…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-368380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}