Crouse tied it 2-2 just 35 seconds later at 11:59 while on the power play. Michael Carcone played the puck off the end boards from the blue line and it bounced in front to Crouse, where he dropped to one knee and buried a snap shot to the glove side from the low slot.
McDavid put the Oilers in front 3-2 at 12:07, splitting the defense and chasing a bouncing puck before chipping it over Vejmelka’s glove from the edge of the right circle.
Roslovic scored his second of the game at 15:04. After Zach Hyman sent a shot off the crossbar, Roslovic settled the rebound in the left circle and put a snap shot through the five-hole.
“It was a great answer from our team, always good to regain leads,” Roslovic said. “Great short-handed goal and then a great goal by (McDavid). So yeah, as much as we can keep the lead the better.”
Kerfoot said: “We obviously just didn’t have enough of a pushback, in the third especially. We’re down two goals in a game, fighting for a playoff spot against a team who’s also fighting, and we didn’t even make them work for it, didn’t make them earn it. Disappointing. It’s on us.”
McDavid scored his second goal and 40th of the season into an empty net 19:52 of the third period to secure the 5-2 final.
“Goal-scoring is something that has not come easy to me or naturally to me,” McDavid said. “Something that I work at, something that I focus on and set it at the beginning of the year, trying to shoot more pucks and take pucks [to the net]. There’s good nights and bad nights in that area but fortunate to have scored a couple goals in this League.”
NOTES: McDavid is one assist away from his 800th in the NHL. … McDavid recorded his fifth career 40-goal season and surpassed Glenn Anderson (four) for the fourth-most in Oilers history. … Mammoth forward Barrett Hayton left the game nine seconds into the first period with an upper-body injury after colliding with teammate Jack McBain. There was no update postgame. “He will have more exams tomorrow, and we’ll figure out the nature of it,” Tourigny said.