SAN JOSE, CA \u2013 Five points for the captain and two points earned in\u00a0Sili-Conn Valley.<\/p>\n
Connor\u00a0McDavid recorded five points, including his third hat trick of the season, as the Edmonton Oilers’ power play went 3-for-3 on Wednesday to help them claim two points & stay atop the Pacific Division with a 5-2 win over the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center.<\/p>\n
“It was a big two points,” McDavid said. “I thought everybody played really well, and personally, I got a couple of bounces early, which always helps. It was a fun game.”<\/p>\n
McDavid had a hand in each of Edmonton’s three goals with the man advantage, scoring his 45th of the season & 100th career power-play goal and assisting on tallies for\u00a0Vasily Podkolzin & Jack Roslovic.<\/p>\n
The captain scored twice at even strength in the second, including a dazzling goal that made it 4-2 off the rush for his second goal of the night, before getting a bounce off a stick on a two-on-one that beat Alex\u00a0Nedeljkovic five-hole for his 15th career hat trick.<\/p>\n
McDavid now leads the NHL’s scoring race by six points over Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov with 133 points (46G, 86A) in 79 games.<\/p>\n
Jack Roslovic and Vasily Podkolzin each had a goal & an assist, while Evan Bouchard picked up two helpers to become the second defenceman in Oilers franchise history alongside Paul\u00a0Coffey to surpass 90 points.<\/p>\n
Bouchard leads\u00a0all NHL blueliners with 21 goals and 70 assists in 79 games this season.<\/p>\n
“We knew we had to bounce back from last game,” Bouchard said. “Playing a back-to-back is not always easy, especially against a team like San Jose, who’s fighting for the playoffs. So it’s a good win for us to sit on for a few days.”<\/p>\n
The Oilers will keep hold of first place in the Pacific Division as they head to Los Angeles to close out their three-game road trip with a Saturday afternoon tilt with the Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, CA \u2013 Five points for the captain and two points earned in\u00a0Sili-Conn Valley. Connor\u00a0McDavid recorded five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-591964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}