Draisaitl scores twice, assists another to lead Oilers to 5-1 win over Predators

Leon Draisaitl scored 2 goals and assisted different to pb the Edmonton Oilers to a 5-1 triumph implicit the Nashville Predators connected Thursday night.

Viktor Arvidsson, Corey Perry and Zach Hyman besides scored, and Calvin Pickard made 26 saves for the Oilers, who person won 3 of their past four. Edmonton played its archetypal crippled since losing squad skipper Connor McDavid to an ankle wounded successful the archetypal play of Monday night’s 6-1 nonaccomplishment to the Blue Jackets.

Filip Forsberg scored, and Juuse Saros made 24 saves for the Predators.

Playing successful his archetypal vocation NHL game, Edmonton’s Noah Philp picked up the secondary assistance connected Perry’s first-period extremity for his archetypal NHL point.

Takeaways

Oilers: After scoring a career-high 54 goals past season, Hyman had not scored this play anterior to beating Saros with 7:14 remaining successful the game. With McDavid sidelined for the adjacent 2-3 weeks, Thursday’s extremity could jump-start Hyman’s accumulation astatine a clip erstwhile the Oilers need others to lend connected the scoresheet.

Predators: Nashville was 3-0-1 successful its past 4 games anterior to Thursday night’s dreadful performance. If the Predators anticipation to ascent retired of their early-season hole, they request to find accordant scoring speech from Forsberg, who leads the squad with 5 goals.

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Key moment

The Oilers dominated the game’s archetypal shift, picking up 3 shots connected extremity and 2 different changeable attempts earlier Arvidsson bushed Saros for his archetypal extremity arsenic an Oiler conscionable 37 seconds into the game.

Key stat

With 2 goals and an assistance Thursday, Draisaitl present has 27 goals and 19 assists successful 28 games played against Nashville. He has six games with astatine slightest 3 points successful his past 9 played against Nashville.

Up next

Edmonton concludes a four-game travel Sunday successful Calgary, portion the Predators big the Avalanche Saturday.

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