Kulak scores twice and McDavid gets first goal of season as Oilers beat Predators 4-2

Brett Kulak scored doubly and Connor McDavid added his archetypal extremity of the play to pb the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-2 triumph implicit the reeling Nashville Predators connected Thursday night.

Jeff Skinner besides scored and Calvin Pickard made 25 saves for the defending Western Conference champion Oilers, who person won consecutive games aft opening the play with a three-game skid.

Filip Forsberg and Jonathan Marchessault scored and Juuse Saros made 32 saves for Nashville (0-4).

Forsberg’s extremity midway done the archetypal play gave Nashville its archetypal pb of the season. That lasted little than six minutes earlier Kulak tied it.

Kulak sealed it with an empty-netter successful the last infinitesimal for the defenseman’s archetypal vocation two-goal game.

Takeaways

Oilers: The potent Edmonton powerfulness play has yet to find its stride. After going 0 for 4 connected Thursday, the Oilers are 1 for 13 with the antheral advantage. McDavid had 32 goals and a league-leading 100 assists past play and won the Conn Smythe Trophy arsenic playoff MVP contempt Edmonton losing the Stanley Cup Final to Florida.

Predators: Nashville is 0-4 for the archetypal clip since the 2002-03 season. The Predators hardly expected that commencement aft spending large successful the offseason, adding Marchessault — whose extremity was his archetypal arsenic a Predator — on with Steven Stamkos and Brady Skjei.

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Key moment

Just 44 seconds aft Nashville tied the crippled astatine 2-all precocious successful the 2nd period, McDavid picked up a puck successful the debased slot and lifted a wrist changeable implicit Saros.

Key stat

Leon Draisaitl had an assist, giving him 43 points (25 goals, 18 assists) successful 27 vocation games against the Predators.

Up next

The Oilers play astatine Dallas Saturday successful a rematch of past season’s Western Conference final, portion the Predators big Detroit Saturday.