McDavid paces Edmonton Oilers to 6-2 win over New York Rangers

Connor McDavid had 2 goals and an assistance for the Edmonton Oilers successful a 6-2 triumph implicit the visiting New York Rangers connected Saturday.

Leon Draisaitl and Evan Bouchard each had a extremity and an assistance and Vasily Podkolzin and Darnell Nurse besides scored for the Oilers (11-9-2) who improved to 5-2-1 successful their past 8 games.

Mattias Janmark and Connor Brown each contributed a brace of assists to Edmonton’s victory.

Artemi Panarin replied with a brace of goals for the Rangers (12-6-1) who person mislaid 2 consecutive aft opening a four-game roadworthy travel with a brace of wins.

Stuart Skinner stopped 33 shots successful Edmonton’s net. Rangers counterpart Jonathan Quick made 34 saves.

TAKEAWAYS

Rangers: Went with Quick implicit prima goalie Igor Shesterkin, but the erstwhile has historically played good against Edmonton with a 25-12-6 record, a 2.18 goals-against mean and .921 prevention percent against the Oilers earlier Saturday’s game. Quick, 38, stopped 18 shots successful the archetypal play earlier helium was scored connected doubly successful the last 3 minutes of the opening frame.

Oilers: Podkolzin, who was each implicit opposing team’s nets successful caller games, was yet rewarded erstwhile helium bushed Quick with 2:26 to play successful the archetypal period. It was the 23-year-old Russian’s archetypal extremity arsenic an Oiler and archetypal since March of past twelvemonth for a span of 42 regular play games. The Canucks traded Podkolzin to Edmonton past summertime for a fourth-round pick.

KEY MOMENT

With 8 seconds remaining successful the opening period, Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse scored short-handed to springiness Edmonton a 2-0 lead. It was Nurse’s archetypal crippled backmost successful the lineup aft a cheque to his caput by Toronto’s Ryan Reaves a week earlier. Reaves was slapped with a five-game suspension. Nurse pointed to his caput aft his goal, which was the sixth short-handed of his career. He’s tied for archetypal among progressive defencemen with Vancouver’s Tyler Myers.

KEY STAT

The Oilers improved to 7-2-1 successful their past 10 meetings with the Ranger. Edmonton has scored 4 oregon much goals successful 7 of its past 9 contests against New York.

UP NEXT

Rangers: Host the St. Louis Blues connected Monday.

Oilers: Are disconnected until Friday’s roadworthy crippled against Utah.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 23, 2024.