Caps edge Edmonton, 5-4.

In Washington, DC, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Dylan Strome each hit for doubles on Monday night o help lead the Capitals to a 5-4 win over the visiting Edmonton Oilers.

The Caps scored four times off the power play.

“I thought he was going. He had speed and he was attacking the ice,” Capitals coach Peter Laviolette said of Kucherov. “I thought we moved the puck pretty good.”

Charlie Lindgren made 25 saves in the Caps win.

“Definitely tomorrow morning will be better than last eight mornings, probably,” Kuznetsov said. “I felt like we play good but not good enough for wins lately. This win will give us big breath and we can breathe a little bit and coaches can finally show us some positive moments, because that’s big when you come in next morning.”

Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl had goals for the Oilers.

“You can’t give up four power-play goals in a game an expect to win it. Flat out not good enough on the penalty kill,” Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said. “I’d also say we put ourselves in positions to take those penalties that, you know, I didn’t think that all of them we needed to take.”

Alex Ovechkin had a single marker for the Capitals.

Strome scored in the first period for a 1-0 lead to the Caps, and added his second marker with just 26 seconds gone in the middle frame.

“That ended up being a key moment in the game,” Woodcroft said. “We turned it over, it ended up in the net, and then we took a penalty not long after that and we’re down 2-0 a minute into the second period.”

Edmonton’s Ryan Nugent-Hopkins  scored a pair of goals for the Oilers.

“We hadn’t had a lot of practice time over the last 10 days, and so we’re putting it together through video and through meetings and stuff like that, but they were really good tonight,” Laviolette said of the power play.

Stuart Skinner made 26 saves in the Oilers loss.

The Oilers dropped to 7-6-0; they have lost three straight.

Cue the crankiness.

“It’s getting old, battling back you know,” Draisaitl said. “It’s exhausting, it’s tiring. We just give up too many goals.”