Oilers rout Sharks, 7-1

Well, that ugly.

On Friday night in San Jose, the visiting Edmonton Oilers put up the extra point in a 7-1 thrashing of the Sharks.

The Oilers lead 7-0 before the Sharks’ Oskar Lindblom scored with under five minute left to put lipstick on a pig of a game and ruin the shut bid by the Oilers’ Jack Campbell, who made 25 saves.

The Oilers improved to 23-18-3.

“We were fortunate on some things tonight, but we executed the way we wanted to and came away with two points with multiple contributions up and down our lineup,” Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft said.

Connor McDavid had a double in the Oilers win.

“Two pretty good passes from [Leon Draisaitl] there, so that helps,” McDavid said. ” … I feel pretty good, but it’s about our group in here. We’re continuing to try to lay good games down one after another and take it one day at a time, kind of like our second half last year.”

The Sharks dropped to 13-23-6.

“We just stunk,” San Jose coach David Quinn said. “We stunk on the power play (0-for-4), we stunk on the penalty kill, we stunk 5-on-5. Our forwards stunk, our defensemen stunk. The only guy that didn’t stink was our goalie. And that hasn’t happened all year and over 82 games, something like this is going to happen. You can move past it pretty quickly.”

McDavid and Klim Kostin  scored in the first period to give the Oilers a 2-0 advantage headed to the second.

In the middle frame, Edmonton posted three goals, just to be sure everyone knew the rout was on.

“The guy had to set up the whole way and made a nice tip,” Campbell said. “Of course I want it if it goes through me, but [it was a] nice play and it’s a big win. That’s the most important thing.”

McDavid extended the lad to 3+-0, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Draisaitl  ballooned the lead to 5-0.

“He’s always been incredible,” Sharks captain Logan Couture said of McDavid. “I mean, he’s the best player in the world. He does special things. He’s on another level. His skating is untouchable, really. There’s very few in the world that can skate like him. It’s like he doesn’t even touch the ice. He just glides on top of it.”

Jesse Puljujarvi and Ryan McLeod scored in the third for the 7-0 lead.

Kaapo Kahkonen made 34 saves in the Sharks loss.