In Edmonton, the Oilers and Ottawa Senators came out of the first period tied, 2-2m on Tuesday night.
A three-goal third period ended the Senators hopes of staying with the Oilers, as Edmonton posted a 6-3 win.
Leon Draisaitl hit for a double and reached the 100 point plateau in the win.
Stuart Skinner made 29 saves in the win.
“I feel very fortunate, obviously, very happy about it,” Draisaitl said of reaching 100 points. “But this is my job, this is what I get paid to do. I couldn’t do it without any of these guys in here, and I am well aware of that and very appreciative of them finding me and putting me in the right spots. I am very happy about that.”
The Oilers improved to 37-23-8 with the win, and moved into third in the Pacific ahead of the Seattle Kraken.
“I thought we were a little bit sloppy early in the game; I didn’t think we were skating at the level that we normally skate at,” Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft said. “I thought our special teams could have been better. I saw as improve as the game went on.
“In the end, we found goals from Derek Ryan and Nick Bjugstad, and I thought Warren Foegele had a heck of a game. But I thought Leon Draisaitl was the best player on the ice by a country mile.”
The two teams traded first period goals for the 2-2 tie.
Edmonton struck first on a goal from Derek Ryan at 2:20, and Brady Tkachuk tied it, 1-1.
“I thought we worked hard, I thought we had lots of chances,” Ottawa coach D.J. Smith said. “We’ll have to look, [but] I thought they were even or maybe a little bit our way. Just the mistakes we made ended up in our net.”
Draisaitl hit for his first for a 2-1 lead, and Tim Stutzle scored his first of two on the night for the 2-2 tie.
“After the first period, as a group, we thought we could be better,” Edmonton’s Warren Foegele said. “In that second period, I thought everyone was kind of going and we engaged, and we were really on the throttle there and we were fortunate enough to get a couple of goals.”
The Oilers hit for three in the middle frame.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Draisaitl, and Nick Bjugstad gave the Oilers a 5-2 lead coming out of the middle frame.
“It was deflating for sure, but in saying that, we didn’t come out [for the third period] that way,” Smith said. “This group is not going to quit. They’re not going to give in.”
Stutzle scored his second of the game in the third period for a 5-3 count to the Oilers, and Connor McDavid scored his 56th of the campaign, into an empty net, for the 6-3 final.
Mads Sogaard made 27 saves in the Ottawa loss.
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