Oilers fall to Canadiens in OT, losing streak reaches five

MONTREAL -- The Edmonton Oilers lost their fifth straight game when Jonathan Drouin scored 58 seconds into overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 win at Bell Centre on Sunday.

Drouin scored on a wrist shot after Carey Price made successive saves against Connor McDavid, Darnell Nurse and Leon Draisaitl on a play that began with McDavid and Draisaitl on a two-man breakaway.
"We just didn't connect clean," McDavid said. "I thought we still had a chance there. The first one was a little too far in front of me; I couldn't get to it. The second one, you know, if I maybe take a step I could get it to Leon, but Nurse] still had a good crack at it. So they had a chance, we had a couple chances, and the last goal wins, obviously, so they were able to find it."
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Shea Weber, Max Domi and Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored for Montreal (29-18-6), which is 6-1-1 in its past eight games.
Price, who made 21 saves, returned after serving a one-game suspension Saturday for not participating in the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend.
"Carey made some unbelievable big saves there in the overtime and allowed us to come back and win that game," Canadiens coach Claude Julien said.
Draisaitl scored twice and McDavid got his 31st goal for Edmonton (23-24-5), which is 0-3-2 during its skid, including a 5-4 overtime loss at the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday. Mikko Koskinen made 23 saves.

"Two big points for us this weekend, but in my eyes it probably should have been four," Draisaitl said. "So obviously it's something we have to do better, closing games out and finding ways to get two points. But it's still a big point for us."
Kotkaniemi scored for a second straight game to tie it at 3-3 at 13:35 of the third period.
"We had them frustrated," Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock said. "They couldn't get through the neutral zone, we were turning pucks over and creating scoring chances. We played one (heck) of a third period. That's the best I've seen a team play for a long time. We had perfect positioning, our reloads, our checking was unbelievable. And we did a (heck) of a job. But we've got to have a save there."

Weber gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead with his eighth goal on a power play at 2:23 of the first, a one-timer from the top of the left face-off circle.
Draisaitl tied it at 1-1 with his 28th goal at 9:44.
Domi made it 2-1 at 1:09 of the second period on a wraparound that went in off Koskinen's glove for his 17th goal.
Edmonton, which allowed four power-play goals Saturday, took the lead with consecutive goals on the man-advantage.
McDavid tied it 2-2 when he scored for a second straight game at 8:05. Draisaitl then gave the Oilers a 3-2 lead with his second of the game off a rebound at 14:55.

They said it

"We can't sit back and let them come at us wave after wave. We've got to push back and push for the fourth goal instead of just trying to defend the one-goal lead. So we've got to do a better job of pushing back." -- Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl
"I thought he was unreal (Saturday). That's probably one of the best games I've seen him play (Saturday), all around, not just his goal but he was physical. He was strong on pucks, and even again (Sunday), he got a big goal at an important time. And he's still going to keep improving and growing, so it's exciting to see." -- Canadiens defenseman Shea Weber on rookie forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi

Need to know

McDavid has 27 points (12 goals, 15 assists) in his past 17 games, including six (two goals, four assists) during a four-game point streak. ... Canadiens forward Paul Byron sustained an apparent upper-body injury in the second period and did not return. Julien said Byron will be re-evaluated Monday. … Kotkaniemi, 18, has scored each of his eight goals at home. He has 16 points (eight goals, eight assists) in 28 home games, and nine points (nine assists) in 25 road games.

What's next

Oilers: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday (9 p.m. ET; SNW, WGN, NHL.TV)
Canadiens: Host the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday (7:30 p.m. ET; TSN2, RDS, KCOP-13, NHL.TV)