McDavid scores 100th point, Oilers gain in Pacific with win against Kings

EDMONTON -- Connor McDavid scored his 100th point for the Edmonton Oilers in a 4-3 shootout win against the Los Angeles Kings at Rogers Place on Wednesday.

McDavid, who had a goal and an assist, leads the NHL in points and has scored 100 five times in his seven NHL seasons.
"It is very impressive," Edmonton forward Leon Draisaitl said of McDavid. "He might have gotten 100 in his rookie season too, if he hadn't have gotten hurt (48 in 45 games). His consistency is amazing, fun to be a part of, fun to watch. It is hard to score in this league. He goes up against the best every single night. Every team tries to stop him and focuses on him the most, yet every season he gets 110, 120 points, I don't even know. But that is hard to do. It is impressive."

Draisaitl scored his 49th goal of the season, and Mikko Koskinen made 38 saves for the Oilers (38-25-5), who trail the Kings by one point for second place in the Pacific Division.
"We won the game, and for us, that was the important thing," Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft said. "It was a whatever-it-takes attitude. When you're not feeling 100 percent, the counterthrust to that is doing whatever it takes to get the two points, and it's a full credit to the people in the locker room who found a way and did whatever it took."
Alexander Edler and Carl Grundstrom each had a goal and assist for Los Angeles (36-23-10), which has lost its past two games. Jonathan Quick made 30 saves.
"I thought out guys did a good job, they were prepared for it, it's going to be that way from now until the end of the season," Kings coach Todd McLellan said. "But the group we have playing right now did a real good job tonight. We had to scratch and claw to come back. It's disappointing we didn't get the point when the shootout starts, but as far as the rest of the game, and finding guys to contribute, I thought we did a real good job."
Draisaitl and McDavid scored in the shootout. Viktor Arvidsson and Anze Kopitar failed to score against Koskinen.

Edler scored to give the Kings a 1-0 lead at 2:46 of the first period on a point shot through traffic. It was their first shot on goal.
Cody Ceci tied it 1-1 at 7:24 when he took a pass from McDavid intended for Jesse Puljujarvi in the slot and scored from the right face-off circle.
Draisaitl gave Edmonton a 2-1 lead at 18:08. He took a cross-crease pass from Zach Hyman and scored from the side of the net.
McDavid made it 3-1 with his 100th point (37 goals, 63 assists) at 5:07 of the second period. He centered a pass from behind the net, which was inadvertently swept in by Los Angeles defenseman Alex Iafallo. The goal was initially credited to Puljujarvi before being changed.
McDavid has eight goals and 13 assists during an 11-game point streak.
"It's incredible," Woodcroft said. "He's a phenomenal athlete that takes his craft very serious. He's proud to have reached that mark I'm sure, but as I said this morning, I think he's driven to get our team to 100 points."
Quinton Byfield made it 3-2 at 5:54 on a shot from the slot, and Grundstrom tied it 14 seconds later at 6:08 to make it 3-3.
"The intensity was there for both sides and it made for a really fun game, but it [stinks] coming out on the short side of it," Byfield said. "I thought we showed great resiliency coming back from 3-1, but I think we needed to complete the full comeback. I think every point is important, and we definitely wanted two."

McDavid appeared to have scored the go-ahead goal at 10:25, muscling his way to the front of the net and scoring on a backhand, but the Kings won a challenge for goalie interference against Puljujarvi.
"The rate that both [McDavid and Draisaitl] are scoring at, and the consistency that they bring every single night putting up points is impressive," Ceci said. "That is what kind of drew me here in the summertime was the chance to play with these guys and see how far we can go."
NOTES: Draisaitl has eight goals during a five-game goal streak. … The Oilers are 4-0-0 in shootouts this season ... Los Angeles played without injured forwards Dustin Brown (upper body), Andreas Athanasiou (upper body), Brendan Lemieux (lower body), Blake Lizotte (upper body), and defensemen Drew Doughty (upper body) and Matt Roy (lower body).