Draisaitl scores twice, reaches 100 points in Oilers win against Senators

EDMONTON -- Leon Draisaitl scored twice to reach 100 points, and the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Ottawa Senators 6-3 at Rogers Place on Tuesday.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid each had a goal and assist, Warren Foegele had two assists, and Stuart Skinner made 29 saves for the Oilers (37-23-8), who moved into third place in the Pacific Division, one point ahead of the Seattle Kraken.
"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."

Tim Stutzle
scored twice and Mads Sogaard made 27 saves for the Senators (33-30-4), who have lost three straight in regulation and remained six points behind the New York Islanders for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.
"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."
Derek Ryan scored on Edmonton's first shot at 2:20 of the first period to make it 1-0. He took a pass from Ryan McLeod just inside the blue line and scored from the right face-off circle.
Brady Tkachuk tied it 1-1 on the power play at 6:48, banking in a centering pass off Oilers defenseman Vincent Desharnais.
Draisaitl gave Edmonton a 2-1 lead at 12:34, capitalizing on a turnover in the Senators zone by Stutzle. The puck eventually came to Foegele at the goal line, and he fed Draisaitl in the slot.

Stutzle tied it 2-2 with a short-handed goal at 18:53 on a 2-on-1 with Dylan Gambrell.
"After the first period, as a group, we thought we could be better," 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."
Nugent-Hopkins gave the Oilers a 3-2 lead on a power play at 5:39 of the second period after a centering pass bounced back to him.
Draisaitl made it 4-2 with his 100th point at 16:17, a one-timer from McDavid.
Nick Bjugstad made it 5-2 with 0.4 seconds left in the second. He took a pass from Mattias Ekholm in behind the defense, cut to the net and skated around Sogaard before scoring for the buzzer-beater.
"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 cut it to 5-3 at 5:28 of the third on a one-timer from Drake Batherson.

Ottawa had two power plays in the final period, but could not get any closer.
McDavid scored an empty-net goal at 17:47 for the 6-3 final.
The Senators were 1-for-5 with the man-advantage; the Oilers went 1-for-3.
"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."
NOTES: McLeod left the game in the third period after he took a hit from Ottawa defenseman Erik Brannstrom in the second period. He had one shift in the third before leaving. … Edmonton forward Zach Hyman did not play; he was "dinged up," according to Woodcroft. … Senators defenseman Thomas Chabot did not play because of a lower-body injury after blocking a shot in a 5-1 loss at the Calgary Flames on Sunday. He will be reevaluated in Ottawa.