McDavid has 3 more points, Oilers defeat Golden Knights in shootout

EDMONTON -- Connor McDavid had his third straight multipoint game with a goal and two assists, and the Edmonton Oilers recovered for a 5-4 shootout win against the Vegas Golden Knights at Rogers Place on Tuesday.

McDavid had four assists in a 5-0 win at the Washington Capitals on Friday, then had five points (one goal, four assists) in an 8-2 victory against the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday. He has 15 points (four goals, 11 assists) during a five-game point streak.

Sam Gagner, Mattias Janmark and Evander Kane scored for the Oilers (8-12-1), who have won three in a row. Stuart Skinner made 23 saves.

“We’ll take wins any way we can get them at this point,” McDavid said. “Obviously it would be nice to close it out up two with five minutes to go -- you expect to close that out -- but we will take the win any way we can.

“Definitely there is momentum in our room. I think we can feel it. I think what we have seen out of our last three (games) and it is something to build off of.”

Ben Hutton and Keegan Kolesar scored in the third period for the Golden Knights (14-5-4), who have lost three straight (0-1-2) and five of six (1-2-3). Logan Thompson made 30 saves.

"You can’t lean on the same guys every night, and we’ve done that well all last year and this year. We are grinding points out,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “We’d rather have wins and some have not gone our way recently; I think we won three shootouts in our first 12 games, so there’s a bit of a pendulum that swings the other way.”

Hutton cut it to 4-3 at 13:30 of the third with a wrist shot from the edge of the left circle, and Kolesar tied it 4-4 at 17:51 on a redirection of Zach Whitecloud’s shot.

McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored in the shootout for Edmonton; Jonathan Marchessault shot wide, and Jack Eichel hit the post for Vegas.

“We talked about it in between periods; we needed to come out hard, we were down a couple and we needed to be a little more aggressive and find ways to score, and we did that,” Hutton said. “We were able to get into overtime and a shootout and we were able to get the point, so you have to take the positive out of it.

“The last few games we haven’t had the best record, but I feel like we’re getting our chances. We’re getting a lot of Grade A [chances], but we’re hitting posts or we’re nicking a stick or whatnot. But we’re going to keep grinding and eventually those are going to go in and we’ll be on the winning side.”

Gagner gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead at 13:29 of the first period when his wrist shot along the right wall snuck past Thompson to the near side.

Mark Stone tied it 1-1 at 1:11 of the second period on a redirection of Kaedan Korczak’s wrist shot from the point.

Janmark put Edmonton back in front 2-1 with his first of the season at 5:08, deflecting Mattias Ekholm’s slap shot from the left circle, but Michael Amadio tied it 2-2 at 5:51 after a face-off win by Nicolas Roy.

McDavid gave the Oilers a 3-2 lead at 7:54 on a breakaway, and Kane made it 4-2 on a backhand in front for a power-play goal at 17:23.

Edmonton is 5-3-0 since Kris Knoblauch replaced Jay Woodcroft as coach on Nov. 12.

“I thought we played pretty well,” Knoblauch said. “The last five minutes were pretty chaotic and I won’t say we made mistakes, but we gave them opportunities. I thought we were in pretty good control up 4-2, but overall the first 15 minutes of the third period were pretty good. We had a lot of opportunities to put it away -- on the power play, some 5-on-5 chances, but we didn’t and it took us an extra five minutes and a shootout.

"Guys were positive on the bench. It was, 'Don't worry about it, we're still going to get the two points. Let's continue to play hockey.' I don't think we would have heard that when I first got here, but they still believed in it, and it was nice."

NOTES: It was the 24th time McDavid had three points in a period, passing Jarri Kurri and Mark Messier for second in Oilers history. Wayne Gretzky leads with 101. … Janmark played 15:45 in place of forward Zach Hyman, who was a late scratch (illness). … Edmonton’s Ken Holland served his 2,000th NHL game as a general manager.  … With an assist, Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard extended his point streak to seven games (two goals, seven assists) … Kane has three goals in his past three games. … Roy had two assists and was plus-2 in 17:59.