McDavid has 5 assists, Draisaitl scores hat trick in Oilers win against Flames

EDMONTON -- Connor McDavid had five assists to extend his point streak to 11 games, and Leon Draisaitl scored a hat trick for the Edmonton Oilers in a 5-1 win against the Calgary Flames at Rogers Place on Tuesday.

McDavid, who recorded his second five-assist game and 12th five-point game of his NHL career, has 31 points (12 goals, 19 assists) during his run.

“It tilts the ice,” Draisaitl said of McDavid’s performance. “He’s obviously feeling it. We’ve all seen it plenty of times in his career. The puck is following him right now. He’s just too good right now. That’s not fun to play against.”

Draisaitl scored all three of his goals on the power play for his ninth regular-season hat trick in the NHL. He also reached 419 career goals to move past Glenn Anderson (417 goals) for third in Oilers history, behind Wayne Gretzky (583) and Jari Kurri (474).

Zach Hyman had a goal and two assists, and Evan Bouchard had two assists for Edmonton (19-13-6), which has gone 8-2-1 in its past 11 games to move into a tie for first place in the Pacific Division with both the Anaheim Ducks and Vegas Golden Knights. Connor Ingram made 18 saves.

“You look at the way the team’s rolling right now, winning a lot more games and it starts with those two,” Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said of McDavid (31 points) and Draisaitl (24 points), who lead the NHL in points scored in December. “They are playing extremely well, that’s an understatement.

“Over three or four weeks, they’ve been really rolling and scoring, and you see the leaders in points the last few weeks and those two are head and shoulders above everyone else. A lot of that is the work on the power play, that’s playing really well, but both of them really driving their own line, 5-on-5.”

Ingram earned his second win in back-to-back starts since getting called up from Bakersfield of the American Hockey League.

“He's been solid,” McDavid said. “I've liked our game in front of him too, but he's done the job that's been asked of him. He’s been a rock back there.”

MacKenzie Weegar scored for the Flames (15-18-4), who were 6-2-0 in their previous eight games. Dustin Wolf made 34 saves.

“I don’t think that was a very good night for us,” Calgary coach Ryan Huska said. “I feel like we gave them way too much room, through the neutral zone in particular, for us. I thought their top players did a really good job and I don’t think we handled them all that well tonight.

“You have to stay on top of them, for one. If they have room to skate and nobody is in front of them, they’re the best players in the game. They’re dangerous. Then the power play as well, you can’t give them that many opportunities, they’ll make you pay.”

Edmonton went 3-for-6 with the man-advantage, while Calgary was 0-for-4.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins gave Edmonton a 1-0 lead at 6:48 of the first period, picking up the rebound off a slap shot from the point by Bouchard and firing it past Wolf’s blocker.

Weegar tied it 1-1 at 15:58, sending a slap shot that deflected in off Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse.

“I think we let their top guys have too much room out there,” Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau said. “We know they’re unbelievable players, but you can’t let them have it that easy. They have a really good power play and we took too many penalties as well.”

Draisaitl’s first power-play goal put the Oilers back ahead 2-1 at 19:43. Hyman took the rebound off a shot by McDavid and sent a back pass across the crease for Draisaitl to put into the open net behind Wolf.

Draisaitl extended it to 3-1 on the power play at 1:59 of the second period, taking a centering pass from McDavid into the slot and scoring stick side on Wolf.

Hyman pushed it to 4-1 at 11:56, scoring off a 2-on-1 rush on a pass from McDavid that he stuffed in point blank.

“Obviously, they are two of the best players in the world,” Hyman said of McDavid and Draisaitl. “They drive our team. When they are playing like that it makes it easier for the rest of us.”

Draisaitl made it 5-1 with his third power-play goal at 5:38 of the third period. McDavid drove to the net and Hyman came up with the rebound, which he slid through a crowded net front to Draisaitl for the backdoor finish.

“They came out with a lot more intensity than us,” Calgary defenseman Kevin Bahl said. “Our keeper was excellent, and we have lots to learn from there, and we have to be a lot better.

“If we could have shut down their power play, I think we could have given ourselves a good shot in that game.”

The two teams will face each other again coming out of the holiday break in Calgary on Saturday (10 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SNE, SNO, SNW).

NOTES: It was McDavid’s 45th career game with four or more points, tying Kurri for second in Oilers history. … Draisaitl recorded his 10th 20-goal season and tied Kurri, McDavid, Anderson and Mark Messier for the most in Oilers history. … McDavid became the first player with 67 or more points (23 goals, 44 assists) entering the holiday break since 1995-96, when Penguins teammates Mario Lemieux (76 points) and Jaromir Jagr (68) achieved the feat. … Weegar received a game misconduct at 5:48 of the second period.