Oilers score 7 in win against Blackhawks, extend point streak to 8

EDMONTON -- Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Zach Hyman each had a goal and two assists for the Edmonton Oilers, who extended their point streak to eight games with a 7-3 win against the Chicago Blackhawks at Rogers Place on Saturday.

"I thought we responded really well after a tight game against Columbus where we only got one point against them and played really well (3-2 overtime loss on Wednesday)," Hyman said. "I thought we played well and got an important two points, and we're feeling good going into the (All-Star) break."
Tyson Barrie scored twice, Ryan McLeod had a goal and an assist, and Darnell Nurse had three assists for the Oilers (28-18-4), who are 7-0-1 during their point streak.
Jack Campbell made 25 saves in his sixth straight victory before giving way at 17:34 of the third period to Matt Berlin, who was signed to an amateur tryout contract on an emergency basis earlier in the day after Stuart Skinner came down with an illness. Berlin stopped the one shot he faced.
"The whole day was a whirlwind, but the finish to the day was unbelievable," Berlin said. "Something I'll never forget for the rest of my life."

Taylor Raddysh had a goal and an assist, Patrick Kane had two assists, and Petr Mrazek made 36 saves for the Blackhawks (15-29-4), who have lost three of four.
"I thought we started the game well," Raddysh said. "In the first period we were right there with them, then in the second we got off to a slow start and they got four goals and we fell behind. It was a bit of a trickle down situation, and we just have to try and bounce back when we get into situations like that."
Barrie gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead at 5:20 of the first period with a wrist shot from the point through traffic on a power play.
Jason Dickinson tied it 1-1 at 5:25 of the second period on a shot from the slot moments after McDavid hit the post at the other end.
Draisaitl put Edmonton back in front 2-1 at 6:37, converting a pass from McDavid at the side of the net for another power-play goal.
"Our power play was good again against a penalty kill that's been really good of late," McDavid said. "We found a way to get two goals and kind of got us going, but [Campbell] did a great job for us again, and we can't forget about that. He played a great game in the first half and really kept us in there."

Barrie made it 3-1 at 12:15, jamming in a rebound in the crease after Hyman's deflection of Nurse's point shot trickled behind Mrazek.
McDavid extended the lead to 4-1 at 13:12 when he came out from behind the net, skated around Chicago defenseman Seth Jones and scored with a backhand from the slot. The goal, his 41st this season, extended his point streak to 12 games (nine goals, 11 assists).
Hyman pushed it to 5-1 at 14:48, knocking in a centering pass from McLeod.
"It seems, especially this year, we pre-scout them and we know what they're going to do and they still seem to be able to do it," Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson said. "They're really good at it. Unfortunately, if we would have been able to get one of those penalty kills, those two goals just got us off our game plan and got us spread out, whereas in the last two games we were well-connected.
"In the second period we started to spread out, and they just feast on that when you don't play your game plan."

Jonathan Toews cut it to 5-2 at 8:29 of the third period on the power play, tipping in a centering pass from Kane.
"We had a great start, and maybe we stopped skating a little bit or as much as we were in the first period," Toews said. "They made some nice plays, too, but it would have been nice to control it a little bit more in the second. It was kind of a make-or-break period."
Evander Kane scored 12 seconds later following a turnover in Chicago's zone to make it 6-2.
McLeod's goal made it 7-2 at 11:48 before Raddysh scored at 14:47 for the 7-3 final.
"I didn't think we were great right off the bat," Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said. "I thought we were better as it went on in the first period. We took it over in the second period, but there were still a couple of things I'd like to clean up.
"But our team is 10-3-2 since the Christmas break, and you couldn't script it better for us. I think we've taken a step here, and that's a credit to our players."
NOTES: Hyman and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who had two assists, became the third and fourth players with at least 60 points for the Oilers this season. The last team to have four players with at least 60 points through 50 games in a season were the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1995-96. ... Each team was playing its final game before the All-Star break.