"I think Connor will tell you about 21 guys were yelling, 'Shoot!'" Oilers coach Todd McLellan said. "Maybe that's why he's special, because he looked to pass. Give credit to Leon because he had to reel the puck in, find it and score on the second opportunity."
Nugent-Hopkins put the Oilers up 2-0 with 2:05 left in the second. He took a pass from Milan Lucic in the slot and shot through Gibson's pads. Anton Slepyshev intercepted a clearing attempt by Ducks defenseman Kevin Bieksa inside the Anaheim blue line, which led to the goal.
"They had a higher rate of completing passes and creating scoring chances than we did," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. "But we didn't play well with the puck. We haven't done that in a while. We hit some posts, we had a couple of open nets and the chances we did get after two periods, most of them, we didn't have much of a net presence. We were one and done."
Kassian gave Edmonton a 3-0 lead with 16 seconds left in the second. He tipped the puck past Sami Vatanen before backhanding it over Gibson's shoulder for his fourth of the season.
"I know I won't get many of those," Kassian said. "I got lucky on the backhand. Good feeling."
Draisaitl scored his second at 1:34 of the third period to give Edmonton a 4-0 lead. He took a pass from Pat Maroon at the left faceoff circle and shot past Gibson. Draisaitl leads the Oilers with 19 goals.
"It wasn't like we didn't have anything going, it was stupid mistakes," Ducks forward Ryan Kesler said. "We beat ourselves. Obviously we've just got to forget about this one and move on."
Talbot made nine saves in the third period to preserve the 15th shutout of his NHL career.
