McDavid has 2 goals, assist on birthday, Oilers ease past Sharks

SAN JOSE -- Connor McDavid scored twice on his 26th birthday and extended his road point streak to 12 games for the Edmonton Oilers in a 7-1 win against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center on Friday.

McDavid, who also had an assist, has 25 points (10 goals, 15 assists) during his road run, the longest of his NHL career. He has scored in six straight road games and leads the League with 82 points (37 goals, 45 assists) in 44 games this season. McDavid is the first player to reach 80 points in 44 or fewer games since Mario Lemieux (31), Jaromir Jagr (37) and Ron Francis (44) with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1995-96.
"Two pretty good passes from [Leon Draisaitl] there, so that helps," McDavid said. " … I feel pretty good, but it's about our group in here. We're continuing to try to lay good games down one after another and take it one day at a time, kind of like our second half last year."
Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had a goal and two assists for the Oilers (23-18-3), who have won two in a row and conclude a four-game road trip at the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday. Jack Campbell made 25 saves.
"We were fortunate on some things tonight, but we executed the way we wanted to and came away with two points with multiple contributions up and down our lineup," Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft said.

Oskar Lindblom scored, and Kaapo Kahkonen made 34 saves for the Sharks (13-23-8), who have lost four of five (1-3-1).
"We just stunk," San Jose coach David Quinn said. "We stunk on the power play (0-for-4), we stunk on the penalty kill, we stunk 5-on-5. Our forwards stunk, our defensemen stunk. The only guy that didn't stink was our goalie. And that hasn't happened all year and over 82 games, something like this is going to happen. You can move past it pretty quickly."
McDavid gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead at 10:59 of the first period when Draisaitl set him up for a one-timer that beat Kahkonen stick side for a power-play goal, and Klim Kostin made it 2-0 at 18:14 when Zach Hyman's feed went off his skate.
McDavid gave the Oilers a 3-0 lead with another power-play goal at 8:22 of the second period, again set up by Draisaitl.

Nugent-Hopkins made it 4-0 at 13:07 on a short-handed breakaway before Draisaitl made it 5-0 at 17:55 after a pass from McDavid.
"He's always been incredible," Sharks captain Logan Couture said of McDavid. "I mean, he's the best player in the world. He does special things. He's on another level. His skating is untouchable, really. There's very few in the world that can skate like him. It's like he doesn't even touch the ice. He just glides on top of it."
Jesse Puljujarvi gave Edmonton a 6-0 lead at 12:14 of the third period before Ryan McLeod made it 7-0 just 32 seconds later at 12:46.
Lindblom ended Campbell's shutout at 15:02 on a redirection of Matt Benning's shot for the 7-1 final.
"The guy had to set up the whole way and made a nice tip," Campbell said. "Of course I want it if it goes through me, but [it was a] nice play and it's a big win. That's the most important thing."

Campbell made a highlight-reel save at 2:48 of the third when he lunged across the crease to glove Marc-Edouard Vlasic's chance from point-blank range.
"I'd love to see it again," Nugent-Hopkins said. "They didn't really show it on the Jumbotron. I think that's going to be up there for save of the year."
NOTES:It was Draisaitl's 600th NHL game. … Oilers forward Kailer Yamamoto did not play because of an undisclosed injury. There was no update. … Sharks defenseman Jaycob Megna was minus-3 in 20:59 of ice time.