McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, the top two scorers in the NHL this season, each is without a point in the series and their production is critical to Edmonton's plan to get back into the win column.
In the regular season when neither scored a point, Edmonton was 2-6-0. Including the first two games of the series, the Oilers have lost seven straight in that scenario.
Their confidence is not waning, however.
"We've faced a lot of adversity throughout the whole year and we've always come back and kind of made a positive out of it," Draisaitl said. "There's a lot of trust in our group, a lot of confidence, especially on the road as well, where we're a really good team (19-7-2 during the regular season). We're fine. Obviously we're in a position that we would have liked to be a little bit different but that's the way it is and we're going to have to fight our way back into it."