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The Oilers begin a three-game road trip on Monday against the Nashville Predators. The game can be seen on Sportsnet and heard on the Oilers Radio Network, including 630 CHED. Puck drop is 6:08 p.m. MT.
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Draisaitl wasted no time, opening the scoring with a power-play marker 6:27 into the game off a cross-ice feed from Connor McDavid to quickly wipe away any sort of expectation that'd been placed on him in the build-up to reaching the 100-point plateau.
With his first period tally, Draisaitl became the seventh player in Oilers franchise history to post multiple 100-point campaigns and the first Oiler to reach 100 points in 65 or fewer games since Mark Messier in '89-90.
"Is that good? 100 points?" Mike Smith, the unsung hero of Saturday night with 39 saves, said post-game of certified century man Draisaitl.
After the Jets struck twice in 34 seconds during the middle frame to take the lead, Draisaitl squared the scoreline with the redirection from the slot for point #101 on another Oilers man advantage as the final seconds trickled down before the second intermission.
"The second period we just turned so many pucks over, and then made a couple of critical mistakes that ended up in the back of our net," Head Coach Dave Tippett said. "We got a huge power-play goal at the end of the second to give us some life going into the dressing room, and I thought in the third we were much better."
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins wristed home the game-winner with 5:16 to go before full-time, capping off a three-point night for himself off a feed from Draisaitl that made it 102 points on the year for the Deutschland Dangler.
"It's outstanding how fast he reached it this year," Nugent-Hopkins said of Draisaitl. "It's pretty crazy to think, but his offence is obvious. Defensively, I think the last stretch he's been playing so solid too that it goes hand-in-hand."