McDavid and Draisaitl each extend their points streak, the Oilers lead Utah

Mattias Ekholm had a goal and an assist, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Troy Stecher and Draisaitl scored, and Stuart Skinner made 26 saves for the Oilers (22-12-3), who had lost their last two games (0-1-1 ). ). McDavid and Connor Brown each had two assists.

With his first assist of the game, McDavid passed Mark Messier (1,034 points) and moved into third place on the Oilers’ all-time scoring list. With 1,036 points, he trails only Wayne Gretzky (1,669) and Jari Kurri (1,043) in franchise history. During his 12-game point streak, McDavid has 23 points (three goals, 20 assists), including nine assists in the last five games.

Jack McBain scored and Jaxson Stauber made 34 saves for Utah (16-15-6), which lost its fifth straight (0-4-1).

Ekholm gave Edmonton a 1-0 lead at 4:26 of the first period when Vasily Podkolzin picked up the rebound from a shot by Evan Bouchard and sent it back to the top of the left circle for Ekholm, who fired a shot high past Stauber’s blocker over.

McBain made it 1-1 after six minutes when he had to partially dodge a pass from Dylan Guenther, played the ball to his forehand and shot past Skinner’s right ball on the other side.

The Oilers took a 2-1 lead at 4:53 of the second period after a free throw on a clearance attempt by Utah defenseman Mikhail Sergachev led to a tic-tac-toe initiated by Nugent-Hopkins at the blue line.

He tossed the puck to McDavid, who passed to Brown, who then found Nugent-Hopkins on the side of the net, who slotted the ball in past Stauber’s outstretched glove.

Just 20 seconds later, Stecher sent a shot from the top of the right circle that deflected off Utah defenseman Vladislav Kolyachonok through Stauber’s legs for a 3-1 lead.

Draisaitl shot into the empty net after 18:58 minutes, securing his 26th goal, which is the team’s best in the league. This gave him 24 points (10 goals, 14 assists) during his 12-game point streak.