EDMONTON — Zach Hyman and Leon Draisaitl each had a goal and an assist as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 5-1 on Wednesday despite the absence of star forward Connor McDavid.
Cody Ceci, Mattias Ekholm and Dylan Holloway also scored while Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ryan McLeod had a pair of assists each for Edmonton , which won a third game in a row.
McDavid missed the game with a lower-body injury but is considered day-to-day. The Oilers captain is stuck at 99 assists on the season, needing only one to become just the fourth player in NHL history to hit 100.The Oilers started the scoring midway through the opening period. Ekholm continued his torrid pace of late with his 11th of the season coming 5:38 into the second period. He unleashed a rocket of a shot from the right faceoff dot that Hill could only wave at. Ekholm leads all NHL defencemen in five-on-five points since the NHL all-star break with 25.
Vegas continued to have trouble getting to Oilers starter Stuart Skinner, who stopped Anthony Mantha on a breakaway with six minutes left in the second.
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