Leon Draisaitl had two goals and an assist to take over the NHL scoring lead one point ahead of teammate Connor McDavid as the Oilers downed the Predators.
Kailer Yamamoto, Devin Shore and Jesse Puljujarvi with an empty-net goal also scored for the Oilers who have won three games in a row.
His seven points in his last two games makes him the first player to reach 20 points in his first nine games of a season since Mario Lemieux in 2002-03. "It's great right now,'' he said."We had a really good start at 5-0 and kept the train rolling a little bit. There are still areas of our game where we can improve but we are going to work on them.
"I thought we fought hard, I thought we had a lot of good looks, I thought we had a lot of good shots and good tips by our forwards,'' Predators defenceman Roman Josi said."We obviously didn't score. The Oilers surged back in front 1:27 into the second period as a big bounce came out to Yamamoto, who scored his second goal in as many games after just one goal in his previous 36 regular-season outings.
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