Warren Foegele and Evander Kane every had a aim and an help because the Edmonton Oilers saved their spectacular win streak going with a 4-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday.
Connor McDavid and Dylan Holloway additionally scored for the Oilers (27-15-1) who’ve now gained 14 video games in a row, turning into simply the seventh crew in NHL historical past to achieve that lofty mark.
The file is 17 wins in a row, at present held by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1992-93. The Oilers are actually 22-3-0 of their final 25 video games and have gone a franchise-record 12 video games of permitting two or fewer targets.
Dmitri Voronkov responded for the Blue Jackets (14-23-9), who’ve misplaced 5 of their final six video games.
Edmonton began the scoring on an influence play eight-and-a-half minutes into the opening interval, as Kane centred the puck right into a crowd and Foegele was capable of chip his tenth of the season previous Blue Jackets goalie Elvis Merzlikins.
Columbus had a few probabilities to tie it shortly after, as a puck sat free below Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner after a deflection off defender Cody Ceci, however was whistled lifeless.
Johnny Gaudreau then had a breakaway which Skinner was capable of cease with a fast glove hand.
Edmonton’s sloppy first interval play caught up with the crew with 4:35 left to play, as Kent Johnson made a return go to Voronkov and he snapped house his tenth earlier than Skinner may dive again throughout the web.
It seemed just like the Oilers had regained the lead halfway by means of the second interval on one other power-play aim by McDavid, however the aim was overturned on a video assessment for being offside.
Columbus continued to be the higher crew within the center interval, outshooting Edmonton 23-13 by means of 40 minutes. Edmonton did not register a shot for greater than 10 minutes within the second.
Edmonton went up 2-1 5 minutes into the third interval as an enormous rebound got here to Kane and he slammed house his fifteenth.
The Oilers then took a two-goal lead lower than a minute later, as McDavid lifted his seventeenth into the web when Columbus’s Erik Gudbranson plowed Oiler Zach Hyman into his personal goalie. McDavid’s house level scoring streak was prolonged to 17 video games with the aim.
Edmonton prolonged their lead with 4:24 to play within the closing body as Merzlikins made an enormous save on Connor Brown, however Holloway was there to deposit his second of the season right into a wide-open cage on the rebound.
Skinner made 27 saves to win his eleventh straight sport, passing Grant Fuhr for the longest single-season profitable streak in Oilers historical past.
The Oilers subsequent sport is Thursday night time after they host the Chicago Blackhawks.