Stars fall to Oilers, 5-2

The most basic goal of hockey has been elusive for the Edmonton Oilers lately.

Oilers: Return home to play Chicago on Monday night. Our weekly roundtable hits on another two questions relating to the Blackhawks, and these are two relatively timely ones. The Sabres had gone 0-8-1 versus Pittsburgh since a 4-2 road win on April 23, 2013.

He’s halfway to his rookie goal total, which took 45 games to accomplish, though a broken clavicle caused him to miss three months of the 2015-16 season. Teammate Jesse Puljujarvi took a slapshot, but it was blocked and bounced McDavid’s way.

“Hossa continues to do what he’s been doing all year; he’s been scoring some huge goals for us”. Edmonton is mired in a five-game losing streak, including a 3-2 defeat at home to Dallas on November 11. That includes an overtime marker that lifted Chicago to a 4-3 win on November 18, 2015. Chicago goalie Scott Darling stopped one chance by Vancouver’s Markus Granlund, and then Canucks star Henrik Sedin sent a shot off the post.

William Nylander scored for the Maple Leafs, who were coming off a pair of home wins in which they totaled 12 goals.

“We knew he was going to come right back in and he’s going to be fine”, Quenneville said.

It was not that the Dallas Stars played poorly, but that they were unable to convert on their chances while the Oilers were.

Corey Crawford is 7-0-0 with a 1.69 GAA and.947 save percentage in his last seven starts against the Oilers.

Against the Dallas Stars, all that concern about the well-being of the Edmonton Oilers captain went right out the window as he got the first of what will probably be many hat tricks in his career.

“He’s an unbelievable skater”, said Kane, who can get around pretty well himself. “It’s a amusing league that way”. It’s weird that way. He has eight goals and 14 assists for 22 points in 18 games to kick off his sophomore season.

McDavid opened the scoring at 2:57 of the first period with the type of goal that usually ends a drought.

“Hopefully, it carries over into a game situation”, says head coach Todd McLellan.

“We need to work on our starts and try not to dig ourselves holes like that”.

The Oilers got Drake Caggiula, Matt Hendricks and Kris Russell back Saturday, and all of them were outstanding.

4, Edmonton, Mcdavid 7 (Puljujarvi, Benning), 6:17.