Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist as the Edmonton Oilers won their third straight game and beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Tuesday.
Connor McDavid also scored for the Oilers (16-10-2), who have won six of their last seven.
Jake Guentzel responded with the only goal for the Lightning (14-10-2), who snapped a two-game winning streak.
Stuart Skinner made 20 stops in net for the Oilers, while Andrei Vasilevskiy recorded 23 saves between the pipes for the Lightning.
takeaway
Lightning: Brayden Point has been scoring like crazy lately. His second-period assist gave him nine points in his last three games, following consecutive four-point nights in the competition. Point has 10 goals and 17 points in his last 10 games.
Oilers: McDavid continues to bounce back from a slow start to the season with just 10 points in his first 11 games. Since then, he has recorded 28 points in his last 14 games. It was the 57th time in his career that he scored the opening goal of a game.
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key moment
Edmonton took a 2–1 lead with eight minutes to play in the second period, as Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy made a big stop on Draisaitl on a breakaway and attempted to sweep the rebound for a safety, but defenders Victor Hedman and Collided with carrom. Net. The goal marked Draisaitl’s league-leading 20th of the season, marking the ninth consecutive year he has accomplished the feat, tying him for third in franchise history with Wayne Gretzky. Mark Messier and Jari Kurri both had 10.
main position
The game featured the last eight Art Ross Trophy winners in Edmonton’s McDavid and Draisaitl and Tampa’s Kucherov. McDavid won in 2017, 18, 21, 22, and 23, Draisaitl in 2020, and Kucherov in 2019 and 2024. The last time the last eight Art Ross winners were on the ice in one game at the same time was January 25, 1997. And Wayne Gretzky (Rangers) was shown taking on the Pittsburgh Penguins with Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr. That trio actually won 21 consecutive Art Ross Awards between 1981 and 2001.
answer next
Lightning: Visit the Calgary Flames on Thursday.
Oilers: Visit the Minnesota Wild on Thursday.
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