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Canucks Hats Authentic , Ariz. (AP) ¡ª Connor McDavid remained on pace to
set a career high for points for the third straight season ¡ª and kept the
Edmonton Oilers on a roll, too.McDavid scored two goals, including the winner in
overtime, to lead the Oilers to a 3-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on
Saturday night.The Edmonton star controlled the puck at his feet right out in
front and put it past Darcy Kuemper 58 seconds into the extra period for the
Oilers, who are 8-3-1 in their last 12 games while making a late playoff push.
It was the third overtime goal of the season for McDavid, who also had an assist
earlier in the game.¡°Klef made a great play, found me,¡± McDavid said of linemate
Oscar Klefbom. ¡°Didn¡¯t handle it all that perfect. Just tried to get it on net
and found a way.¡±Matt Benning also scored for Edmonton, and Mikko Koskinen made
28 saves to win for the sixth time in his last seven starts.¡°I¡¯ve liked our game
coming back from the bye week, minus a couple of hiccups here and there,¡±
McDavid said. ¡°We haven¡¯t necessarily been rewarded by it, but we are starting
to now.¡±Alex Galchenyuk had his third two-goal game of the season for the
Coyotes, who lost for just the fourth time in their last 14 games. Arizona
remained one point behind Dallas for the first wild-card spot in the Western
Conference.McDavid has 36 goals this season and is on an 11-game point streak.
He has a point in 19 of his last 20 games and has seven straight multipoint
games
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stretch. McDavid is second in the league with 103 points after having 108 last
season and 100 in 2016-17.Leon Draisaitl tied his career high with his 48th
assist of the season.¡°We ask a lot of Connor and Leon, and they deliver,¡± Oilers
coach Ken Hitchcock said. ¡°They deliver most nights, and they really delivered
tonight. It was a hard game against a very significant opponent.¡±Darcy Kuemper
made 22 saves for the Coyotes while making his 13th consecutive start.McDavid
scored his first short-handed goal of the season 3 1/2 minutes into the game to
give the Oilers a 1-0 lead. He broke around Oliver Ekman-Larsson on the right
side and beat Kuemper with a back-hander high on the glove side.Galchenyuk
scored his eighth power-play goal of the season to tie it at 1 at 18:24 of the
first period. Galchenyuk leads the Coyotes with 17 goals.Benning and Galchenyuk
scored 12 seconds apart early in the second period to tie it at 2.It was
Benning¡¯s third goal in the last three games.¡°It¡¯s just putting yourself in the
right spots, and there are good players around on our team,¡± Benning said. ¡°I
thought there was a lot of energy today. That was a tough road win. The winning
goal was kind of fitting of the way we want to play.¡±The Coyotes had a chance to
take the lead, but Brad Richardson and Conor Garland each hit the right post in
the final 4 1/2 minutes of the second period and the game remained
tied.¡°McDavid, Draisaitl, those guys are elite players,¡± Arizona coach Rich
Tocchet said. ¡°Edmonton is a desperate team. They have two of the best players
in the world. They are fighting and scratching. They played hard tonight. So did
we. That was a playoff-type hockey game.¡±NOTES: With 11 games remaining, McDavid
is on pace to surpass his career high of 108 points, set last season. ¡ Edmonton
began a stretch of five games in eight days Saturday. ¡ Rock star Alice Cooper,
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dropped the ceremonial first puck.UP NEXTOilers: Play the second game of
three-game trip at Las Vegas on Sunday, finishing the 10th of their 11
back-to-backs this season.Coyotes: Play the first game of a four-game Eastern
trip at Tampa Bay on Monday. Michael Grabner scored two short-handed goals in
the Coyotes¡¯ 7-1 victory Oct. 27, the Lightning¡¯s most lopsided loss of the
season. OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) ¡ª With the playoffs just over a week away, the
Toronto Maple Leafs know they¡¯re running out of time to clean up their game.The
Maple Leafs missed a chance to clinch a playoff spot Saturday night, falling 4-2
to the last-place Ottawa Senators. It was Toronto¡¯s second loss in the nation¡¯s
capital in two weeks and continued a run of inconsistency.¡°I thought we had lots
of looks, lots of opportunities and did lots of good things,¡± coach Mike Babcock
said. ¡°In the end, we didn¡¯t finish around their net enough.¡±The Senators¡¯ game
operations staff appeared to troll their provincial rivals in the final minute,
playing the Leafs¡¯ goal song ¡ª ¡°You Make My Dreams¡± by Hall & Oates ¡ª as
Ottawa put the final touches on a victory.The Maple Leafs fell to 3-5-2 in their
past 10 games.¡°It was a tight hockey game, obviously,¡± center John Tavares said.
¡°We were doing a pretty good job generating chances, getting a lot of pucks to
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just can¡¯t give up the opportunities, especially to the middle of the ice to
make it tough on our goaltenders. It¡¯s hard to explain, but it¡¯s just the
attention to detail each and every shift.¡±Anthony Duclair scored twice and Craig
Anderson made 42 saves for Ottawa.¡°I¡¯m proud of the way we handled ourselves,¡±
Duclair said. ¡°It was one of those games that you¡¯re motivated to play in with a
building packed with Leafs fans.¡±Magnus Paajarvi and Cody Ceci also scored for
the Senators.Auston Matthews and Connor Brown scored for Toronto, and Garret
Sparks stopped 18 shots.Toronto overcame a 2-0 deficit to tie it in the third on
goals 27 seconds apart. Matthews beat Anderson on a power play, and Brown
converted off a turnover.Ceci countered for Ottawa less than two minutes later,
tucking a shot just under the crossbar. Duclair added an empty-net goal.¡°I
thought we responded in the right way (after the Maple Leafs tied it),¡± Anderson
said. ¡°We didn¡¯t get down on ourselves. I think we knew that we made a mistake
and gave up an odd-man rush, but the very next shift we got back to basics and
got back to what was giving us some success and making it difficult for
them.¡±NOTES: Forward Zack Smith returned to the Senators after missing three
games with a back injury. Ottawa was without defenseman Mark Borowiecki because
of ab upper-body injury. ¡ Defenseman Travis Dermott returned to Toronto¡¯s
lineup after missing 14 games with a shoulder injury.UP NEXTMaple Leafs: At New
York Islanders on Monday night.Senators: Host Tampa Bay on Monday night.