Oilers beat Canucks 4-2 as Draisaitl scores twice and McDavid extends point streak to 18

The Vancouver Canucks lost 4-2 to the Edmonton Oilers on November 7, their fifth straight defeat and 15th loss in 16 games. Leon Draisaitl scored twice for Edmonton, and Connor McDavid stretched his season-long point streak to 18 games. (Photo: file photo of the Canucks against the Toronto Maple Leafs on October 31.)

Draisaitl’s double, McDavid’s streak

Mattias Ekholm put Edmonton ahead 1-0 in the first period, and Jason Dickinson also scored for the Oilers. Draisaitl scored on the power play to make it 3-1 and sealed the win with an empty-net goal 45 seconds from the end. Max Sasson and Brock Boeser scored for Vancouver. McDavid’s assist took him to a league-leading 47 points (10 goals, 37 assists) in 18 straight games, two short of his career-best 20-game point streak.

Canucks deep in a slump, Oilers near the top

Vancouver fell to 3-15-1, with one win in its past 16 games; Edmonton improved to 12-3-3. The Oilers’ Ryan Nugent-Hopkins left 45 seconds into the second period after taking a puck to the head off a shot by teammate Ryan Shea.