Oilers Beat Canucks 4-2 as Draisaitl Scores Twice and McDavid Adds Three Assists

Edmonton beat Vancouver 4-2 at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Saturday night, November 7, 2026. Leon Draisaitl scored two goals and finished with three points. Connor McDavid added three assists. Devon Levi made 20 saves for Edmonton in his return after missing seven games with an undisclosed injury. Edmonton improved to 12-3-3 and snapped a two-game skid in which the Oilers went 0-1-1. Vancouver fell to 3-15-1, lost a fifth straight game, and has now lost 15 of its past 16 games at 1-14-1 in that stretch.

Ekholm opens the scoring, Sasson answers late in the first

Mattias Ekholm put Edmonton ahead 1-0 at 9:14 of the first period. He took a one-time pass from McDavid at the front of the right circle and beat Leevi Merilainen on the glove side. Vancouver tied the game 1-1 with nine seconds left in the first period. Max Sasson redirected a slap shot from the point by Jamie Oleksiak over Levi's glove. Edmonton lost Ryan Nugent-Hopkins early in the second period. He left the game 45 seconds into the period after taking a puck to the head off a shot by his teammate Ryan Shea. Neither team scored in the second period, and the game went to the third tied 1-1.

Dickinson and Draisaitl put Edmonton ahead in the third

Jason Dickinson gave Edmonton the lead again at 2-1, 49 seconds into the third period, sweeping in a backhand on his second rebound attempt. Draisaitl made it 3-1 on the power play at 4:00 of the third. He one-timed a pass from McDavid just in front of the right dot past Merilainen's glove. The goal kept a run going for the Edmonton power play, which has scored in 11 consecutive games. Merilainen finished with 26 saves for Vancouver, but the Canucks could not keep Edmonton off the board in the third period.

Boeser cuts the lead before the empty-net goal

Brock Boeser made it 3-2 at 17:25 of the third period. He deflected a slap shot from the point by Filip Hronek past Levi, with the Vancouver goalie pulled for an extra attacker. Vancouver pushed for the tie in the final minutes, but Draisaitl scored into the empty net with 45 seconds left for the 4-2 final. The empty-net goal was his second of the game and his third point of the night.

McDavid streak reaches 18 games

McDavid extended his assist streak to 18 games. The streak ties Adam Oates, who did it in 1992-93, for the second longest in league history, behind Wayne Gretzky's 23 games in 1990-91. McDavid leads the league with 47 points, on 10 goals and 37 assists, and he has recorded a point in every game Edmonton has played this season. For Vancouver, the loss was another in a long run of defeats. The Canucks have won once in their past 16 games, and their record after Saturday is 3-15-1. For Edmonton, the win ended the short skid and came with the starting goalie back in the net after a seven-game absence.