Ryan McLeod scores 2, Oilers top Coyotes for 7th straight home win

Ryan McLeod had two targets and an help and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Arizona Coyotes 6-1 on Monday evening.

“As a bunch, we had been fairly motivated after that final recreation,” McLeod stated of the Oilers’ 9-5 loss to Calgary two nights earlier. “Everybody was fairly pissed off and we got here out fairly motivated.

“It was good to see our response.”

Connor McDavid, Warren Foegele, Zach Hyman and Leon Draisaitl additionally scored for the Oilers, who’ve received seven straight dwelling video games.

“It was actually essential that we realized a lesson from our final recreation,” stated Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen, who made 31 saves. “We actually wished to bounce again.

“It was an embarrassing recreation Saturday and I feel we obtained precisely the end result that we wanted. Not simply the end result, however the best way we performed. We didn’t give any odd-man rushes. We performed nicely. That was an important factor, with the 2 factors.”

Clayton Keller scored for the Coyotes, who misplaced their sixth straight and had been formally eradicated from playoff rivalry with a document of 20-41-5. Karel Vejmelka made 30 saves. Josef Korenar got here out to start out the third within the Arizona internet and completed with six saves.

“It’s a troublesome schedule, we all know that and we’re fairly banged up proper now,” Coyotes head coach Andre Tourigny stated. “Mentally we had been a bit of bit drained and a bit of bit off.

“We had quite a few turnovers tonight and our execution was not sharp and making performs was powerful. We had a nasty recreation.”

Edmonton scored on its first shot of the sport 4 minutes into the primary interval. Jesse Puljujarvi discovered McDavid alone in entrance, and McDavid was in a position to watch for Vejmelka to go down earlier than lifting a backhand into the online for his thirty sixth of the season.

The Oilers made it 2-0 halfway via the opening interval when McLeod banked a shot from behind the online off of Vejmelka and in.

Arizona countered on the facility play with 4 minutes left within the first. Keller’s go try caromed off Hyman and previous Koskinen.

Edmonton regained its two-goal lead on an influence play early within the second. Kailer Yamamoto hit McLeod, who break up the defenders and scored his second of the sport and eighth of the season.

The Oilers added to their lead with halfway via the second. A rebound got here out to Foegele within the slot and he blasted it dwelling.

Hyman made up for the aim that went in off him earlier within the recreation later within the second, scoring his twenty second on one other rebound.

After killing off three straight energy performs — all penalties taken by Evander Kane, who took eight minutes value in a lower than a nine-minute span — the Oilers had been rewarded halfway via the third. Puljujarvi made one other good go to present Draisaitl a simple tap-in in conjunction with the online for his forty eighth aim, tying Toronto’s Auston Matthews for the league lead.

NOTES: It was the third and last assembly between the groups, with the Oilers profitable the earlier two video games in Arizona by 5-1 and 5-3. … Arizona was lacking a number of gamers in Conor Timmins (knee), Andrew Ladd (decrease physique), Liam O’Brien (higher physique), Antoine Roussel (decrease physique), Jakob Chychrun (decrease physique) and Christian Fischer (decrease physique). … Out for the Oilers: defenseman Kris Russell, who entered COVID-19 protocol Monday.

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