Oilers center Connor McDavid protects the puck from Hurricanes right wing Seth Jarvis during Edmonton’s 4-3 overtime won 5aturday in Raleigh. (Karl DeBlaker / AP Photo)

RALEIGH — The Hurricanes nearly outplayed their mistakes again Saturday, but Edmonton’s tremendous trio connected in overtime to give the visiting Oilers a 4-3 win at Lenovo Center.

Leon Draisaitl won the opening faceoff of overtime back to Evan Bouchard, who set up behind his own net and handed the puck to a wound-up Connor McDavid. McDavid pushed back Carolina’s defenders and dropped the puck to Draisaitl, whose shot beat Frederik Andersen over the blocker to give the Oilers the win after they blew a pair of leads.

“We could have done a better job,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said of the 19-second overtime. “We sagged a little. But it’s one thing to say it when you’re playing against those guys, it’s what they do to you.”

Carolina could have also gotten off to a better start.

Edmonton scored at 3:47 of the opening period when forward Jack Roslovic got a gift from goaltender Andersen (19 saves), who handled a puck and passed it right to the former Hurricanes player. Roslovic, playing his first game against his old team, shot over Andersen’s right shoulder to give the Oilers a 1-0 lead.

Then with Andrei Svechnikov in the penalty box for cross-checking McDavid, the Oilers captain made Carolina pay on the power play.

Roslovic fired a shot from the right point that went wide, but the puck caromed directly to McDavid at the side of the net, and he scored his eighth of the year at 6:30 for a 2-0 lead.

“Terrible start,” Brind’Amour said. “You just can’t give them goals. It’s the National Hockey League. You can’t just give away goals, and I think we gave two. Not a great penalty, and then obviously Freddie would like to have that first one back.”

But the Hurricanes found a way back into the game.

Carolina halved Edmonton’s lead with just under six minutes left in the first period when Eric Robinson one-timed a Shayne Gostisbehere cross-ice pass past Stuart Skinner (33 saves) for his fifth goal to make it 2-1 at 15:39 of the first.

“When you get a shift out in the O zone with him, he’s probably going to find you, so you have to be ready,” Robinson said of Gostisbehere, who has 11 assists and 12 points in nine games this season.

The Hurricanes carried that momentum into the second period to tie the game.

After the Oilers turned the puck over in their end, Jackson Blake wound up with the puck behind the Edmonton net and passed to Nikolaj Ehlers in the left circle for his fourth goal of the season at 1:41 of the middle frame. The goal extended Ehlers’ point streak to seven games.

“I think we’ve found a little chemistry,” Brind’Amour said of the line of Ehlers, Blake and center Logan Stankoven. “(Ehlers is) a unique player. I don’t know what the right fit is sometimes, but with Stanks and Blaker, they seem to really be on the same page, and all of their skill sets are very unique. So far, it’s working.”

McDavid answered with his second of the night at 5:46 of the third to put Edmonton ahead again, finishing off a Draisaitl pass.

Carolina’s captain, however, knotted the game again.

William Carrier bulled his way toward the net two shifts later, and the puck ended up alone in front for Jordan Staal, who scored his fourth of the season 59 seconds after McDavid had given Edmonton the lead.

“He did a great job of bringing it to the net and dragging guys on his back,” Staal said of Carrier, “and I was, obviously, able to put in the garbage.”

But there was no overtime magic for Carolina like the night before, as McDavid and Draisaitl capped off three-point nights on the overtime winner.

Notes: Defensemen Jalen Chatfield, Charles Alexis Legault and Jaccob Slavin, and center Jesperi Kotkaniemi missed the game with injuries. Pyotr Kochetkov and Bradly Nadeau were healthy extras. … Nadeau was reassigned to AHL Chicago following the game. … Robinson played in his 400th career game. … Edmonton defenseman Brett Kulak played in his 600th career game. … Edmonton winger Zach Hyman, who had an assist, played his first game in nearly six months after being hurt in last year’s playoffs.