McDavid tied the game 1-1 with a power-play goal at 6:18, jamming in a loose puck at the left post after his pass to the crease was deflected.<\/p>\n
“He’s the best player in the League, and he’s also the fastest, so if you don’t really slow him down or get in his way, he’s just gonna skate by you,” Celebrini said. “You’ve seen it his whole career. I mean, I watched it. I loved watching it when I was a fan, but super frustrating when you play against it.”<\/p>\n
Podkolzin gave the Oilers their first lead, 2-1, with a power-play goal at 18:38. McDavid found Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a>\u00a0at the right face-off dot, and he threw a puck in front that Podkolzin deflected through Nedeljkovic’s five-hole.<\/p>\n Roslovic pushed the lead to 3-1 with a power-play goal at 3:33 of the second period. McDavid\u2019s pass from his own goal line to the Sharks\u2019 blue line sent Roslovic in on a breakaway, and his move to the backhand beat Nedeljkovic’s right pad.<\/p>\n Sherwood cut it to 3-2 for San Jose at 4:37 with a redirect in the slot of Alexander Wennberg<\/a>\u2019s shot from the point.<\/p>\n McDavid made it 4-2 at 5:53, driving to the net and cutting across above the crease, avoiding Nedeljkovic\u2019s poke check attempt and tapping the puck into an open net.<\/p>\n “Get him the puck,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cWhen you see him playing the way he was tonight and most of the season, you want to get him the puck. He makes things happen when not many other people can.\u201d<\/p>\n McDavid completed his hat trick to make it 5-2 at 14:13. In a 2-on-1 with Roslovic, McDavid\u2019s pass deflected off Dmitry Orlov<\/a>‘s skate and through Nedeljkovic’s five-hole.<\/p>\n NOTES: McDavid leads the NHL with 133 points (47 goals, 86 assists). It\u2019s his third 130-point season, tied with Marcel Dionne<\/a>\u00a0for fourth-most in NHL history behind Wayne Gretzky<\/a>\u00a0(13), Mario Lemieux<\/a>\u00a0(six), and Phil Esposito<\/a>\u00a0(four). \u2026 McDavid\u2019s 14 five-point games are tied with Paul Coffey<\/a> and Gilbert Perreault<\/a>\u00a0for the 10th-most in NHL history. \u2026 Bouchard has 91 points (21 goals, 70 assists), becoming the second defenseman in Oilers history to reach 90 points, and the first since Coffey did it for the fourth straight season in 1985-86. \u2026 Wennberg extended his point streak to eight games (10 points; five goals, five assists). \u2026 Oilers forward Jason Dickinson<\/a>\u00a0left the game in the third period after taking a shot off his left leg. There was no update on his status postgame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McDavid tied the game 1-1 with a power-play goal at 6:18, jamming in a loose puck at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[5,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-548595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nashville","10":"tag-nashville-predators","11":"tag-nashvillepredators","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116373757812821073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}