Draisaitl and McDavid fully douse Flames

Leon Draisaitl scored a hat-trick and Connor McDavid added five assists as the Edmonton Oilers upended the visiting Calgary Flames 5-1 on Tuesday night.

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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Zach Hyman also scored for the Oilers, who improved to 8-2-1 both overall and in their past 11 meetings with the Flames. Edmonton goalie Connor Ingram made 18 saves.

McDavid, the NHL’ first star of the week, registered his second career five-assist game, tying Draisaitl and Paul Coffey for the second most in franchise history. Wayne Gretzky logged 12 five-assist games for the Oilers.

MacKenzie Weegar tallied for the Flames and Dustin Wolf stopped 34 shots.

Bowen Byram scored his second goal of the game 31 seconds into overtime and Buffalo extended their winning streak to seven games with a 3-2 victory against hosts Ottawa.

Byram one-timed a feed from Ryan McLeod from the right circle. Byram also had an assist, and Noah Ostlund added the other goal for the Sabres. Alex Lyon made 24 saves in the win.

Ridly Greig and Tim Stutzle scored and Linus Ullmark made 22 saves for the Senators, whose four-game winning streak ended.