The Edmonton Oilers can close to within three points of the Pacific Division-leading Vegas Golden Knights with a victory on Tuesday night when the teams meet for the second time in four nights, this time in Las Vegas.

Vegas (46-21-6, 98 points) won the Saturday meeting 4-3 on a Nicolas Roy overtime goal in Edmonton. The Golden Knights then got two days off to rest up entering the Tuesday rematch.

The Oilers (42-23-9, 93 points), meanwhile, played the front end of a back-to-back on Monday in Tempe, Ariz., where they defeated the Arizona Coyotes 5-4. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored on a power-play with 7:55 remaining to break a 4-4 tie after the Oilers had surrendered a 4-2 lead earlier in the period.

“It’s not a perfect game, but we walked out with two points and we will take it,” Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft said.

The game featured a couple of big milestones for Oilers stars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.

McDavid set up a Zach Hyman goal in the first period, resulting in his 80th assist and 140th point of the season. He became the first player since Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr in 1995-96 to reach the 140-point mark in a season and also just the seventh player in NHL history to register at least 60 goals and 80 assists in a season.

Draisaitl scored his 300th career goal and also had an assist. He became the fifth player in Edmonton history to score 300 goals, joining Wayne Gretzky (583), Jari Kurri (474), Glenn Anderson (417) and Mark Messier (392). McDavid (299) is on the verge of joining the group.

Vegas improved to 17-3-2 since the All-Star break with the win at Edmonton and enters the contest nursing a two-point lead over the second-place Los Angeles Kings in the Pacific.

The Kings and the Golden Knights each have nine games remaining, including an April 6 showdown in Las Vegas. The Oilers have eight games left.

Vegas center Jack Eichel, who has never played in a playoff game in his NHL career, had a goal and two assists in the Saturday win over the Oilers. He recorded the primary assist on Roy’s winner 2:26 into overtime.

“Gutsy win for us,” Eichel said. “I thought we played well. It’s a really good team over there. They generate a lot of offense. I thought we did a good job for the most part of limiting them.”

Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said of Eichel, who leads the team in goals (27) and points (58) and is second in plus/minus (plus-21), “He was in attack mode. Sometimes he gets a little on the outside and doesn’t take control. Shot the puck, matched up with whomever he went out against.”

Eichel, the No. 2 overall pick of the 2015 NHL Draft behind McDavid, has seven points (four goals, three assists) over his past four games.

Vegas will bring a four-game winning streak into the Tuesday contest and has won 11 of its past 13 games. Cassidy said he believes the team still has room for improvement, however.

“We’re not where we want to be exactly, but we find ways to win, and I love that about our group,” Cassidy said. “Whatever’s needed that night, we seem to find a way to get to the finish line.”

–Field Level Media

Matt Boldy scored his second hat trick in nine days as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Seattle Kraken 5-1 Monday night in St. Paul, Minn.

Jake Middleton and Ryan Hartman also scored and Marcus Johansson, Jared Spurgeon and Joel Eriksson Ek had two assists apiece for the Central Division-leading Wild, who improved to 15-1-4 in their past 20 games and pulled within three points of Western Conference-leading Vegas. Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made 35 saves.

Jaden Schwartz scored for the Kraken, who lead the West’s wild-card race. Goalie Philipp Grubauer stopped 9 of 13 shots before being pulled early in the third after Boldy scored to make it 4-0. Martin Jones stopped 6 of 7 shots the rest of the way as Seattle had an eight-game road point streak snapped (7-0-1).

Boldy completed the hat trick 50 seconds into the third. Eriksson Ek stole a clearance attempt and passed to Boldy for a one-timer from the slot. Boldy also had three goals in a 5-3 victory against Washington on March 19.

Canadiens 4, Sabres 3 (SO)

Brendan Gallagher’s 200th career goal tied things up just before the midway point of the third period, and Montreal eventually won in a shootout against host Buffalo.

With the Canadiens down 3-2, Gallagher leveled things when he rang the post via his milestone goal with 11:25 remaining in regulation. Jordan Harris and Alex Belzile also had goals, and Michael Pezzetta’s score in the sixth round of the shootout was the difference for the Canadiens.

Lukas Rousek scored on his first NHL shot and added an assist in his league debut for the Sabres. JJ Peterka and Riley Stillman also scored, while Eric Comrie made 38 saves for Buffalo, which played without star Tage Thompson (upper-body injury).

Senators 5, Panthers 2

Brady Tkachuk had a goal and an assist, Mads Sogaard made 32 saves and Ottawa scored three power-play goals to beat visiting Florida.

The win moved the Senators closer in their pursuit of an Eastern Conference wild-card spot. The Pittsburgh Penguins, who were idle on Monday, are in the second wild-card slot with 82 points, while the Panthers are just behind them despite being on a season-high, four-game losing streak.

Ottawa’s Alex DeBrincat, Tim Stutzle and Erik Brannstrom all scored on the power play, with each score coming near the end of each period. After its 3-for-4 performance on Monday, the Senators’ streaking power-play unit is 10-for-28 over the past eight games. Gustav Forsling scored both of the Panthers’ goals.

Islanders 5, Devils 1

Kyle Palmieri scored twice against his former team for New York, which earned a pivotal victory by beating New Jersey in Elmont, N.Y.

Pierre Engvall scored in the first period and Bo Horvat and Zach Parise each scored empty-netters late in the third for the Islanders, who stopped a two-game losing streak and lengthened their lead in the Eastern Conference wild-card race. Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves.

Erik Haula scored in the second period for the Devils, who lost for the sixth time in eight games (2-4-2) and missed a chance to move within one point of the idle first-place Carolina Hurricanes in the Metropolitan Division. New Jersey goalie Vitek Vanecek recorded 31 saves.

Oilers 5, Coyotes 4

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored a third-period tiebreaking goal, Leon Draisaitl netted the 300th of his career and Edmonton prevailed in Tempe, Ariz.

By scoring in his 630th game, Draisaitl used the fourth-fewest games to reach 300 goals among active players. Evan Bouchard had a goal and an assist, and Zach Hyman and Darnell Nurse scored for the Oilers. Jack Campbell made 29 saves for the win.

Arizona got two goals apiece from Matias Maccelli and Barrett Hayton. Lawson Crouse dealt three assists and Jack McBain and Nick Schmaltz each had two.

Avalanche 5, Ducks 1

Nathan MacKinnon and Bowen Byram each had a goal and an assist as visiting Colorado cruised past Anaheim for its third consecutive win.

Valeri Nichushkin, Jack Johnson and Samuel Girard also scored goals and Cale Makar added two assists for Colorado, which is one point behind first-place Minnesota in the Central Division ahead of a Wednesday game vs. the Wild in Denver. Jonas Johansson stopped 29 of 30 shots.

Derek Grant scored for Anaheim, which took its fifth straight loss. John Gibson made 39 saves for the Ducks, who finished an eight-game homestand with just a 1-6-1 record to fall to 12-22-3 at the Honda Center this season.

–Field Level Media

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored a third-period tiebreaking goal, Leon Draisaitl netted the 300th goal of his career and the Edmonton Oilers swept the season series from the Arizona Coyotes with a 5-4 win at Tempe, Ariz., on Monday.

On his club’s fourth power play, Nugent-Hopkins, who added an assist, came in from the right side and tucked in his 34th goal at 12:05.

A nine-year veteran with Edmonton (42-23-9, 93 points), Draisaitl, who had a helper, notched an unassisted tally from the edge of the right circle at 14:32 of the second period to give the Oilers a 4-2 lead.

That milestone marker — his 46th goal of the season — also inched the German second-line center closer to a potential third 50-goal campaign.

He hit the half-century mark last season and in 2018-19.

By scoring in his 630th game, Draisaitl used the fourth-fewest games to reach 300 goals among active players — behind Alex Ovechkin (473), Steven Stamkos (550) and Sidney Crosby (622).

Zach Hyman notched his career-high 32nd goal, Evan Bouchard had a goal and an assist, and Darnell Nurse scored short-handed for the Oilers, who won all three from Arizona and are 12-4-1 in their past 17 overall.

Goaltender Jack Campbell (19-9-4) made 29 saves to move to 5-2-1 against the Coyotes.

Arizona (27-35-13, 67 points) got two goals apiece from Matias Maccelli and Barrett Hayton. Lawson Crouse dealt three assists and Jack McBain and Nick Schmaltz each had two.

Clayton Keller stretched his point streak to 13 games — the NHL’s longest active run — with a helper.

Goalie Karel Vejmelka (18-22-5) stopped 24 shots as Arizona fell to 0-3-2 in its past five matches.

Maccelli put the home side up 1-0 at 3:50 of the first period by firing home a shot that gave him goals in consecutive games.

The Oilers’ top-ranked power play scored just six seconds into the first man advantage when Hyman redirected Connor McDavid’s pass through the slot at 4:40.

Arizona tallied on the power play with a marker midway through it on Hayton’s putback at 12:59 of the first.

Again, though, the Oilers answered by potting the equalizer 35 seconds later with Bouchard’s fifth tally to tie it 2-all.

With Edmonton short-handed, Nurse rounded out the frame by getting his ninth goal to trickle in with 1:49 left in the first after Vejmelka got most of it.

In the third and down 4-2, the Coyotes used dogged play to tie it on Maccelli’s 10th tally at 3:52 and Hayton’s 17th less than a minute later.

–Field Level Media