<p>WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Connor McDavid recorded his third hat trick of the season and the ninth of his career, leading Edmonton to a 6-1 win over Winnipeg on Monday night that lifted the Oilers past the Jets and into second place in the North Division.</p>
<p>Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist and Alex Chiasson and Darnell Nurse also scored for Edmonton, which has two games in hand on the Jets. Mike Smith made 36 saves.</p>
<p>McDavid, who leads the NHL in scoring with 81 points, also had an assist and is second to Toronto’s Auston Matthews in goals scored.</p>
<p>Playing his 46th game of the season, McDavid is the fastest player to 80 points in a campaign since Mario Lemieux hit the mark in 45 games in 1996-97. In eight games against the Jets in 2021, McDavid has 19 points.</p>
<p>The Oilers improved to 6-2-0 against Winnipeg and have won five straight versus the Jets, allowing just six goals over that span.</p>
<p>Mark Scheifele scored for Winnipeg (27-18-3). The Jets dropped a fourth straight game in regulation, their longest home losing streak since a five-game skid from Dec. 17, 2019, to Jan. 12, 2020.</p>
<p>Connor Hellebuyck allowed six goals on 23 shots through two periods before being replaced by Laurent Brossoit for the final 20 minutes. He finished with seven saves.</p>
<p>Winnipeg began its current five-game homestand with a 3-0 loss to Edmonton on April 17 before 5-3 and 4-1 losses to Toronto on Thursday and Saturday.</p>
<p>The Jets and Oilers will conclude their regular-season series on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Already minus center Adam Lowry (head), Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice announced before the game his team will be without 21-goal scorer Nikolaj Ehlers (upper-body injury) for the remainder of the regular season following a third-period collision Saturday with Leafs defenseman Jake Muzzin.</p>
<p>Playing just their fourth game in 16 days because of COVID-19 scheduling changes, the Oilers took the lead with 3:38 left in the first period on a sequence that started when Draisaitl won a battle behind Winnipeg’s net. He fed a pass in front to Adam Larsson, who quickly found Chiasson to one-time his eighth goal of the season past Hellebuyck.</p>
<p>The goal was Chiasson’s fourth against the Jets in 2021, and the 100th of his NHL career.</p>
<p>Edmonton doubled its lead with 1:29 remaining in the period on an odd-man rush after Winnipeg turned the puck over at the offensive blue line. Tyson Barrie — playing his 600th NHL game — sent a shot towards Hellebuyck that was deflected to McDavid, who scored his 26th.</p>
<p>Hellebuyck stopped McDavid on a breakaway early in the second, but the Oilers’ captain sped down the wing later in the same shift, faked a shot and slid the puck between the Winnipeg goaltender’s pads for his 27th at 3:38.</p>
<p>Draisaitl then made it 4-0 at 11:40, when he scored his 23rd on a 2-on-1 with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins after Derek Forbort turned the puck over.</p>
<p>Nurse continued the onslaught at 13:18, finishing off a passing play with McDavid and Jesse Puljujarvi for his 14th.</p>
<p>Scheifele, who was benched for 17 minutes Saturday by Maurice, got one back for the home side on a power play with his 19th at 15:06.</p>
<p>But McDavid completed his hat trick just 1:24 later by intercepting a Kyle Connor pass and moving in alone on Hellebuyck , scoring his 28th.</p>
<p>NOTES: Draisaitl passed Marco Sturm for the most points by a German-born NHLer with the 488th of his career on his second-period goal. Sturm played 938 games in the NHL, while Draisaitl suited up for his 468th contest Monday. … Oilers rookie Ryan McLeod made his NHL debut. … Edmonton defenseman Dmitry Kulikov, who spent three seasons with Winnipeg, played for the first time since being acquired from New Jersey prior to the trade deadline.</p>
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