McDavid's hat trick caps off Oilers' comeback win over Canucks

Connor McDavid scored a hat trick and added an assist as the Edmonton Oilers battled back from a 3-0 deficit to take a 5-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday.

Leon Draisaitl recorded a goal and two assists while Darnell Nurse also scored for the Oilers (1-0) in their home opener.

Goaltender Jack Campbell made 33 saves in the victory.

Elias Pettersson, J.T. Miller and Andrei Kuzmenko all scored for the Canucks (0-1). Thatcher Demko stopped 20-of-24 shots he faced in the loss.

Edmonton looked to have the jitters to start the contest and the Canucks took advantage, establishing an early 2-0 lead less than three minutes in.

Just 1:49 into the opening period, Oilers rookie forward Dylan Holloway coughed up the puck to Pettersson who had a clear lane to the net and was able to fish his own rebound out of the feet of Campbell and slip it in for a goal.

51 seconds later, Miller picked the top corner with a bullet past Campbell to double the lead.

Vancouver made it 3-0 on the power play just 39 seconds into the middle period as Miller made a perfect pass to give Kuzmenko a backdoor tap-in for his first goal in his NHL debut. Kuzmenko is the first player in Canucks history to score a power-play goal in his debut.

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Edmonton got on the board 4:12 into the second frame as Draisaitl took a deflected pass at the side of the net and slammed it past Demko on a power play. The goal came with some controversy, however, as Evander Kane caught Vancouver's Quinn Hughes with a high stick to the face that went uncalled despite causing Hughes to bleed.

The Oilers pulled to within a goal with another power-play marker 14:01 into the second as a perfect three-way passing play saw the puck go from Zach