After a wild schedule of road games and cross-country flights, the Edmonton Oilers kicked off their six-game home stand against Alex Ovechkin and the red-hot Washington Capitals.

Tom Wilson also scored his 20th of the season last night off a 2-on-1 feed from Aliaksei Protas, and continues to have himself a great year so far. He projects to have 35 goals and 61 points when the season wraps up, which will be career-best numbers for him as well.

Starting Tuesday

The Edmonton Oilers have to get used to life without superstar captian Connor McDavid, who received a three-game suspension from the NHL for his actions over the weekend against the Vancouver Canucks.

EDMONTON — Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and an assist as the league-leading Washington Capitals won their fifth game in a row, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Tuesday.

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and an assist as the league-leading Washington Capitals won their fifth game in a row, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Tuesday night. Tom Wilson and Matt Roy also scored for the Capitals, who have earned at least a point in an NHL-high 11 straight games, going 8-0-3 in that span.

EDMONTON — The Washington Capitals opened their longest road ... the season by making 30 saves for the Capitals (32-10-5). Stuart Skinner stopped 11 shots for the Oilers (29-15-3).

Final score: 3-2 Capitals. I try to be as level-headed as possible when talking about Stuart Skinner because I think ... of him did their job by holding Washington to only 14 shots, but to give ...

Logan Thompson made 30 stops in net for the Capitals, while Stuart Skinner recorded just 11 saves in the loss for the Oilers. Washington: Dubois has 38 points in 47 games this season, after ...

Connor McDavid will be eligible to return from his three-game suspension when the Edmonton Oilers play host to the Seattle Kraken on Monday night. McDavid received the ban from the NHL for crosschecking the Vancouver Canucks' Conor Garland in the head late in a game on Jan. 18.

Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers got shafted by the NHL and the Department of Player Safety. Good. They stumbled out of the starting gate two years in a row and looked dead and buried by November.

Edmonton has a better points percentage in games without its captain this season, which bodes well for the Oilers' championship aspirations.