Ben Hutton and Keegan Kolesar scored in the third period for the Golden Knights (14-5-4), who have lost three straight (0-1-2) and five of six (1-2-3). Logan Thompson made 30 saves.
“You can’t lean on the same guys every night, and we’ve done that well all last year and this year. We are grinding points out,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “We’d rather have wins and some have not gone our way recently; I think we won three shootouts in our first 12 games, so there’s a bit of a pendulum that swings the other way.”
Hutton cut it to 4-3 at 13:30 of the third with a wrist shot from the edge of the left circle, and Kolesar tied it 4-4 at 17:51 on a redirection of Zach Whitecloud’s shot.
McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored in the shootout for Edmonton; Jonathan Marchessault shot wide, and Jack Eichel hit the post for Vegas.
“We talked about it in between periods; we needed to come out hard, we were down a couple and we needed to be a little more aggressive and find ways to score, and we did that,” Hutton said. “We were able to get into overtime and a shootout and we were able to get the point, so you have to take the positive out of it.
“The last few games we haven’t had the best record, but I feel like we’re getting our chances. We’re getting a lot of Grade A [chances], but we’re hitting posts or we’re nicking a stick or whatnot. But we’re going to keep grinding and eventually those are going to go in and we’ll be on the winning side.”