Gabriel Landeskog appeared to put Colorado ahead 3-0 at 16:03 when Drury sent a cross-ice pass to Victor Olofsson, who dropped it back to Landeskog at the right dot for a shot that beat Skinner’s glove, but a coach’s challenge ruled Drury was offside on the play.
Brindley made it 3-0 at 2:38 of the second period, picking up the rebound off a wrist shot from the point by Sam Malinski and raising a backhand over Skinner’s right pad.
Drury extended the lead to 4-0 at 4:45, redirecting a pass from the point from Olofsson past Skinner’s blocker.
Pickard took over Edmonton’s net at 12:32 of the second period.
Kelly made it 5-0 with a short-handed goal at 9:34. After a centering pass from behind the net from Brindley came to him off the skate of Oilers defenseman Alec Regula, Kelly steered a backhand around the extended left pad of Pickard for the score.
McDavid cut the lead to 5-1 on the power play at 11:30, taking a cross-ice feed from Leon Draisaitl, skating in to the left dot and tucking a snap shot under Wedgewood’s blocker.
“We wanted to have a good start and I thought we did, but I feel like we deserved this tonight,” said Oilers defenseman Jake Walman. “We’re not really trending in the right direction there, for a while, and they kicked our (butt) tonight.”
Kelly put Colorado ahead 6-1 short-handed at 14:38, intercepting a pass back to the point from Oilers forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and taking it down the ice for a breakaway before deking a backhand shot past Pickard’s left pad.
“I thought we were doing a really good job of making them come through five (guys),” Kelly said. “They’re going to have their moments, they’re a skilled team and I thought we did a really god job of keeping them to the outside.
“Things were going in for us and it makes the game a little bit easier when everyone is doing the right thing.”
MacKinnon pushed Colorado’s lead to 7-1 just 24 seconds into the third period, carrying the puck up the left boards and sending a snap shot short side past Pickard, before pushing it to 8-1 at 5:02.
Drury made it 9-1 at 14:28 with a snap shot in the slot off a back pass from Ross Colton.
NOTES: Twelve Avalanche players earned at least a point in the game. … Colorado went 0-for-7 on the power play, while Edmonton went 1-for-5. … The Oilers’ 9-1 loss is tied for their largest margin of defeat on home ice in franchise history (lost 10-2 at home to the Buffalo Sabres on Jan. 27, 2009). … The Oilers lost their first home game in regulation of the season. … Mattias Ekholm played in his 900th career NHL game. … McDavid pushed his personal point streak to four games (two goals, six assists for eight points).
