Connor McDavid, Oilers hammer Canucks to force Game 7

Game 7 is scheduled for Monday at Rogers Arena in Vancouver at 9 p.m. ET.

With the exception of Game 2, McDavid only had an assist in the series coming into Saturday night. He was held pointless in all three of  Edmonton's losses.

Skinner was back in goal after Calvin Pickard started in Games 4 and 5. 

Coach Kris Knoblauch had earlier in series replaced Skinner with Pickard to start the third period in Game 3, after Skinner allowed four goals on 15 shots. To that point in the series, he had given up 12 goals on 58 shots for a .793 save percentage and 4.40 goals-against average.

Despite Skinner's light workload on Saturday, he made several key saves.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and defenseman Evan Bouchard had a goal and two assists each and Dylan Holloway, Zach Hyman and Evander Kane also scored for the Oilers. Leon Draisaitl had two assists.

With those two assists, Draisaitl reached 100 career playoff points.  His 60 postseason games to that milestone are the third-fewest in NHL history. Only Wayne Gretzky (46) and Mario Lemieux (50) have reached it faster.

Holloway gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead 8:18 into the game. Looking very much like McDavid, Holloway took a pass from Draisaitl, cut through three Vancouver players, went in, made a move and put a forehand shot past Silovs. It was Holloway's third goal of the playoffs.

Nils Hoglander tied it for the Canucks only 1:45 later, putting in his own rebound from in front after taking a pass from Elias Pettersson.

Hyman later gave Edmonton the lead for good 2-1, 7:14 into the second period. His shot from the slot bounced in off the glove of goalie Arturs Silovs, after Hyman took McDavid's pass off of his skate. It was Hyman's playoffs-leading 10th goal.

The Oilers had actually appeared to take a 2-1 lead with around a second left in the first but  Bouchard's apparent goal was immediately waved of McDavid's goaltender interference on Silovs.

Bouchard made it 3-1 with 8:40 left in the middle period with a slap shot from the right point after taking a pass from McDavid. It was Bouchard's fifth goal of the postseason.

Nugent-Hopkins would stretch the lead to 4-1, 3:24 into the the third period when he tapped in a pass from McDavid, who cut in on goal off the right wing to set him up for his third goal of the postseason.

Kane would then cap it all off with 6:56 remaining in the third quarter, scoring directly off a face-off win by Draisaitl to give the Oilers a 5-1 lead which would stand as the final.

For its part, Vancouver only had nine shots through the first two periods.