Minus their top five forwards and best defenceman, the Vancouver Canucks could not beat Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid Sunday night. The rest of the Edmonton Oilers, the Canucks handled just fine.

Draisaitl and McDavid combined for seven points and their line generated all the Oilers goals in a 4-3 pre-season win against the Canucks in Alberta. But other than the Canucks’ inability to stop two of the three best players in the world, Vancouver’s performance was actually pretty good — especially with their lack of firepower up front.

The Canucks got third-period goals from three key prospects, Aatu Raty, Braeden Cootes and Jonathan Lekkerimaki and pressed for a tying goal until the end after falling behind 3-0 with 23 minutes to go.

They outshot the Oilers 22-10 over the final two peri

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