Vegas’ Noah Hanifin scored twice in the third period, including the game-winner in the final minute, as the Golden Knights earned their first road victory of the season, 4-2 over the host Edmonton Oilers and Connor McDavid.

Hanifin, who scored three points in Saturday’s 4-3 win over the Utah Hockey Club, made it 2-all in the third with a long shot that found its way through the screen at 10:05.

Then the defender buried the winning goal from the left circle after a feed from Ivan Barbashev with 49 seconds left, making it 3-2.

Mark Stone scored his sixth goal into an empty net with four seconds left for Vegas’ sixth win in the past seven games (6-1-0), moving the club to 8-1-0 against the Western Conference.

Jack Eichel had a goal and two assists, while Barbashev dished out three helpers. Goalkeeper Adin Hill stopped 27 shots.

Missing three games after suffering an ankle injury in the first 37 seconds against the Columbus Blue Jackets on October 28, McDavid was originally expected to miss two to three weeks.

But the three-time Hart Trophy winner as the league’s MVP took an optional skate with his teammates on Monday and entered the lineup on Wednesday. He had two shots on goal in 21:02 of ice time.

Brett Kulak and Zach Hyman scored Edmonton’s goals. Stuart Skinner made 31 saves as the club fell to 2-5-1 on home ice.

With all eyes of the home crowd on No. 97 upon his return to the ice as the game began, Eichel struck the first strike of the game on a nifty pass from Shea Theodore through the neutral zone.

One-on-one with Skinner, Eichel, the next pick in the 2015 draft after McDavid went No. 1 overall, covered the netminder in one direction and easily scored his fourth goal on the goalie’s glove side at 16:05 hour for a 1-0 lead.

In a much more offensively productive next period, the Oilers won zone possession and fired eight of the first 10 shots of the second at Hill in the first four minutes, but could not beat him.

However, the pressure finally paid off at 12:18 when Kulak, in the high slot, redirected Darnell Nurse’s long one-timer for his third goal.

Hyman gave Edmonton its first lead with his third goal in four games (after scoring nothing in the Oilers’ first 10 games), making an odd jump shot to make it 2-1 with 4:04 remaining in the second.

–Field-level media