Edmonton Oilers come from behind to defeat Minnesota Wild 5-3 – Hockey Writers – NHL News

The Minnesota Wild and Edmonton Oilers meet for the third time this season on Wednesday, January 15, with the second meeting in St. Paul. The Wild are still without Kirill Kaprizov, Jakub Lauko, Jonas Brodin and Jared Spurgeon, while the Oilers are without Evander Kane. The Wild did lose Marcus Johnson late in the game after a collision with Connor McDavid. The goalie duel is between Filip Gustafsson of the Wild and Calvin Pickard of the Oilers.

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The Wild jumped in first and kept pushing despite missing some of their core team. The two sides of the game alternated, and the Oilers eventually scored the final goal and won 5-3. McDavid ranked second in the Oilers' history with 1,044 points. This brings the Wild's record to 27-14-4 and the Oilers' record to 28-13-3.

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The Wild scored first minutes into the game when Matt Boldy scored a power-play goal to give his team a 1-0 lead. He is assisted by Mats Zuccarello and Joel Eriksson Ek. That goal was followed by another later in the period, this time a power-play goal from Marco Rossi with assists from Bordi and Zuccarello.

Then it was the Oilers' turn, as Zach Hyman scored to make it 2-1, with assists from Leon Draisaitl and McDavid. The Oilers later tied the game on a power-play goal from McDavid, who also had assists from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Evan Bouchard. This score was maintained until the end of this quarter, and the score was 2-2 when entering the second quarter.

The Wild got things going early in the second period, with Ryan Hartman scoring the team's first close goal of the night without an assist. The Oilers answered with a goal from Nugent-Hopkins late in the quarter to tie the game at 3, with assists from Ty Emberson and Brett Kulak. The two sides remained tied for the rest of the game and were tied at 3-3 entering the third quarter.

The Oilers scored first in the third period when Vasily Podkolzin scored on Declan Chisholm's skate. Victor Arvidsson and Joshua Brown assisted him to make it 4-3 and give the team their first lead of the game. They continued to extend their lead and McDavid scored his second goal of the night without an assist to make it 5-3. This would be the final goal of the game and they would win 5-3.

The Wild will have a few days off before taking on the Nashville Predators on Saturday night, January 18th. , their second game of a back-to-back.