Oilers

Nugent-Hopkins' 200th goal of his career goes down as the game-winner in another tightly-contested matchup with the Blues on Wednesday night in St. Louis.

That one in Rogers was decided in the first five minutes on a special team, but we felt good about a lot of things in that game. Both guys have been great for us when we've needed them, and Stu tonight in the second period made some massive saves to keep us going, keep us in it, and really without them they probably would've had a few more. Their goalie played well too and you need that kind of performance back there Just happy to be able to help them out a little bit Tonight was a higher pace, and we skated at the level that we felt good about. Barbashev elected to shoot low blocker, but there was Skinner kicking out the right pad to send the chance away with a terrific save -- the most influential of his 37 saves on the night. They got that late one in the second on their powerplay and it was a hard-fought game the whole way through. I thought we all played really well and we just worked for each other. "Where Ryan scored that goal I'm very proud of, because he went to a hard area to have success. At the end of a shift of strong pressure, captain Connor McDavid came out from behind the St. LOUIS, MO - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins picked the critical moment to score his 200th-career NHL goal, netting the game-winner with 6:16 to go in regulation of a 3-1 Oilers victory over the St. That's what I really enjoyed -- the fact that we stuck with it until they broke down. "Tonight, we all gave each other a chance out there and I thought both teams just played really hard.