Oilers' game

The Oilers snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Wild with a 5-2 victory at Rogers Place on Friday night.

I think sometimes lessons come hard if you're deaf to them and we want to make sure that when we are taught some lessons in the season, that we're paying attention and we use it as a growth opportunity." "There are different stages in the season and the important thing that we're stressing as a coaching staff is the ability to get better every day. A lot of guys are playing more now than they had in the beginning of the year and they're contributing." He's well respected and he does a lot of little subtle things in the game that he's having success with. The Oilers captain notched his 25th goal of the season 8:59 into the game while on a powerplay to extend his goal-scoring streak to seven games. I think we have a lot of guys up front that are banged up and not playing and we got Yamo back, which is great. We want to make this place a hard place to play and I think all last year we did. The Wild fully erased the Oilers early advantage in the second period courtesy of a 5-on-3 power play. The 25-year-old now has an incredible 25 goals, 29 assists and 54 points in the first 27 games of the season. After a delay, the play was reviewed and it was determined that the puck did cross the line before the refs blew it dead. The chaos all started with a Mats Zuccarello shot that snuck in behind Skinner and sat for what seemed like an eternity in the blue paint behind him. Nugent-Hopkins has gotten off to a torrid start for the Oilers, recording 14 goals, 19 assists, and 33 points in the first 28 games.