In Edmonton Friday night, six different skaters scored for the Oilers in a convincing 6-3 win over the New Jersey Devils.
Drake Caggiula, Ryan Strome, Oscar Klefbom, Milan Lucic, Leon Draisaitl, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkinsstruck for Oilers goals.
“Tonight was the first night in a while that we had everyone going and all the lines playing well, and playing the right way,” Connor McDavid (three assists) said. “We were rewarded, so it’s good to see.”
The loss snapped a three-game streak for the Devils who got goals from Taylor Hall, Jesper Bratt and Brian Gibbons.
“We just didn’t play consistently enough through the game,” Devils coach John Hynes said. “I thought there were times when we had good opportunities and good pushes. Early in the game they had momentum and then we had momentum. We had some breakdowns in the D-zone and they wound up scoring goals on them.”
The Oilers stormed out to a 2-0 lead before the Devils rallied to tie but they could not get over the hump after that and Edmonton struck for two goals to take a 4-2 lead.
“They made more plays than us tonight,” Hall said. “We had a good effort and our attention to detail was there for the most part, we just have to make more plays. They were finding ways to come through the neutral zone and make plays to get offence, and we had trouble doing that.”
Cam Talbot made 31 saves in the win.
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Cory Schneider made 36 saves in taking the loss.
“It was a strange game. It is not easy for us to get up to five goals, so I have to keep it down,” Schneider said. “I can’t give up five. I don’t think I was as sharp as I was the other night (2-0 win at the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday) leaving a few pucks lying around on rebounds.”
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