Gaudreau’s three-point effort leads Wild past Oilers 5-3

Frederick Gaudreau had 2 goals and an assistance arsenic the Minnesota Wild continued to prime up points astatine will, emerging with a 5-3 triumph implicit the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.

Matt Boldy, Marcus Foligno and Marcus Johansson besides scored for the Wild (13-3-3), who person gone 5-1-1 successful their past 7 games.

Leon Draisaitl, Corey Perry and Jeff Skinner replied for the Oilers (10-9-2), who person mislaid 3 of their past 4 arsenic the wounded bug has taken a toll of late.

Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves betwixt the pipes for the Wild, portion Stuart Skinner made 21 stops successful nett for the Oilers.

TAKEAWAYS

Wild: Kirill Kaprizov’s archetypal play assistance extended his points streak to 7 games (six goals and 7 assists). The Russian guardant is presently connected gait to scope 150 points this play aft becoming the Wild’s archetypal subordinate successful to scope triple-digits successful points with 108 successful 2021-2022. Kaprizov came into the contention having recorded a constituent connected an awesome 33 of Minnesota’s 61 goals, a league-high 54.1 per cent information rate.

Oilers: With injuries to Viktor Arvidsson and Zach Hyman, guardant Kasperi Kapanen made his debut connected Edmonton’s 2nd line, conscionable a mates of days aft being claimed disconnected waivers from the St. Louis Blues connected Tuesday. The Finnish guardant and erstwhile 2014 first-round prime had a extremity successful 10 games for the Blues and has notched 209 points successful 470 vocation NHL games with Toronto, Pittsburgh and St. Louis.

BIZARRE BEGINNING

It was an unusual commencement and surely not the mode that Marc-Andre Fleury wanted to spot his 1,000th vocation commencement successful nett statesman arsenic Draisaitl got the easiest extremity of his career. A agelong dilatory rolling puck came from good extracurricular the portion connected the nett and Fleury, who besides moved into 3rd successful all-time goalie games played successful the contest, went to swat it up the ice, lone to person it instrumentality a hop and bounce done his legs to springiness Edmonton a 1-0 pb connected their archetypal changeable conscionable 27 seconds into the game. Draisaitl was credited with his 15th extremity of the play and the 3rd extremity of his vocation scored successful the archetypal 30 seconds of a game.

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KEY STAT

The Wild person fixed the Oilers fits for a agelong time. The Wild’s 63 wins, 136 points and 30 roadworthy wins each clip against Edmonton are astir against immoderate team. Since the commencement of the 2010-11 season, Minnesota is 19-5-0 successful its past 24 games successful Edmonton.

UP NEXT

Wild: Finish disconnected a three-game roadworthy travel successful Calgary against the Flames connected Saturday.

Oilers: Wrap up a little two-game homestand versus the New York Rangers connected Saturday.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 21, 2024.