Frederick Gaudreau had two objectives and an help because the Minnesota Wild continued to choose up factors at will, rising with a 5-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.
Matt Boldy, Marcus Foligno and Marcus Johansson additionally scored for the Wild (13-3-3), who’ve gone 5-1-1 of their final seven video games.
Leon Draisaitl, Corey Perry and Jeff Skinner replied for the Oilers (10-9-2), who’ve misplaced three of their final 4 because the damage bug has taken a toll of late.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves between the pipes for the Wild, whereas Stuart Skinner made 21 stops in web for the Oilers.
Wild: Kirill Kaprizov’s first-period help prolonged his factors streak to seven video games (six objectives and 7 assists). The Russian ahead is at the moment on tempo to succeed in 150 factors this season after changing into the Wild’s first participant in to succeed in triple-digits in factors with 108 in 2021-2022. Kaprizov got here into the competition having recorded some extent on a powerful 33 of Minnesota’s 61 objectives, a league-high 54.1 per cent participation price.
Oilers: With accidents to Viktor Arvidsson and Zach Hyman, ahead Kasperi Kapanen made his debut on Edmonton’s second line, simply a few days after being claimed off waivers from the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday. The Finnish ahead and former 2014 first-round choose had a aim in 10 video games for the Blues and has notched 209 factors in 470 profession NHL video games with Toronto, Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
It was an odd begin and positively not the best way that Marc-Andre Fleury wished to see his 1,000th profession begin in web start as Draisaitl received the best aim of his profession. A protracted slowly rolling puck got here from properly exterior the zone on the web and Fleury, who additionally moved into third in all-time goalie video games performed within the contest, went to swat it up the ice, solely to have it take a hop and bounce by way of his legs to present Edmonton a 1-0 lead on their first shot simply 27 seconds into the sport. Draisaitl was credited together with his fifteenth aim of the season and the third aim of his profession scored within the first 30 seconds of a sport.
The Wild have given the Oilers matches for a very long time. The Wild’s 63 wins, 136 factors and 30 highway wins all time in opposition to Edmonton are most in opposition to any crew. Because the begin of the 2010-11 season, Minnesota is 19-5-0 in its final 24 video games in Edmonton.
Wild: End off a three-game highway journey in Calgary in opposition to the Flames on Saturday.
Oilers: Wrap up a quick two-game homestand versus the New York Rangers on Saturday.
