Edmonton Oilers fall to Wild for 3rd-straight loss
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Cam Talbot made 38 saves as the Minnesota Wild downed the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 Tuesday night at Rogers Place.
Cam Talbot made 38 saves as the Minnesota Wild downed the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 Tuesday night at Rogers Place.
The Oilers have lost three games in a row while the Wild have won seven straight.
Oilers defenceman Evan Bouchard took a holding penalty 33 seconds into the game and the Wild capitalized when forward Joel Eriksson Ek stuffed a loose puck behind Edmonton goaltender Mikko Koskinen.
“He’s got to know where that puck is — coming from behind the net — but it’s just one of those breaks,” Oilers head coach Dave Tippett said of the game’s opening goal. “That’s a soft goal you’d like to see saved, so you’re chasing the game.
“The next one is a three-on-three rush, so we should defend better and we don’t. So you’re chasing the game from there on in.”
Despite some early pressure by the Oilers, the team fell behind 2-0 at the 7:14 mark when the Wild’s Marcus Foligno scored.
“I thought we had our looks but we probably didn’t win enough battles on the power play,” Oilers captain Connor McDavid said after the game.
“You go through stretches where it doesn’t go in for you. We went through a long stretch where they were going in, and obviously this is one where it isn’t.”