EDMONTON -- Boy, the Carolina Hurricanes really didn't want to go back to Edmonton. But the Edmonton Oilers are looking forward to their third trip in the past two weeks to Raleigh, N.C.

The Oilers put a one-sided, 4-0, defeat on the Hurricanes Saturday at Rexall Place. The Oilers, who had a seven-game winning streak earlier in the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the San Jose Sharks and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, will seek their third-straight victory and their first Stanley Cup since 1990 Monday at the RBC Center in Raleigh.

Facing elimination in Game 5 at that same RBC Center, the Oilers scratched out a survivalist 4-3 overtime victory on Fernando Pisani's goal off a turnover. The Oilers physical play began to take a toll in Game 5 and they stepped up the pounding in Game 6.

Hurricanes coach Peter Laviolette pulled a surprise when he inserted left wing Erik Cole, apparently healed from a broken bone in his neck suffered March 4, and the Oilers tested him early and often. Oilers alternate captain Ethan Moreau delivered a big hit that knocked Cole to the ice along his defensive right boards at 2:20 of the first period, Later, after Cole had checked Jaroslav Spacek hard for the second time, Jarret Stoll dumped Cole into the Oilers crease, knocking him off the puck. Hurricanes defenseman Bret Hedican picked up his first penalty of the period when he retaliated against Stoll for the Cole hit. Raffi Torres had big hits on Mark Recchi, Josef Vasicek, Justin Williams and Matt Cullen.

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"Since we got down, we felt like we could gain the momentum by being physical and I think that showed tonight," defenseman Steve Staios said. "We played well tonight but we think we can still elevate our game to another level."

The Oilers had a 10-3 edge in shots that extended to 21-3 late in the second period. The Oilers picked up a pair of goals in the second period and another in the third period and the rout was on.

"We feel like we're starting to catch our legs," Horcoff said. "At the same time, we're going back to their barn. Game 5 gave us some confidence. We know we can win there. We have to go back and play a similar game. Just put everything on the line."

Carolina was so thoroughly outplayed that Laviolette called time out late in the third period to scold his team.

The Oilers outshot the Hurricanes, 10-3, in the first period but couldn't score. The Oilers were shorthanded for the final 35 seconds of the first period when Fernando Pisani was sent off for hooking. But Carolina picked up a too-many-men penalty at 1:08 and Pisani redeemed himself with a power-play score at 1:45. Defenseman Jaroslav Spacek took a shot that was blocked, got his own rebound and backhanded a pass to Ales Hemsky at the left point. Hemsky fed Pisani in the slot and Pisani's shot hit Hurricanes defenseman Glen Wesley and deflected off the left goalpost into the net at 18:15 of the second period. It was Pisani's Stanley Cup Playoff-leading 13th goal and raised the weak Edmonton power play to three for 33. Pisani has an otherworldly 27.3 shooting percentage.

The Oilers scored again at 9:54 when center Mike Peca carrried the puck behind the Carolina net and dumped it to Pisani. He passed out to Steve Staios at the right point. Staios' shot was tipped by Torres to make it 2-0.

Peca made it happen again at 3:04 of the third period on Edmonton's third goal, their second power-play score of the game, when he carried the puck into the Carolina zone, backhanded a pass to Smyth and continued on strong between Carolina defenders Glen Wesley and Aaron Ward. Both defenseman were pulled to Cam Ward's right as Smyth cut over the middle and backhanded a shot past Cam Ward.

"We're just trying to generate speed, getting through the neutral zone," Peca said. "I got the puck outside to Ryan and we've got the speed. He's going to make the right play. It's to me if I'm open. What a terrific goal that was for us."

The line of Peca, Pisani and Torres has been the dominant one in Games 5 and 6.

"We try to. We realize that we wanted to be part of the mix, part of the success," Peca said. "We felt that we have up to this point but we're not done yet. We want to make sure that our teammates know that they can count on us every time that we're out there. ... As a unit, we're doing a lot of the little things that enable us to be successful."

The Oilers, who were held to two power-play goals in their first 32 opportunities in the Final, got their third power-play score at 13:05 when Shawn Horcoff and Radek Dvorak worked a give-and-go and Horcoff roofed a bouncing puck over Cam Ward.

"It came at me rolling a little bit, I knew he was going to go down and I just tried to get upstairs as best as possible," Horcoff said.

"We feel better about the power play," Staios said. "We knew that we were getting chances and we were getting pucks to the net and that, eventually, they were going to go in the net. We've been more and more resilient, offensively, as the series has gone on around the net and we're going to continue to do that."

Jussi Markkanen has been solid in net and turned in his first career playoff shutout Saturday.

The Oilers believe they've put the goaltending issue behind them. Jussi Markkanen has played better with every game and he made 16 saves in the shutout.

"We had confidence in Jussi right from the start," Horcoff said. "Every game, he gets better and it seems that his confidence grows. With his confidence, our grows as well. He seems really calm out there and that creates confidence on the bench."

The Oilers head to Carolina Monday feeling good about themselves but not overconfident. It will be a brand-new game in Raleigh, they said.

"I think our confidence was fine to begin with. We've been playing the same, the whole way through. We have the utmost confidence in ourselves," Horcoff said.

"You put yourself in position all year to win the Stanley Cup," Staios said. "And, that's what we have now. We played a good game. We feel that, as a team, we have a good basis in place now and we're going to have to have our most complete effort in Game 7 to win the Stanley Cup."

"We're proud of the accomplishment that we've done to get ourselves back in the series," Peca said. "It would have been easier to be satisfied. The irony is that earlier in the Playoffs we tried to play on teams, psychologically, to get them to buy into the idea of acceptance of the year that they already had. It would have been easy for us to say, we're eighth place, we got this far, we win, we win, if we don't, we gave it a good try. That isn't what we thought about on this team. We said we want to win this and nothing else. We stayed patient which is a big thing. We've been able to stay patient all through the Playoffs and win big games on the road. The two home games we had got us back to the kind of defensive play we want. In Game 5, we got back to the offensive game we wanted to play and we carried that over today. Our penalty killing was better, which is why we were able to keep them off the board. On 5-on-5, we're continuing to dominate the game."

No one in the Oilers' dressing room was willing to make a prediction about Game 7, let alone a boast.

"Tough to say, they've been a resilient group," Peca said. "We're not thinking about momentum or the favorites. We're focused on playing the same way. If we can just shorten up our thought process to going out and doing the same things, I think we know we have an opportunity to be successful. Keep playing 5-on-5 the same and limit their power-play opportunities and do the job when they get opportunities."