Wild defeat Oilers in shootout

Jason Pominville, Chris Stewart and Eric Staal scored in the shootout for the Minnesota Wild in a 3-2 win against the Edmonton Oilers at the Xcel Energy Center on Friday.
Devan Dubnyk stopped four Oilers in the shootout and made 25 saves, improving his career record against Edmonton to 8-1-0.
Leon Draisaitl and Jordan Eberle scored for the Oilers in the shootout, which went six rounds.

WATCH: All Oilers vs. Wild highlights
Defenseman Matt Dumba and forward Jason Zucker scored in regulation for Minnesota (14-8-4). Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored for Edmonton (14-11-5) and Cam Talbot made 34 saves.
"I thought today we played above them most of the night," Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. "When you're starting to chase [Connor] McDavid and Draisaitl and Nugent-Hopkins, they're faster guys, then you get in trouble. If you can play above them, you're able to contain them a little bit."
Draisaitl gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead at 19:04 of first period, shooting a rebound past Dubnyk. Draisaitl played the puck to Benoit Pouliot in the Wild zone, then took a return pass in front of the net. His first shot was stopped by Dubnyk, but Draisaitl converted the rebound.
Dumba scored at 4:26 of the second period, shooting the puck past Talbot from the blue line. Talbot was screened by Pominville standing in front of the net.
"That's a tough team to play against, obviously, we'll take the point, but we want to get the second point as well," Draisaitl said. "It was unfortunate we couldn't."

Zucker scored to put Minnesota up 2-1 at 1:19 of the third period after Oilers forward Connor McDavid attempted a drop pass to defenseman Oscar Klefbom deep in the Oilers zone.
Nugent-Hopkins tied the game 2-2 at 15:21 on the power play with a shot from the point that sailed past Dubnyk. The Wild used a coach's challenge on possible goaltender interference on forward Pat Maroon, but the goal stood.
"I've been getting the chances and finally bearing down putting them in," Nugent-Hopkins said. "It was nice to get that one to tie it up."
Minnesota was awarded a power play at 1:09 of overtime after McDavid was assessed a high-sticking penalty but could not convert. Charlie Coyle came close for the Wild, hitting the post on the power play.
"It was pretty tight a lot of the way, they had a good first, I thought our second was better," Staal said. "In the third we made a good push again. Talbot made some good saves in overtime and [Dubnyk] too. To be able to get the two points is big and you feel better about it coming to the rink [Saturday]."

Goal of the game

Draisaitl and Pouliot exchanged passes in the Wild zone, which lead to Edmonton's first goal.

Save of the game

Dubnyk gloved a shot from McDavid, who cut to the net and tried to flip the puck over the goalie at 7:04 of the first period.

Unsung performance of the game

Wild defenseman Marco Scandella chased down Eberle and broke up a scoring opportunity at 7:53 of the third period after his shot was blocked at the Oilers blue line.

Highlight of the game

Staal made an excellent move to score the winning goal in the shootout, avoiding a poke check from Talbot and casually sliding the puck into the net.

They said it

"If you have a tough night it's kind of nice to be able to play back-to-back. You don't have any time to dwell on it really, you just get right back out there. Tonight I thought was a better effort personally." -- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who had two costly giveaways in a 6-5 loss at the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday.
"I'm proud of our group tonight. It's been tough on us lately, the schedule, the way we've lost some games, and the frustration level goes up. Often when that happens it sucks a lot of energy out of you, but I thought our guys played a real strong game tonight." -- Oilers coach Todd McLellan
"Wins are wins in this league, every game is close, it's tight and it seems it's 2-1, 3-2 [all the time]. If we can feel comfortable in those matches it's only going to help us more moving forward throughout the season." -- Wild center Eric Staal

Need to know

McDavid was held without a point for the second time this week by the Wild. He did not have a point in a 2-1 overtime loss against Minnesota in Edmonton on Sunday. … Draisaitl extended his point streak to three games. He has six goals and three assists in his past six games.

What's next

Oilers: Home against the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday (9:30 p.m. ET; SNOL, SNW (JIP), TSN3, NHL.TV)
Wild: Home against the St. Louis Blues on Sunday (6 p.m. ET; FW-WI, FS-N+, FS-MW, NHL.TV)