Granlund, Wild defeat Oilers in back-and-forth game

EDMONTON -- Mikael Granlund scored the go-ahead goal with 5:48 remaining, and the Minnesota Wild defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 at Rogers Place on Tuesday.

Minnesota came back from down one goal three times to hand Edmonton its first loss in four games.

Granlund gave the Wild their first lead of the game when he scored their third power-play goal with a wrist shot from the bottom of the right face-off circle.
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"I saw a hole there and I just tried to shoot through it, and luckily it went in," said Granlund, who extended his point streak to nine games with an assist on Eric Staal's power-play goal to tie it 3-3 at 18:20 of the second period. "There was a lot of good things tonight with the power play, and there are some things we can do a better job with, but sometimes those pucks just go in, you get a couple of bounces and they go in. You just have to keep shooting and keep getting those chances."
Nino Niederreiter and Ryan Suter each had two assists, and Alex Stalock made 34 saves for the Wild (7-3-2), who are 6-1-0 since starting the season 1-2-2.

"We have good players, and we have a good team," said Staal, who also had two assists for his second three-point game this season (Oct. 11 against the Chicago Blackhawks). "We feel like we can come back any time, and if we stay with our game and our structure, we have the talent to be able to cash in on opportunities. You don't want to give up the first goal, but it happens and you just have to keep playing. The good thing is that we believe in each other and we believe we can continue to come back and play, and tonight was about gutting it out and it felt like we deserved to win."
Connor McDavid scored to extend his goal streak to five games, and Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist for Edmonton (6-4-1). Cam Talbot made 24 saves.

"We were the better team 5-on-5, but special teams cost us," McDavid said. "Our power play didn't do anything (0-for-5), and they went 3-for-3 on their power play. That's not good."
Draisaitl scored at 8:11 of the first period to give the Oilers a 1-0 lead, but Zach Parise tied it 1-1 on the power play at 14:08 when he collected a rebound in front of Talbot and slid it into the net.
McDavid put Edmonton ahead 2-1 at 4:10 of the second period. He knocked the puck down at center, skated down the right wing past Suter, cut to the net, and lifted a shot over Stalock.
"He is fast, and there are not many players with that speed," Stalock said. "He knows how to use it, and once he gets to the net, he has unbelievable hands, and he showed that tonight."
Jared Spurgeon tied it 2-2 at 12:18 off a pass in front from Staal.

Alex Chiasson scored at 13:11 to put the Oilers ahead 3-2, tipping in Matt Benning's point shot.
"You give up three on the penalty kill and get none on the power play, and you're not winning," Edmonton coach Todd McLellan said. "We could play that game 100 times and do the same thing over and over again, and not win it."

They said it

"I think if we were in another city, whether it was a Canadian city or a high-profile city, that everyone would know how good this guy is. He is our catalyst, and that's why he plays the most and why he's usually our leading scorer. When you need something done, he's the guy that you want to have the puck." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau on forward Mikael Granlund
"We just didn't have the finish on the power play. I think we had our chances for two or three goals. We just couldn't set up that final punch. That is something we feel we have to do better." -- Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl

Need to know

Granlund has six goals and six assists during his point streak, which is tied for the second-longest in the NHL with Brent Burns and Timo Meier of the San Jose Sharks behind Sebastian Aho of the Carolina Hurricanes (12). ... Granlund is three games shy of matching his Wild-record 12-game point streak (Jan. 12-Feb. 4, 2017). He had five goals and 12 assists in that span. ... Staal is one goal from 400 in the NHL. ... McDavid has at least one point in 10 of his first 11 games (nine goals, nine assists). ... Draisaitl has seven points (five goals, two assists) in the past five games.

What's next

Wild: At the St. Louis Blues on Saturday (8 p.m. ET; FS-MW, FS-N, NHL.TV)
Oilers: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday (9 p.m. ET; SNW, NBCSCH, NHL.TV)