PREVIEW: Oilers at Blues

The Edmonton Oilers will close out a back-to-back and their four-game road trip on Friday at Enterprise Center against the St. Louis Blues.

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PREVIEW: Oilers at Blues

ST. LOUIS, MO – Continue the fight.

Following their heavy defeat to the Dallas Stars on Thursday, the Edmonton Oilers can conclude their road trip with three wins out of four if they can earn a result on Friday at Enterprise Center against the St. Louis Blues in the second of back-to-back games.

The Blue & Orange will look to quickly put the Stars' seven-goal outburst against them in the past after they gave up five unanswered goals in the first 30 minutes, with the first coming from captain Jamie Benn only 1:23 into the contest for his first of two goals on the night along with Jason Robertson.

Evan Bouchard tallied his 19th goal to set a new career high, pushing his point streak to nine games, while Jason Dickinson scored his first goal in an Oilers uniform.

One of the other positives from the loss was how Connor responded to Leon Draisaitl taking a stray clearance from Arttu Hyry when the second-period buzzer had sounded, leading to both leaders taking penalties in a show they won't be pushed around.

"He's the last guy that should be doing that, to be honest," Hyman said. "So when things are going like that, I think that there are ways to be engaged, and I think you saw him trying to pull our group back into the fight and Leon as well. We can do a better job as a team to push back, and we did, but it wasn't enough, obviously."

The extra-curriculars continued in the third, where the Stars tagged them for two more goals while the Oilers took 14 more penalty minutes after the whistles.

"When it's like that, you're frustrated, and that's a way to try and get some emotion to the game and stick up for each other," Hyman said. "But we have to be a lot better."

It was a physical response from the Oilers, but the Stars were too powerful in the win that stretched their point streak to 14 games (13-0-1) despite no Rantanen or Hintz.

The Oilers took two out of four wins in a tough four-game stretch against Carolina (at home), Vegas, Colorado and Dallas, and things will remain tough against a St Louis side that has points in six straight (5-0-1) and is 6-1-1 since the Olympic break after beating the Hurricanes 3-1 on Thursday.