Shawn Horcoff

Jordan Eberle had two goals and an assist and Shawn Horcoff scored twice to send the Edmonton Oilers to a 6-2 victory over the Nashville Predators 6-2 Tuesday night. Ales Hemsky and Jeff Petry also scored, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Taylor Hall and Ryan Smyth each added a pair of assists and Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves for Edmonton. Jordin Tootoo and Jonathon Blum scored for the Predators. Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne gave up three goals on 13 shots in the first period and was replaced by Anders Lindback to start the second period.

Ray Whitney scored in the third period and added the shootout winner as the Phoenix Coyotes bounced back from a two-goal deficit to defeat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Sunday night. Raffi Torres also scored for the Coyotes, who passed Los Angeles and San Jose to take over the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Phoenix coach Dave Tippett also earned his 400th career victory with the win. Jordan Eberle and Ales Hemsky scored for the Oilers, who had a two-game winning streak snapped.

Nikolai Khabibulin made 35 saves and Jordan Eberle and Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist each to help the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. Shawn Horcoff also scored for the Oilers (4-2-2) who won their second straight. Cody Hodgson and Alexandre Burrows responded for the Canucks (4-4-1). Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo was pulled in the second period after allowing three goals on 14 shots. He was replaced by Cory Schneider who stopped all eight shots he faced.

Devan Dubnyk made 35 saves for his first shutout of the season and the Edmonton Oilers won their second game in a row, topping the Philadelphia Flyers 2-0 on Thursday. Jordan Eberle had a goal and an assist and Taylor Hall also scored for the Oilers (24-30-6), who have the second-worst record in the NHL. Edmonton broke the deadlock on a power play at 3:26 of the second. Hall was able to find an inch to squeeze the puck between the post and Ilya Bryzgalov's skate for his 22nd of the season and a 1-0 Oilers lead.

Shawn Horcoff's shootout goal beat goalie Roberto Luongo and lifted the Oilers out of the Western Conference basement with a 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks last night in Edmonton. Horcoff, Tom Gilbert, Marty Reasoner, and Dustin Penner scored in regulation as Edmonton snapped a two-game losing streak. Alexandre Burrows, Brad Isbister, Alexander Edler, and Markus Naslund had goals for Vancouver. The win kicked off a crucial six-game homestand for Edmonton (8-12-1)

Colton Orr and Ryan Hollweg snapped career-high scoring droughts as the Rangers used some unexpected offense to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 5-0, last night at New York, breaking a four-game losing streak. Orr hadn't scored in 65 games, Hollweg in 84. Hollweg hadn't even had a point in his last 53 games. Sean Avery, in his first home game since being acquired from Los Angeles, netted his first goal with New York, and Marcel Hossa and Jaromir Jagr also scored as the Rangers earned a much-needed victory.

Daniel and Henrik Sedin each had a goal and an assist and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Sunday to run their winning streak to four and points string to 13. Sami Salo, Kevin Bieksa and Chris Higgins also scored, and Cory Schneider made 26 saves for Vancouver. The Canucks are 10-0-3 during their points streak to improve to 38-15-6. They are two points behind Detroit for the NHL lead. Shawn Horcoff and Magnus Paajarvi scored for Edmonton. The Oilers have lost three in row and five of their last six to drop to 22-30-6.

Ryan Smyth scored the winning goal and added an assist as the Edmonton Oilers rallied with three goals in the third period to beat the Nashville Predators 3-1 on Monday night. Taylor Hall and Ryan Jones also scored and captain Shawn Horcoff had three assists for the Oilers, who are 2-1-1 after finishing last in the NHL for two straight seasons. Sergei Kostitsyn had the lone goal for the Predators (2-2-1), who have lost three in a row following two wins to open the season. Nashville recorded only 12 shots, and yielded 25 to Edmonton.

Mike Ribeiro celebrated his new contract with two assists and a long-awaited victory. Antti Miettinen scored two goals to help the Stars end a four-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild in Dallas last night. Rookie Matt Niskanen also scored for the Stars, who hadn't lost four in a row since a five-game skid in 2003. The night wasn't a complete success for Ribeiro, who signed a new five-year, $25 million contract before the game. He failed to convert a penalty shot at 11:44 of the first period.

Dustin Penner, Ryan Jones, and Shawn Horcoff scored in a 5:47 span early in the second period to help the Oilers beat the Florida Panthers, 3-2, last night in Edmonton, Alberta. Nikolai Khabibulin made 26 saves for Edmonton, three nights after stopping 37 shots in a 4-0 home victory over Calgary in the Oilers’ first game under coach Tom Renney. Former Boston College star Marty Reasoner scored twice in the second period for the Panthers in their season opener. Penner opened the scoring at 1:33 of the second, tipping Tom Gilbert’s hard shot from the point past goalie...

Daniel and Henrik Sedin each had a goal and an assist and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Sunday to run their winning streak to four and points string to 13. Sami Salo, Kevin Bieksa and Chris Higgins also scored, and Cory Schneider made 26 saves for Vancouver. The Canucks are 10-0-3 during their points streak to improve to 38-15-6. They are two points behind Detroit for the NHL lead. Shawn Horcoff and Magnus Paajarvi scored for Edmonton. The Oilers have lost three in row and five of their last six to drop to 22-30-6.

Taylor Hall scored the winning goal in a shootout and the Edmonton Oilers snapped a three-game skid with a 2-1 victory over the Pacific Division-leading San Jose Sharks on Monday night. Edmonton's Devan Dubnyk was the first star of the game, stopping 44 shots through overtime and three more in the shootout. Jordan Eberle scored in regulation for the Oilers (18-26-4), who won for the second time in 10 games and sixth in 26 outings. Logan Couture had the lone goal for the Sharks (26-14-6)

Dany Heatley scored his third goal in four games to help the Minnesota Wild snap an eight-game winless streak and beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Thursday night in a ferocious game from start to finish. Mikko Koivu, Jarod Palmer and Pierre-Marc Bouchard also scored for the Wild, who went 0-5-3 after a seven-game winning streak. Niklas Backstrom improved to 16-0-0 at Xcel Energy Center in his career against the Oilers, the best record of any NHL goalie at home against a single opponent.

Niklas Backstrom and the Minnesota Wild were fed up. With the way the Edmonton Oilers were playing against them. With two losses in a row to their soon-to-be-former division rival. With an eight-game losing streak that sent them tumbling out of first place in the NHL. Dany Heatley scored his third goal in four games to help the Wild snap out of their skid and beat the Oilers, 4-3, last night at St. Paul in a snippy game from start to finish. "At some point, enough is enough," Backstrom said.

Ryan Smyth had a pair of goals as the Edmonton Oilers won their fifth in a row, 4-2 over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday night. Shawn Horcoff and Jordan Eberle also scored for the Oilers, who improved to 6-1-1 at home and moved back into first place in the Western Conference with the win. Davis Backes and Chris Stewart responded for the Blues, who have lost two in a row on the heels of a three-game winning streak. The Oilers (7-2-2) struck first 5:30 in as Ryan Nugent-Hopkins made a perfect pass to a streaking Horcoff, who shoveled a power-play goal past Blues starter...

Shane Doan and Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored in the third period, and the Phoenix Coyotes ended a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. Phoenix played the night before and Edmonton had five days off, but it was the Coyotes who had the extra jump, outshooting the Oilers 42-20. Lauri Korpikoski scored in the first period, Radim Vrbata in the second, then Doan and Ekman-Larsson put it away with goals 3 minutes apart in the third.

EDMONTON, Alberta -- The flu is giving the Edmonton Oilers a lot more trouble than the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the Western Conference finals. So far, the bug has run through the Edmonton dressing room and even forced lineup changes. The Mighty Ducks have not put up much resistance and are just one loss from elimination. The Oilers want to finish off Anaheim quick to rest, recuperate, and get ready for their first appearance in the Stanley Cup finals since 1990. Edmonton took a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series with a 5-4 home victory Tuesday night.

EDMONTON, Alberta -- Dwayne Roloson and the Edmonton Oilers protected the Canadian national anthem from another round of booing. They knocked out San Jose before the Sharks could get the series back home. Michael Peca and Shawn Horcoff scored in front of a sellout crowd of pompom-waving fans last night, and Roloson made 24 saves in the biggest game of his career as the eighth-seeded Oilers beat the Sharks, 2-0, in Game 6 of the quarterfinal series. That put the Oilers in the Western Conference finals for the first time in 14 years.

Kyle Brodziak scored in regulation and added the winner in the sixth round of the shootout as the Minnesota Wild beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Wednesday night to move into first place in the NHL standings. Devin Setoguchi also scored in regulation for the Wild (15-7-3), who jumped past Eastern Conference-leading Pittsburgh with their seventh win in nine games. Niklas Backstrom made 28 saves for the win. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Jordan Eberle had goals for the Oilers (12-10-3)

Jordan Eberle had two goals and an assist and Shawn Horcoff scored twice to send the Edmonton Oilers to a 6-2 victory over the Nashville Predators 6-2 Tuesday night. Ales Hemsky and Jeff Petry also scored, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Taylor Hall and Ryan Smyth each added a pair of assists and Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves for Edmonton. Jordin Tootoo and Jonathon Blum scored for the Predators. Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne gave up three goals on 13 shots in the first period and was replaced by Anders Lindback to start the second period.