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EDMONTON Josh Bailey Jersey , Alberta (AP) — The Vancouver Canucks have climbed back to .500, yet head coach Travis Green isn’t satisfied yet.Elias Pettersson and Antoine Roussel each had a goal and an assist as the Canucks defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 on Thursday night.The Canucks scored four goals on their first six shots. Tyler Motte and Brock Boeser also scored for Vancouver, which is 7-2-1 in its last 10 games.“From Day 1, we’ve talked about how we want to play,” Green said. “We want to be faster and harder to play against, and we wanted to play meaningful games down the stretch.“We’re not getting ahead of ourselves — we’re at .500 right now and we have a long way to go.”Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers, who have lost four straight.“It seemed like every mistake that we made in the first period, they made it count,” Oilers forward Milan Lucic said.“It was a tough one to come back to after the Christmas break. We have dug ourselves a little bit of a hole the last four games and we can’t afford to keep digging it. We have to find a way out, and it isn’t going to take just one or two guys, it is going to take everyone.”Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen gave up all four goals and made just two saves before being replaced by Cam Talbot, who stopped all 14 shots he faced.Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves in the win for the Canucks.“This is how it should feel,” Markstrom said. “Winning shouldn’t be something you celebrate. It should be normal. …Winning should be normal, and in this organization we had that for a long time. That’s what we’re working to get back.”Vancouver started the scoring with a goal on their first shot four minutes into the opening period. Motte took a feed in the slot and beat Koskinen for his sixth goal of the season.The Canucks scored on their second shot Brady Skjei Jersey , too, when, just a few minutes later Pettersson passed in front to Boeser, who scored his 13th goal.Edmonton got one of those goals back midway through the first period, when Connor McDavid found Nugent-Hopkins in front for a power-play goal. It was the first time in 10 games that Vancouver had allowed a power-play goal.Vancouver made it 3-1 with just over a minute left in the first, scoring on its fifth shot, when Pettersson tucked the puck under Koskinen’s arm for his 18th goal of the season.The Canucks got their fourth goal on their sixth shot at 19:49 off a giveaway in front, which Roussel put away for his fourth goal.It was the first time in nine years that Vancouver scored four goals in the first period of a road game.Talbot started the second period in the Edmonton net.Edmonton clawed back with a second power-play goal seven minutes into the second period on a wrist shot by Draisaitl.NOTES: The Oilers outshot the Canucks 32-20 in the game. … It was the second of four meetings between the teams this season, with the Canucks defeating Edmonton 4-2 on Dec. 16. The next meeting will be Jan. 16 in Vancouver. … Oilers forward Alex Chiasson left the game after taking a shot off of the knee in the first period and did not return.UP NEXTCanucks: At Calgary on Saturday.Oilers: Host the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — James van Riemsdyk recorded a hat trick, and Nolan Patrick had two goals and two assists to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 7-4 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Monday night.Wayne Simmonds also had two goals for the Flyers. Carter Hart had 34 saves.It was just the second win in the last 11 games for Philadelphia, which began Monday with the fewest points in the league.Jason Zucker, Marcus Foligno, Joel Eriksson Ek and Ryan Suter scored for Minnesota.The Wild dropped to 0-5-1 against Metropolitan Division teams.AVALANCHE 6, MAPLE LEAFS 3TORONTO (AP) — Carl Soderberg had his first career hat trick and Colorado topped Toronto.Gabriel Landeskog http://www.officialblackhawksproshop.com/authentic-adidas-artem-anisimov-jersey , Mikko Rantanen and Matt Calvert also scored for Colorado, which had lost nine of its last 10 games overall (1-7-2), and seven straight in regulation on the road. Semyon Varlamov stopped 17 shots.Igor Ozhiganov, Kasperi Kapanen and Mitch Marner scored for Toronto. Frederik Andersen made 32 saves in his return to the starting lineup after missing eight games with a groin injury. Auston Matthews added two assists.Toronto has lost five of its last seven games and four of five at home.CANADIENS 3, BRUINS 2, OTBOSTON (AP) — Jeff Petry scored 15 seconds into overtime, batting the puck out of the air and past Tuukka Rask to lead Montreal to a win over Boston.Carey Price stopped 41 shots for the Canadiens. Paul Byron scored a short-handed goal, and Brendan Gallagher also scored to help Montreal earn its third victory in four tries.Rask made 19 saves but lost for the first time in his last six starts. David Krejci scored a power-play goal — with Rask pulled for a 6-on-4 — with just 38 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime.Brad Marchand also scored for Boston, giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead about six minutes into the game.DEVILS 8, BLACKHAWKS 5NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Kyle Palmieri and Blake Coleman each scored twice, and New Jersey had its biggest offensive game of the season in beating Chicago.Travis Zajac, Sami Vatanen, Kevin Rooney and Brett Seney also scored as the Devils won consecutive games for only the third time since opening the season with four straight wins. Rookie goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood won for the fifth time in seven decisions.Patrick Kane scored twice and set up two others for the Blackhawks. Brent Seabrook Brandon Saad Jersey , Dominik Kahun and Brandon Saad also scored for Chicago, which left goaltenders Cam Ward and Collin Delia defenseless most of the game in giving up at least seven goals for the fifth time this season. The eight goals against tied the most given up by the Blackhawks this season.BLUES 4, CAPITALS 1WASHINGTON (AP) — Vince Dunn scored his first goal since October, David Perron extended his point streak and St. Louis scored three goals in a five-minute span to beat Washington for its first three-game winning streak of the season.Dunn banked the puck in on a double deflection for his first goal in 33 games and assisted on Perron’s goal with a no-look backhanded pass. Ivan Barbashev and Vladimir Tarasenko also scored.Perron, who rejoined St. Louis as a free agent in the offseason, has five goals and nine assists during his career-best 11-game point streak.Jake Allen made 28 saves.Alex Ovechkin scored his league-leading 33rd goal of the season for Washington, which dropped its second in a row. Ovechkin took over sole possession of sixth in NHL history with his 238th career power-play goal and tied Dave Andreychuk at 14th on the all-time list with the 640th goal of his career.Capitals backup Pheonix Copley allowed four goals on 37 shots.OILERS 7, SABRES 2EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Milan Lucic and Zack Kassian each scored a pair of goals as Edmonton routed Buffalo.Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl also scored for the Oilers, who have won two of their last three.Casey Mittelstadt and Evan Rodrigues scored for the struggling Sabres, who have lost three straight.