Wild win in rout to snap Oilers' five-game winning streak

EDMONTON — After allowing six goals in consecutive losses themselves, the Minnesota Wild flipped the script on Sunday.

Kevin Fiala scored two goals and added an assist as the Wild scored early and often in a 7-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers.

“Sometimes it doesn’t go in and tonight it kind of went in,” Fiala said. “We started well. We know (losing) two in a row is not good enough for us. We are not always going to win, but we don’t want to lose two in a row, and tonight was a great response for us.”

Brandon Duhaime, Joel Eriksson Ek, Connor Dewar, Matt Boldy and Mats Zuccarello also scored for the Wild (31-13-3) who snapped a two-game losing skid.

“I think we played our game more tonight, right from the beginning, just getting pucks in and playing hard and not letting them break out,” Boldy said. “It’s definitely more our style of how we want to play.

“That’s obviously a big key to our game, getting a good start, getting pressure on them and getting on them from the beginning.”

Evander Kane, Tyler Benson and Zach Hyman responded for the Oilers (28-19-3), who had a five-game winning streak snapped, suffering their first loss under new head coach Jay Woodcroft.

“Obviously we didn’t have much jump today. We got off to a really bad start. This league is too hard to come back from a 4-0 deficit,” said Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl.

“We have been playing a lot of games, no question. But every team goes through this and we don’t want to use it as an excuse. We obviously had no jump today and our execution wasn’t where it needs to be.”

Edmonton once again found itself chasing the game early as the Wild scored 2:49 into the opening period on their second shot, as a sloppy clearing attempt led to Duhaime beating Oilers goalie