The Wild won all three meetings last season with the Oilers, including both in Edmonton\u00a0with 7-3 and 1-0 victories that were spearheaded by Jesper Wallstedt between the pipes, whose six wins this season are tied for the most in the NHL.<\/p>\n
The Oilers own a 39-56-14 record (.358 win percentage) all-time against the Wild and have struggled in recent seasons, losing 14 of their last 18 meetings with a -23 goal differential (75 GA, 52 GF). Minnesota’s 32 road wins in Edmonton represent its highest total against any team.<\/p>\n
With Filip Gustavsson on LTIR as he recovers from offseason hip surgery, former Oilers netminder Calvin Pickard has been backing up for the Wild and will return to Oil Country for the first time since signing with Minnesota this past summer.<\/p>\n
Connor\u00a0McDavid looks to carry on his torrid start to the season by extending his five-point lead in the NHL’s early scoring race, registering 23 points (6G, 17A) through eight games. McDavid is off to the best eight-game start of his career, which would still be a career-high if it were nine games after recording 17 both in 2021-22 and 2019-20.<\/p>\n
Defenceman Evan Bouchard sits on 16 points (6G, 10A), good for a tie for third\u00a0place in the League, while Draisaitl sits in a four-way tie for sixth with 14 points (6G, 8A)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wild won all three meetings last season with the Oilers, including both in Edmonton\u00a0with 7-3 and 1-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":["post-691312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton-oilers","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-edmontonoilers","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-oilers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117472717927041956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}