EDMONTON, Alberta – Michael Ryder had a goal and an assist to send the surging Boston Bruins to yet another win on the road, 3-2 over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday.
Nathan Horton and Rich Peverley also scored for the Northeast Division-leading Bruins, who have won the first five games of their six-game road trip.
Ales Hemsky and Gilbert Brule had goals for the Oilers, who have lost two in a row and three of four. Brule was back in the lineup after sitting out 27 of the past 30 games with an illness.
It was the first NHL game between Edmonton left wing Taylor Hall and Boston center Tyler Seguin, picked first and second, respectively, in the 2010 draft. Hall entered with 40 points, while Seguin had 21 in six fewer games.
The Oilers, often victims of early goals against this season, started the game off quickly for a change as Hemsky collected a rebound and slid it under Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask just 1:05 in.
Boston, which hasn’t lost to Edmonton in nine meetings since October 2000, came back to tie it with 4½ minutes left in the opening period. Ryder scooped up a rebound and waited for Oilers goalie Devan Dubnyk to go down before sending a shot into the top of the net for his 17th goal of the season.
The Bruins went ahead with 1:21 left in the first as David Krejci faked a shot before sending it over to Horton, who had an empty net to shoot into.
The Bruins continued to dominate play in the second period but weren’t rewarded until the final minute when Ryder fed Peverley, who deked Dubnyk to score his first goal with the Bruins since coming over in a trade with Atlanta.
The Oilers got back into the game just more than 3 minutes into the third, as Brule rifled a shot from the far edge of the faceoff circle past a screened Rask.
• Milan Lucic scored the go-ahead goal on a rebound with 4:38 left, and Patrice Bergeron scored into an empty net to clinch Boston’s 3-1 win at Vancouver late Saturday night. Nathan Horton also scored and Tim Thomas made 26 saves for the Bruins.
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