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Former Oiler Ryan Strome had a three-point night and Alexandar Georgiev made 32 saves to help sink the Oilers to on this five-game road trip and on the season. Photo Gallery. Full Highlights. Look Back at the In-Game Blog. Inside The Oilers Blog. The Oilers got on the board in the second period with a slick neutral-zone entry and pass from Benson, who floated a beautiful back-hand feed onto the tape of a streaking McLeod at the back post to lift his fourth goal of the season and first in 12 games over the pad of Georgiev with six minutes remaining in the middle frame.

After Leon Draisaitl took advantage of a wayward Rangers pass in their defensive zone, the German dished it to McDavid before the Oilers captain was denied with a statement glove save in the dying moments of an Oilers powerplay just inside the final 10 minutes of the third period.

Chris Kreider got his twig to Adam Fox's point shot on New York's third powerplay of the night into the final frame, quelling an Oilers uprising that began to threaten the Rangers in the minutes prior McLeod's fourth marker of the season. McLeod was active all night in between Benson and Kyle Turris on the third line, with all three recording points in the loss. The centre's second-period tally continues a positive stretch for the Mississauga, Ont. Other teams are getting bounces against us and getting some goals off feet, so we've just got to keep clawing, grinding, and hopefully, we can turn it around.

I think we know how good we can be, and I think we're pretty close to getting to that again. I think we just have to keep going the same way and crank it up a bit harder, work on our details a bit more, and we should be good to go.

The first two periods and even the third, I was just hoping we could get one more to get us back into the game there. On the remaining 5-on-4, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid traded cross-ice passes before the former sifted the puck into the slot for Puljujarvi, who filled the yawning cage with ease. Longing for the first goal of the game after conceding it in each of the last six outings, Skinner provided his team with the net-protecting they would need to light the lamp before Columbus.

Within the opening minute of puck drop, Blue Jackets forward Alexandre Texier attacked the offensive zone, sifted to the middle of the ice then dished the puck over to the trailing Zach Werenski, who got a clean look from prime real estate only to be denied by the left pad of Skinner. Video: Puljujarvi scores twice in big win over CBJ.

Before the Blue Jackets could muster any semblance of a comeback, Derek Ryan extended Edmonton's lead to make things more difficult for the visiting club.

The Oilers centre notched his second strike of the year at of the first period while playing at even strength after muscling home a rebound off Perlini's wrist shot from the high slot. All three Oilers had stellar efforts on Thursday but the Bison King deserves Top Performer honours with his three-point body of work to help end the team's six-game skid.

Not only did the Finn gain his fourth career multi-goal performance but he also threw eight shots on goal while seeing of ice time on the power play and overall. I'm just stealing some of our talk in the back room there: specialty teams, secondary scoring and timely goaltending. I thought Derek Ryan, if you look at his stat line, 64 percent on draws, 13 or so minutes of ice time and a gritty goal going to the net. We talked about that, getting into the blue paint and tough areas.

He didn't get in there early but he put a lot of pucks to the net. Seven or eight shots and I thought that line was good. You could see, we used them right until the end and they did a good job.

You guys are going to see the eight shots, two goals and assist tonight and the 5-on-3 but I thought early, there was a couple of things in his game that we wanted him to be direct.

He just straightened himself right out and had a big game. I thought he got better and better as the game went on. You start feeling good about yourself. That's something we're going to have to talk about, too. It's obviously important for us to score that first goal, it's important for any team. But maybe we can concentrate on the second goal a little bit, too, even if we don't get the first one. Let's just make sure we get the second. You'd want to have a stronger mindset than we need the first one to win.

For me, I noticed down there I had the same thing, seven or eight shots on goal.