The Edmonton Oilers were able to halt more than one kind of losing streak on Sunday.
David Perron scored the game winner midway through the third period as the Oilers avoided a 12th straight defeat, getting past the San Jose Sharks 2-1.
Nail Yakupov also scored for the Oilers (7-15-5), who won at home for the first time in nine contests to dodge tying a team record for consecutive home losses.
Edmonton also captured just its first win against a fellow Western Conference opponent this season — improving to 1-12-4 in that category.
"We can finally put away the thing about not having one against the West," Perron said. "That's a good thing. There is one way to win and we did that tonight."
Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins said changing the conversation on several of their sorry streaks at once was massive.
"Getting rid of that is huge," he said. "Whatever you want to call it, getting the monkey off your back, an elephant, a large gorillaà it feels good for everybody. Most importantly, for our players and our fans. I thought we played a fairly similar game to our last one in Winnipeg. We have points in four of our last five games. I thought we played a real mature, smart game. It was a real solid effort."
Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens said his team caught a bit of a break from the schedule-maker, but also stepped up their own game.
"San Jose was probably a tired group and we got them on the second night of a back-to-back, which was fortunate for us and helped us out," he said. "But at the end of the day, we executed pretty well. That has to be our expectation now, of how we have to play. We made a couple of mistakes, but they weren't as often or as egregious as they have been in the past."
Tye McGinn scored in response for the Sharks (14-11-4), who had a four-game winning streak halted.
Sharks head coach Todd McLellan said his team wasn't about to blame the loss on playing three games in four nights.
"If you go there, it begins to sound like we're using excuses," he said. "Teams play that in the league all the time. They (Oilers) happened to be sitting since Wednesday and they were fresh, they took advantage of it.
"I still think that good teams can find ways — and we almost did."
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