Oilers looking sharp in all aspects heading to Detroit

The Edmonton Oilers begin a four-game road trip Sunday at the Detroit Red Wings absolutely brimming with confidence after their most recent performance.Before hitting the road, the Oilers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-0 on Friday in a dominating performance from start to finish, looking very much like the squad that reached the Stanley Cup Final last season.While thumping the Penguins, the Oilers outshot the opposition by a 50-27 margin, scored on the power play and shut the door defensively to preserve Stuart Skinner’s first shutout of the season.”If you do that, you’re going to get results eventually,” defenseman Mattias Ekholm said. “It was just a matter of the puck going in, and at the end of the day, it sure did in a good way. We’ve just got to keep it rolling.”The Oilers have managed only three victories in their first eight games, so the test will be to prove that result was not a one-off. However, the execution of their game plan was near perfect.”Start to finish, we played a really solid game,” Skinner said. “It started with the defensive zone, and then from there, we were able to capitalize on some offense. And that’s normally how it starts for us. When we’re solid in the D zone, we get a lot of chances. … Just an amazing team effort.”On top of the victory, the Oilers had a couple of players hit the scoresheet after surprisingly slow starts to the campaign.”(Viktor) Arvidsson and (Zach) Hyman played a really good game. … They had so many scoring chances and it’s only a matter of time” coach Kris Knoblauch said. “When you have that many chances, it’s got to go in soon.”The Red Wings return home after their three-game winning streak was snapped in a 5-3 road loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday afternoon.

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