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The Edmonton Oilers take on the Minnesota Wild for the first time this season and first time in 420 days overall. We'll be updating the action from the game as it happens. We'll also be adding photos, videos from big plays and more throughout the game.

Line Combinations (and defence pairings) for the Oilers:

Hall - Nugent-Hopkins - Eberle
Hartikainen - Gagner - Hemsky
Smyth - Belanger - Yakupov
Eager - VandeVelde - Paajarvi

N.Schultz - J.Schultz
Smid - Fistric
Peckham - Petry

Dubnyk

             
20:00: The puck has dropped to start the opening period.  

13:28: Through the first six minutes, the only two shots on goal were by Minnesota.

11:50: Theo Peckham, from the point, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, from the slot, have Edmonton's two best scoring chances of the game.

5:00: Oilers pick up momentum in the game, shots on goal are now 5-2 for Edmonton. 

So...not much going on here. RNH has misfired on a couple of point blank chances. That's about it.                                                            @dantencer

1:04: Dany Heatley one-times a shot from the top of the crease and it rings off the post behind Dubnyk and out of harm's way in what was Minnesota's best chance of the period.

0:00: Shots on goal after one are 8-3 in favour of the Oilers.
           
Minnesota had only one shot on goal in the final 14 minutes of the period.
           
20:00: The second period is now underway.

13:59: Hemsky and Yakupov skated in on a two-on-one. Yakupov threaded the puck over to Hemsky who didn't get as much on the puck as he wanted. Backstrom was able to slide across and make the stop.

13:38: Cal Clutterbuck blocks a shot and limps to the bench for treatment afterwards.

13:15: Ladislav Smid gets physical with Dany Heatley and receives two minutes as a result. Minnesota goes on the first power play of the game.

11:58: Heatley gets a goaltender interference penalty with Minnesota buzzing around the net on their man advantage.

7:34: Ryan Smyth picks up the puck behind the net and wraps it around and in for his second goal of the season, putting the Oilers on the board. | EDM 1, MIN 0  

Was that Ryan Smyth wrapping a goal? Or, like Star Wars, a hologram of 1997 Smytty doing same?                                                                                                               @SportsnetSpec

Kudos to all the fans in the Gallery who sang Happy Birthday after Smyth's goal. #94 turned 37 today. Great way to celebrate.                                                            @ryandittrick

4:58: Matt Cullen makes a nifty move, backhanding it in-close five-hole past Dubnyk to tie the game up. | EDM 1, MIN 1  



0:00: Shots on goal after two periods are 19 to 18 for Minnesota.  
           
In his first game of the season, Theo Peckham is fourth on the team in icetime at 13:12.
           
20:00: The third period is now underway.

17:40: Devin Setoguchi takes a feed in the slot and slips it just inside the right post to give Minnesota the lead. | MIN 2, EDM 1

17:13: Theo Peckham takes a hooking penalty to put the Wild back on the man advantage.

Krueger comes out of the TV timeout with Hemsky on a line with Hall and RNH. Paajarvi with Gagner and Eberle now...shaking it up.                                                            @dantencer

10:24: Gagner is sprung all alone on a breakaway and makes a deke but just misses the net on his chance.

6:02: Matt Cullen fires a wrist shot from the circle past Dubnyk to give the Wild a two-goal lead. | MIN 3, EDM 1

2:33: Taylor Hall collides with Cal Clutterbuck in a knee-on-knee collision resulting in a major penalty and a game misconduct to the Oilers winger.

0:00: Oilers lose 3-1 to the Wild. Shots on net were even at 28.