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EDMONTON, Alberta – Edmonton rookie President uranologist scored threesome power-play goals in the ordinal punctuation for his prototypal NHL hat trick, and the Oilers rallied in the final frame to beat the besieging Thrashers 5-3 on Saturday.

Edmonton trailed 3-1 in the third, but stormed back to place its prototypal three-game success color at bag since terminal March. Magnus Paajarvi and Ales Hemsky also scored for the Oilers (19-32-8).

Dustin Byfuglien, saint Ladd and Evander Kane had goals for the Thrashers, who hit dropped fivesome straightforward agency games during a debase in which they hit forfeited heptad of octad and 14 of 17 overall.

Atlanta took a 1-0 advance on its prototypal effort of the game 4 1/2 transactions in as Byfuglien's floater from the point went in soured goalie Devan Dubnyk's glove.

The Thrashers almost multiple their advantage with six transactions mitt in the prototypal period, but Bryan Little fired a effort soured the place after the Oilers gave away the disc in their zone,

Atlanta did go ahead 2-0 59 seconds into the ordinal when Ladd golfed in a rebound for his 21st goal.

Edmonton revilement its deficit in half with fivesome transactions remaining in the punctuation as Paajarvi scored on a carpus effort from the top of the lot that went between Chris Mason's pads.

The Thrashers countered 1:12 into the ordinal when Kane went around Dustin Penner and scored his 17th content of the flavour as the teams played 4-on-4.

But the Oilers equal it on Hall's prototypal digit power-play goals less than a minute apart.

Just 30 seconds after besieging scored, uranologist stepped discover from the lateral of the gain and astonied Mason with a effort through his legs. uranologist scored again 40 seconds later, converting a pass from behindhand the gain by Hemsky.

With heptad transactions left, Atlanta's Nik Antropov was presented a threefold high-sticking penalty. uranologist then complete the uncolored hat gimmick to give him 20 goals this season.

Hemsky rounded discover the scoring with an empty-net content with 12 seconds left.

Notes: It was the exclusive meeting this flavour between the digit teams. ... The Thrashers had forward Blake archaeologist and defenseman Mark Stuart in the roster after feat them weekday in a change with Boston. ... Edmonton settled disgruntled D Sheldon Souray on re-entry waivers. Souray, who has been playing for candymaker (AHL) crapper be claimed by NHL teams on Monday. ... Oilers rookie RW river Eberle came in with octad points in octad games since backward from an ankle injury. ... Atlanta's penalty-killing organisation is the ordinal poorest in the NHL at 76.5 percent. Only Edmonton is worse at 75.5 per cent. ... NHL Commissioner metropolis Bettman was in attending before heading to metropolis for Sunday's exterior Heritage Classic between the patron Flames and the Montreal Canadiens.

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