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EDMONTON, Alberta – The Minnesota Wild sweptwing divagation the Edmonton Oilers.

Jose Theodore prefabricated 28 saves and Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Mikko Koivu aided on every threesome Minnesota goals in the Wild's 3-1 conclusion over the Oilers on weekday night.

The Wild sweptwing the six-game flavour series.

"It just happens," Oilers coach blackamoor Renney said. "They aren't into our psyche. There is nothing we can't overcome here. We had a real beatific effort against this team tonight. We just ran out of gas because of the penalisation situation. We hit every think to think we crapper beat them and we'll verify that into incoming season."

Brent Burns, Jared Spurgeon and Andrew Brunette scored to help Minnesota intend for just the ordinal time in its terminal 14 games. Teemu Hartikainen scored for Edmonton. The Oilers, headed for their ordinal straight terminal locate closing in the NHL, hit lost 13 of their terminal 15.

The Oilers' Theo Peckham and Wild defenseman Clayton Stoner got the mettlesome soured to a rough move with a prolonged fight at edifice cover immediately after the inaugural faceoff.

It launched a ferocious prototypal punctuation that featured individual scuffles.

Minnesota was presented a 7-minute noesis endeavor after a one-sided piece when Edmonton's Steve MacIntyre jumped Brad Staubitz after the Wild nervy took a run at rookie Magnus Paajarvi.

"He's a great teammate," Renney said about MacIntyre. "He'll do whatever he crapper to protect his teammates. He certainly took it upon himself to do that."

Just over a time into the daylong noesis play, the Wild gave whatever of that plus backwards when Cal Clutterbuck was presented a field penalisation for running Peckham into the boards.

However, the Wild did intend a content nearby the end of the noesis endeavor when comedian scored on a 4-on-3 plus with Edmonton's Chris VandeVelde also in the penalisation box, bringing a double minor for high-sticking.

"You physique up rivalries with teams and don't block what has happened in the past," Staubitz said.

"We came in here with a mindset of coming in and playing hornlike and to intend our 20th agency win. We had a thickened loss in Vancouver and we played hornlike and with emotion. That was a daylong prototypal punctuation but I intellection we stuck unitedly and fared well."

Minnesota went ahead 2-0 early in the ordinal when Bouchard's effort deflected soured a defender to Spurgeon in face of the slot for an cushy tap-in time netminder Devan Dubnyk.

Less than 1 1/2 transactions after Edmonton, responded with Hartikainen's tap-in goal.

Edmonton came close to tying it with 8 transactions to endeavor in the second, but a power-play effort by Jim Vandermeer rattled soured of the post. The Oilers looked to hit scored on the noesis endeavor with 5 transactions mitt as the puck was pushed in during a scramble, but the officials ruled that the signaling had been panting before the puck decussate the line.

Minnesota sealed the mettlesome with Brunette's empty-netter with 49 seconds left.

NOTES: The teams will closing their seasons Sunday. The Wild host Dallas, patch the Oilers are in Colorado. ... Eberle locked up the Oilers scoring title with his 43rd saucer of the season, surpassing Taylor Hall, Ales Hemsky and Sam Gagner, who are every scraped for the rest of the season. ... The Oilers held a pregame start for unnoticeable vocaliser Apostle Lorieau, the direct anthem vocaliser at Edmonton home games since 1981.

(This edition CORRECTS Wild 3, Oilers 1. New approach. Corrects to weekday night.)

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