Rejoice, the Edmonton Oilers have won a regulation game.

On Saturday evening, the Oilers played their seventh and final game on their road trip, visiting the Florida Panthers. They got a brief modicum of revenge on the team that has beaten them in the last two Stanley Cup Finals, winning 6-3 for their first regulation win in November. Let’s take a look at what went on in this one!

Just 25 seconds in, the Oilers opened the scoring. Jack Roslovic took a shot from an awful angle, but it found a hole through Sergei Bobrovsky to give the right-shot forward his eighth goal of the season.

The Panthers tied the game at one thanks to a goal six and a half minutes into the game, as Anton Lundell poked the puck in. It didn’t take long for the Oilers to get their lead back, as Roslovic was able to score his second of the game with a nice shot over Bobrovsky’s glove.

With about six minutes left in the first period, the Oilers extended their lead to two, as Mattias Ekholm fired a loose puck into the back of the net from the slot. It was the left-shot defenceman’s second goal of the season.

What’s better than a 3-1 lead? A 4-1 lead. The Oilers got their fourth nearly seven minutes into the second period, as Vasily Podkolzin went up high on Bobrovsky, finding what little daylight there was.

The Panthers are the reigning back-to-back Stanley Cup champions for a reason, so a push came. Their first came midway through the second, as Mackie Samoskevich was left all alone above the faceoff dot, one-timing it past Skinner. Three and a half minutes later, Sam Reinhart scored on the power play to bring the Panthers to within one.

Thankfully, the Oilers bent but didn’t break. They were able to hold onto the one-goal lead before Connor McDavid and Matthew Savoie scored empty netters for the 6-3 win.

Starting with Connor Clattenburg, he had two opportunities to score his first career goal, being robbed in the first period and just missing the net on a two-on-one early in the second. He wasn’t much of a physical presence/pest until late in the game, as he gave A.J. Greer a cross-check after the Panther got into it with Mattias Janmark. With Greer tied up, Clattenburg got a few punches in and even put him in a headlock. Good stuff.

Speaking of Greer, he needs to be suspended for that gutless play early in the first period. During a scrum, it looked as if he and Trent Frederic were going to drop the mitts. Greer didn’t, and instead used a double-leg takedown. Very dangerous, and he should be suspended for it.

That was it for the chipiness in this game. There were some big hits, though. A Panther laid a picture-perfect hip check, while Ty Emberson, Leon Draisaitl, and even Connor McDavid had big hits as well.

That was easily Evan Bouchard and Mattias Ekholm’s best game of the season. Both defencemen finished as +5, not too often you see that. Bouchard has three assists, and Ekholm had a goal and two assists. Darnell Nurse was the other defender with a point.

It was a quiet game for McDavid (empty net goal) and Draisaitl (primary assist), but the Oilers’ depth came through. Jack Roslovic scored twice, what an addition he has been, while Vasily Podkolzin scored his fourth of the season.

Matthew Savoie had a great game. His lone point came on an empty net goal, but he was all over the place and was able to force a handful of turnovers with his forecheck, one of which led to a goal.

It was a nice bounce-back game from Stuart Skinner, stopping 35 of 38 shots for a .921 save percentage. In the second period, the Panthers fired 20 shots on the Oilers’ netminder. He gave them a chance to win this game.

For the first time since Nov. 10, the Oilers play a home game on Nov. 25. They’ll host the Dallas Stars at 7:00 PM MT, before heading back on the road for one game against the Seattle Kraken later in the week.