It’s been quite a week for the Edmonton Oilers, welcoming the Tampa Bay Lightning to town, visiting the Minnesota Wild, and capping it off with a matinee affair with the Vegas Golden Knights.

The path to a winless run was there. All three teams have given the Oilers fits in recent years. Tampa Bay has beaten the Oilers handily in three of their prior six meetings, but in the other three, the Oilers won relatively tight games. That happened against Tuesday, starting the week off on the right foot, as the Oilers ground the Lightning to a halt.

Then there was a trip to Minnesota, where the Oilers have lost six straight games, seemingly struggling the same on home ice. But this one was different, as the Oilers carried a 2-1 lead after the first period, building it all the way up to a stunning 7-1 win over the best team in the league.

And Saturday, there were equally tight collars about having to face Vegas, who had given Edmonton fits in recent years, as well as winning the first two games of the year 4-2 and 1-0. Once again, the Oilers didn’t let that happen.

With the minutes winding down on a back-and-forth first period, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins would give the Oilers a 1-0 lead heading into the first intermission. The Oilers would come out with their foot on the gas pedal, pouncing on the Golden Knights with a four-goal flurry from Zach Hyman, Connor Brown, Leon Draisaitl and Corey Perry. Vegas would respond late in that second period, though, as Viktor Olofsson and Ivan Barbashev scored two quick ones.

While Jack Eichel would nearly leave Mattias Ekholm with a serious injury after a dangerous, unpenalized hit into the boards and Brett Howden would capitalize on a Stuart Skinner gaffe early in the third, there was nothing that could rain on the Oilers’ parade.

In fact, this is the type of hockey Oilers fans have been waiting to see and once again, when the snow starts falling outside in Edmonton, the team seems to wake up and play some of their best hockey. The team has now improved to 8-1 since November 23rd, and their numbers over that stretch have been some of the best.

There’s no team with a better points percentage than the Oilers .889, and they’ve gotten incredible goaltending in this stretch, with a .934 save percentage that also ranks tops in the league over that stretch. They’re choking teams out, with 1.9 goals against per hour rate best in the league, while also scoring 4.3 goals per hour, the second-best rate over that time.

Their special teams? Oh, they’ve been special, with a power play humming at a 36.4 percent clip, third in the league, and an efficient penalty kill working off 84.2 percent of the penalties taken since Nov. 23.

All in all the Oilers are starting to fire on all cylinders, and that should be a scary thing for 31 other teams in the league.

The Oilers will have a few more tough tests next week, as the Flordia Panthers and Boston Bruins come into town.

Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist, making up one-half of the DFO DFS Report. He can be followed on Twitter at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach@thenationnetwork.com.