EDMONTON – Goals have not come especially easy this season for the Edmonton Oilers, but you wouldn’t have known that from their second-period outburst on Tuesday.

Connor McDavid had a pair of goals and Evan Bouchard added three assists as the Oilers exploded for five second-period goals to get past the sizzling Utah Mammoth 6-3.

Trailing 2-0 after a sloppy first period to the Mammoth, who came into the contest as one of the hottest teams in the league with a seven-game winning streak, the Oilers finally seemed to snap out of their season-starting stupor and looked more like the team that has advanced to the Stanley Cup final the last two campaigns.

“We kind of needed a bit of a wake-up in-between the first and second,” said veteran Oilers forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. “I thought we respo

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