Well, the Edmonton Oilers responded.

Still stinging and red-faced after a 9-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday, the Oilers made good on their vow to be harder, smarter and more determined Monday against the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets.

For a while.

With the crowd at Rogers Place waiting breathlessly for the steaming-mad Oilers to take their frustrations out on the 28th-place team in the NHL, the home team gave them about 25 good minutes.

Maybe 30.

But it turned out to be enough.

A little more than a period after being booed off their own ice at the second intermission, the Oilers were celebrating a wild, crazy and incredibly fortuitous comeback victory.

Connor McDavid scored two spectacular goals in the third period to revive a game that looked dead and buried, Jake

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