Edmonton dominated this game from start to finish, and it began right out of the gate. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins opened the scoring 3:00 in when Eric Comrie, starting on back-to-back nights, kicked out a big rebound that Nugent-Hopkins buried for his 7th of the season.
Just 1:37 later, Leon Draisaitl slipped behind the Jets’ defence on a breakaway and beat Comrie glove side on the backhand. His 17th made it 2-0.
Matt Savoie kept the bleeding going at 12:36 when Comrie gave up another rebound off a Mattias Ekholm shot, and Savoie tapped it in.
Evan Bouchard made it 4-0 on the power play at 6:29, hammering a one-timer set up by Draisaitl.
Edmonton led 4-0 after one while outshooting Winnipeg 16-5. Comrie didn’t return after allowing four goals, with Thomas Milic taking over to start the second.
The Oilers kept rolling early in the middle frame. Curtis Lazar beat Milic glove side on his first shot of the night at 17:18 for his second of the year, the only goal of the period.
Gabriel Vilardi broke Stuart Skinner’s shutout bid with his 13th at 15:48 of the third, finishing a pretty tic-tac-toe play with Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor.
David Tomasek restored Edmonton’s five-goal lead with his third of the season at 6:31, and Cole Koepke scored his second in as many games at 4:35 to make it 6-2.
That was all. Winnipeg simply wasn’t ready to go, and the first period ended things early.
Puck drop is at 7:00 p.m. CST on TSN3.