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EDMONTON -- The new guys stole the show Tuesday night as the Winnipeg Jets battled back to defeat the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 in the season-opener for both teams at Rexall Place.
Michael Frolik scored his first two goals as a Jet, while Jacob Trouba added his first NHL marker in the victory. Mark Scheifele and Brian Little also scored Winnipeg, which made its first regular-season visit to Edmonton in 17 years.
Mike Brown, Jesse Joensuu, Boyd Gordon and Ales Hemsky scored for the Oilers, who held a 4-2 lead before conceding three consecutive goals in Dallas Eakins' coaching debut.
Trouba tied the game at 11:06 of the third period. Frolik added the winner with just over five minutes left in the contest.
The last time the Jets traveled to face the Oilers was March 29, 1996, a few months before the franchise relocated to Phoenix.
Perhaps commemorating the anniversary, the game resembled an old-fashion Smythe Division battle, where the teams traded scoring chances and defense was all but an afterthought.
Luke Gazdic, claimed off waivers by the Oilers on Sunday from the Dallas Stars, picked up an assist on Brown's goal 2:21 into the game, bouncing a centering feed off a Jets defenseman before Brown tipped it past goaltender Ondrej Pavelec.
A sixth-round pick of the Dallas Stars (No. 172) in the 2007 NHL Draft, Gazdic was a late cut from Dallas' training camp and was on his way down to the team's AHL affiliate in Austin before getting the call from the Oilers, who were in need of muscle when Steve MacIntyre went down with a knee injury. Ironically, MacIntyre was injured trying to make a hit on Gazdic in the teams' final preseason game. MacIntyre is out indefinitely, having been picked up off waivers himself from the Pittsburgh Penguins.
In the second period, Gazdic flexed that muscle, getting into a fight with Jets forward Chris Thorburn.
The Jets tied the game on their first shot when Scheifele beat Oilers goaltender Devan Dubnyk from a sharp angle at 3:25 of the opening period.
Little gave the Jets the lead with the 100th goal of his career, waiting out defenceman Nick Schultz in the slot and beating Dubnyk at 16:12 of the first.
Before the end of the period, Gordon scored his first goal for the Oilers, getting a stick on a point-shot from Justin Schultz and tipping it past Pavelec at 18:08.
In the second, Hemsky, who the Oilers were trying to trade this summer, gave his team the lead at 3:38, walking around Little in the slot and finding the top corner against Pavelec.
Joensuu, who the Oilers picked signed as a free agent from the New York Islanders, extended the Oilers' lead at 7:53, batting in a rebound past a sprawled Pavelec on the power play.
In the third, Trouba tied the game, stepping in front of a Taylor Hall pass a center, heading back the other way and muscling a knuckler past Dubnyk.
Frolik scored the winner at 14:58, converting a tap-in off a great behind-the-back feed from Eric Tangradi.
Mark Arcobello had the Oilers' best chance to tie the game, but was stopped by Pavelec from in tight.
Pavelec finished with 34 saves for the win. Dubnyk stopped 23 shots for Edmonton.
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