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POST-GAME NOTES

WHO’S HOT: • had a and an assist tonight, giving him 4-1=5 totals in four of his last seven games. • Colin Miller had a goal tonight, snapping a seven-game scoreless stretch since an assist Dec. 18 vs. Los Angeles. • David Krejci had a goal tonight, giving him 3-3=6 totals in four of his last six games. • Austin Czarnik had an assist tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in three of his last five games. • Torey Krug had an assist tonight, giving him eight assists in six of his last eight games. • David Pastrnak had an assist tonight, snapping a seven-game scoreless stretch since he had 1-1=2 totals Dec. 14 at Pitts- burgh. • Kevan Miller had an assist tonight for his first of the season. • Brad Marchand had an assist tonight, giving him 1-4=5 totals in five of his last seven games. • Edmonton’s had three goals tonight, giving him 6-1=7 totals in five of his last seven games ... He now has a career season-high of 14 goals on the season with his first career NHL hat trick. • Edmonton’s Connor McDavid had two assists tonight, giving him 2-4=6 totals in four of his last nine games. • Edmonton’s Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a goal tonight, giving him 3-1=4 totals in four of his last seven games. • Edmonton’s had an assist tonight, giving him 1-7=8 totals in six of his last eight games. • Edmonton’s had an assist tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in three of his last four games played. • Edmonton’s Matthew Benning had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in three of his last four games.

THIS AND THAT: • With tonight’s 4-3 win, the Oilers have snapped Boston’s 16-game point streak over Edmonton at 13-0-3 ... It had been the longest active head-to-head point streak in the NHL and the Oilers have now stopped what had been the two longest such ac- tive streaks, as their 3-2 win in Arizona on Dec. 21 ended the Coyotes’ point streak vs. the Oilers at 21-0-4 ... It is Edmonton’s first regulation win over the Bruins since a 6-1 victory in Edmonton on Oct. 17, 2000 and it is their first regulation win in Boston since a 6-0 victory on Nov. 7, 1996. • The Bruins have now killed off 14 straight times short over the last three-plus games since their last power play goal allowed in Buffalo on Dec. 29. • The Bruins opened tonight their tenth set of three games in four nights ... They now have a 4-5-1 record in game ones, 3-4-2 in game twos and 3-5-1 in game threes of those sets this season.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 1 for 3 (33.3%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 18 for 124 on the power play this season (14.5%) and they have allowed five shorthanded goals. • The Oilers went 0 for 1 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 27 for 129 on the power play this season (20.9%) and they have allowed three shorthanded goals. • The Bruins went 1 for 1 (100.0%) on the kill tonight ... They are now 121 for 138 overall on the penalty kill this season (87.7%) and they have scored two shorthanded goals. • The Oilers went 2 for 3 (66.7%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 99 for 122 on the penalty kill this season (81.1%) ... They have scored three shorthanded goals.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 313 straight regular season and playoff games starting on Dec. 5, 2009 vs. Ottawa. • Their last non-sellout game at TD Garden was on Dec. 2, 2009 when a Wednesday game vs. the drew 16, 553.

Thursday, january 5, 2017 ... TD Garden; Boston MA