Edmonton @ Nashville preview

Last Meeting ( Oct 27, 2018 ) Edmonton 5, Nashville 3

The Edmonton Oilers appear to have turned the corner following a demoralizing stretch in which it lost 11 of 12 contests (1-8-3). After answering that run with consecutive victories, the visiting Oilers bid for their second straight triumph following a 13-game winless stretch versus the Nashville Predators when the clubs meet at Bridgestone Arena on Monday.

"If you compete at this level like we're doing, you give yourself a chance against anyone every night," Edmonton coach Ken Hitchcock told reporters following Saturday's 2-1 win over Anaheim. "Now we're on the other side of these one-goal games, and we're going on the road where quite frankly we play better than we do at home." The Oilers begin their season-high five-game road trip at Nashville, where they ended a 13-game skid (0-11-2) against the Predators with a 5-3 victory on Oct. 27. Nashville is concluding a three-game homestand after being shut out for the fourth time - all at Bridgestone Arena - following Saturday's 5-0 setback to Colorado. "We're in the business of winning hockey games, and it didn't happen (Saturday)," Predators coach Peter Laviolette told reporters following his team's fifth loss in eight outings. "We'll look at it and we'll work to be better. There're a couple of games in the last 15 where I don't think we competed very hard or we didn't play very hard; I didn't think that was the case (on Saturday)."

TV: 8 p.m. ET, Sportsnet West (Edmonton), FS Tennessee (Nashville)

ABOUT THE OILERS (26-29-6): Leon Draisaitl extended his point streak to six games and pushed his point total to 18 (12 goals, six assists) in his last 13 contests after setting up Sam Gagner's second-period goal against the Ducks. The 23-year-old Draisaitl scored two of his career-high 36 goals in the most recent meeting with the Predators while his 74 points are three shy of his personal best, set over 82 games in 2016-17. Gagner has gotten acclimated fairly quickly to his new team by scoring in back-to-back contests while playing in just four games since being acquired from Vancouver on Feb. 15 for center Ryan Spooner.

ABOUT THE PREDATORS (36-23-5): Captain Roman Josi, who scored in a 3-0 win in Edmonton on Oct. 20, has 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in 12 games this month. Viktor Arvidsson and Ryan Johansen have slowed down following their respective sterling starts to February, with the former netting seven of his team-leading 26 goals in his first eight contests while the latter has answered a six-game point streak by being held off the scoresheet in four straight outings. Arvidsson scored in that first encounter with the Oilers while the latter had three assists in the more recent meeting.

OVERTIME

1. Nashville D Mattias Ekholm, who notched two assists in the first game against Edmonton this season, has just four points (one goal, three assists) in his last 12 outings.

2. Oilers captain C Connor McDavid will sit out the second contest of a two-game suspension for his hit to the head of New York Islanders D Nick Leddy.

3. Predators D P.K. Subban has one goal and two assists in two meetings with Edmonton this season.

PREDICTION: Predators 3, Oilers 2