LAS VEGAS — Slowly, and we’re not yet ready to say surely, all the elements of a good hockey team are beginning to arrive for the Edmonton Oilers.

With six wins and 13 points in their past 10 games — and a couple of losses that you can live with — the game Northern Alberta has waited all season for is emerging like a springtime perennial, a solid nine games and three weeks before the first playoff game.

“It's been only two games,” cautioned Mattias Ekholm after Edmonton capped a perfect two-game road trip with a 4-3 overtime win at Vegas, “but I think that there's been a trend in the last 10 that the wins we've gotten haven't been lucky. They've been well earned.

“We're getting solid goaltending. The D pairs are gelling, all three of them. Our lines are coming together and we know more what we're supposed to do out there. We look more like a machine that is maybe a little bit more well-oiled. A little more well-working.”

On a steamy Thursday night just off The Strip, Edmonton led by a goal three separate times over Vegas. The Golden Knights have trailed more minutes this season than any other NHL club, and never led for a second Thursday.

In the end, however, there were two key moments that allowed for Evan Bouchard’s eventual overtime winner:

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