Oilers salvage road trip thanks to Zach Hyman’s overtime winner against Jets

What they said…

Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch on facing a motivated team in Winnipeg… 

“Coming into this building, we knew they were going to be ready. They had a road trip where they’d lost three in a row, coming back home, and a very good hockey team. We were prepared for a hard test, and I believe we got a pretty hard test.”

“I didn’t like our first five to seven minutes of the game and probably a three-minute stretch there in the third period where they got the two goals. Other than that, I thought our team played really well and (was) doing a lot of little things. We had 40-plus shots on net, got a power-play goal and the penalty kill was really solid. So, a lot of things to be happy about.”

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on the Oilers stopping Winnipeg’s momentum…

“This game is a game of momentum. (When) the momentum swung in their way, I thought we did a good job of settling it down and staying composed on the bench and just go back to doing what we do, and we came up with a win.”

Darnell Nurse on facing a tight, physical game against a tough team on the road… 

“It was a hard game from start to finish, and they’re a team that’s up there in the standings. They’ve won a lot of games, especially here on home ice, so it was a good win for us.

It was one of those games. A pretty physical game. We go through a lot of regular-season games where there’s not a ton of physicality, and then all of a sudden tonight, there was quite a lot.”

Connor Brown on Zach Hyman’s overtime winner and 51st goal of the season…

“He’s a big-time player for us and he shows up time and time again in big moments, and we’re lucky to have him.”

“We don’t think we’re done. We’ve got a job to do in this regular season and it’s one game at a time, and I really liked our process in the game tonight.”

Winnipeg head coach Rick Bowness on his team’s inconsistent play…

“The first period shows you how good we can be and then the second period just shows you how bad we are when we get away from the way we’re supposed to play. Yeah, we got it back in the third, so it was kind of like that. That’s how I assess it then. The first was great. The second was terrible. And the third was even.”