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Oilers Downs Blues; Blackhawks Make Moves

Cam Talbot made 25 saves, and Milan Lucic and Mark Letestu scored to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night.
 
Talbot, making his league-best 57th start of the season, snapped a two-game losing streak.
 
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins assisted on both goals for the Oilers, who finished their six-game road trip with a 3-3 record.
 
Paul Stastny scored for St. Louis as the Blues lost their first game since trading defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk to the Washington Capitals on Monday night.
 
Jake Allen stopped 23 of 25 shots and St. Louis dropped its fourth straight coming off a six-game winning streak.
 
St. Louis opened the scoring on its first power play of the game when Stastny deflected Alex Pietrangelo's shot past Talbot for his 16th goal of the season.
 
The Blues are at Winnipeg on Friday night to start a three-game road trip.
 
>>Blackhawks Make Moves
 
The Blackhawks have reacquired defenseman Johnny Oduya, who left in free agency for the Dallas Stars after being part of two Stanley Cup championships in Chicago.
 
Dallas traded Oduya to the Blackhawks on Tuesday night in exchange for young forward Mark McNeill and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2018 NHL draft.
 
Oduya first played for Chicago from 2012-15, with nine goals and 34 assists in 219 games. He appeared in 71 playoff games with the Blackhawks, including their Stanley Cup championships in 2013 and 2015.
 
The 35-year-old Oduya has one goal and six assists in 37 games this season with the Stars.
 
McNeill had six goals and 22 assists in 58 games for Rockford in the AHL. He has played in only one NHL game.
 
The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to one-year contract extensions through next season with defenseman Michal Rozsival and forward Jordin Tootoo.
 
In five seasons in Chicago, the 38-year-old Rozsival has played on two championship teams. He has one goal and one assist this year.
 
The 34-year-old Tootoo has played in 36 games after signing with Chicago last summer.
 
The Blackhawks announced the moves on Tuesday.
 
Chicago, second in the Western Conference, goes for its fifth straight win and 10th in 11 games when it hosts Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

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