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Still stinging and red-faced after a 9-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday, the Oilers made good on their vow to be harder, smarter and more determined Monday against the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets. Article content Article content

For a while.

With the crowd at Rogers Place waiting breathlessly for the steaming-mad Oilers to take their frustrations out on the 28th-place team in the NHL, the home team gave them about 25 good minutes.

Maybe 30.

But it turned out to be enough.

A little more than a period after being booed off their own ice at the second intermission, the Oilers were celebrating a wild, crazy and incredibly fortuitous comeback victory.

Connor McDavid scored two spectacular goals in the third period

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