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Oilers host Blue Jackets on Grant Fuhr night

On the night former great Grant Fuhr will be honored, the game losing streak in front of the former winning goaltender versus the Columbus Blue Jackets .Fuhr backstopped the Oilers to four championships and is a member of the Hall of Fame. The Oilers are counting on Fuhr to bring some magic back into Rexall Place , where they are 0-2 so far on a six-game homestand. They are 0-2-1 in their last three contests overall and suffered their eighth loss in the last 11 tries with Wednesday's 3-2 shootout loss versus Minnesota.Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had a goal and an assist for the Oilers, who blew a 2-0 lead and got 27 saves from Nikolai Khabibulin ."We did some good things especially in the first and then we just had a short amount of time in the second where we let our foot off the gas and they were able to capitalize," Edmonton's Sam Gagner said. "It's just the little things we just weren't hard on pucks and turned pucks over and they were able to get some life and ultim...

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