Eberle scores twice, Oilers sweep Flames for first time

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) Jordan Eberle had two goals and two assists, Laurent Brossoit stopped 38 shots for his first NHL win and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Calgary Flames 7-3 on Saturday night to sweep the four-game season series for the first time.

Eberle's wrist shot at 5:58 of the first period made it 3-0 and prompted Flames coach Glen Gulutzan to swap Brian Elliott in goal for Chad Johnson, who allowed three goals on four shots.

The Oilers kept capitalizing on Calgary's mistakes in the second period. After Connor McDavid's power-play goal at 3:57, Eberle scored again at 12:24, making it 5-0 when he was left open in the slot to deflect in Matt Benning's pass.

Eberle has three goals in his last three games after ending an 18-game goalless drought.

Anton Slepyshev, Mark Letestu, Oscar Klefbom and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored for Edmonton. The streaking Oilers are 5-0-1 in their last six.

Sean Monahan extended his goal-scoring streak to five games and Matthew Tkachuk and Lance Bouma also scored for Calgary.

Brossoit won in his seventh career start. He was a Flames sixth-round draft pick in 2011 that was part of the November 2013 trade in which Calgary acquired defenseman Ladislav Smid.

Elliott made 23 saves in relief, getting tagged with the loss to fall to 8-11-2.

Slow starts have been a trend for Calgary lately and that chronic issue continued as the Flames yielded the opening goal for a seventh straight game.

At 1:17, Drake Caggiula won a faceoff back to Slepyshev, who quickly buried his third goal past Johnson.

Edmonton made it 2-0 when Zach Kassian zipped a pass through the slot that Letestu one-timed past Johnson. Eberle's goal came 36 seconds later and was the result of a poor defensive play by Jyrki Jokipakka, who left Eberle with a clear path to the net off the wing.

Tkachuk's deflection on a power play at 15:55 of the second finally got Calgary on the scoreboard, but Edmonton answered back with a power-play goal of its own 58 seconds later. Klefbom's slap shot from the blue line bounced crazily off the ice in the slot and eluded Elliott.

NOTES: Monahan's goal streak ties him for the second-longest in the NHL this season. Nashville's James Neal had a six-game goal streak in November. ... Fourteen penalty minutes for Tkachuk gives the Flames rookie 90 on the season. That's second to Dallas' Antoine Roussel (98). ... Johnson has given up seven goals on 25 shots in his last two starts.

Oilers: Begin a two-game California swing at Anaheim on Wednesday night.

Flames: Open a three-game Eastern Canada trip on Monday night in Toronto.