NHL-Highlights of Wednesday's NHL games

Dec 21 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of National Hockey League games on Wednesday: Flyers 3, Capitals 2 (SO) Playing against the Washington Capitals for the first time since getting pulled in last year's first-round playoff loss, Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Steve Mason turned aside 36 shots en route to a 3-2 shootout victory Wednesday night at the Wells Fargo Center. Jakub Voracek and Wayne Simmonds scored for the Flyers in the shootout and Michael Raffl and Claude Giroux netted goals in regulation. The Flyers snapped a modest 0-1-1 streak and pushed their record to 20-11-4. Andre Burakovsky and Lars Eller scored for the Capitals, whose loss was their second in a row following a six-game win streak. Washington fell to 19-8-4, a drop-off from its 23-6-2 record through 31 games last season. Oilers 3, Coyotes 2 Edmonton Oilers got two goals from their fourth line and Cam Talbot made 34 saves as Edmonton beat Arizona 3-2 at Gila River Arena to snap the longest points streak in the NHL since Philadelphia went 32 straight against the Los Angeles Kings from Oct. 22, 1974 to Feb 5, 1983. Mark Letestu and Milan Lucic scored first-period goals for the Oilers and left winger Matt Hendricks made it 3-0 with his first goal of the season in the second period. Arizona got goals from Martin Hanzal and Oliver Ekman-Larsson and 19 saves from Mike Smith, but dropped its third straight game while playing its 20th one-goal game of the season.