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WASHINGTON - During a season in which theyve already gone through two coaches and won fewer games than any team in the league, the Edmonton Oilers entered the All-Star break with a victory to savour.Teddy Purcell scored the decisive goal in a shootout after Edmonton rallied from a two-goal deficit late in regulation, and the Oilers defeated Washington 5-4 Tuesday night to end the Capitals seven-game home winning streak.Purcell beat goaltender Braden Holtby in the fourth round of the shootout after Edmontons Viktor Fasth stopped Eric Fehr.The victory was the 12th in 47 games for Edmonton and only the fourth on the road. After defeating Florida in a shootout on Saturday, the Oilers have a week to sit on their two-game winning streak.We can definitely take some positives from this, coach Todd Nelson said. It was a good character win. The guys stuck with it.The Capitals, on the other hand, enter the break mired in a three-game skid after blowing a late lead at home against a team that has endured losing streaks of seven and nine games.I said to the guys, Maybe we dont make the playoffs, coach Barry Trotz said. There are some good teams out there.Washington has earned at least a point in 19 of its last 22 games. But that was of little consolation in a sombre locker room.Its just disappointing, defenceman Brooks Orpik said. Its the last-place team in the league, but its pretty obvious that any team can beat any team in this league if theyre fully committed.Alex Ovechkin scored twice in the opening 14 minutes for the Capitals, who held leads of 2-0, 3-1 and 4-2 before the Oilers made one final push during the final five minutes of regulation.Purcell scored at 15:49 to make it 4-3, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tied it with a wrist shot at 18:53 after Fasth vacated the net for an extra skater.Derek Roy and Nikita Nikitin also scored in regulation for Edmonton.There were a couple of times in the second (period) that I think we were thinking that theres no chance we should even be in this game, Purcell said. We hung around and found a way.Ovechkin has five goals in his last three games and 27 for the season. It was his seventh multi-goal game of the season and 92nd of his career, one short of the franchise record held by Peter Bondra.Ovechkin would have felt a lot better about that if his two strikes came in a winning effort.We had to forget about it and get ready for the most important time of the season, he said.Ovechkin put Washington up 1-0 at 1:48 of the first period, firing a slap shot over Fasths left shoulder during a delayed penalty.Ovechkin scored again at 13:58 following an interference call on Edmontons Jeff Petry. The slap shot, fired from the left circle, smashed the goalie camera that hangs from the back of the net.Held to one shot on goal over the first 14 minutes, the Oilers closed to 2-1 when Roy scored at 14:51.Jay Beagle restored the two-goal cushion at 17:34 when he deflected a shot by John Carlson into the net. It was Beagles seventh goal of the season, a new career high.Nikitin got a power-play goal at 19:56 of the second period, firing a lengthy slap shot just three seconds after Matt Niskanen was sent to the penalty box for kneeing Roy.Nicklas Backstrom made it 4-2 at 6:38 of the third period, deflecting a shot by Carlson past Fasth.The lead wouldnt last.Theres a point we gave away, Trotz said.Notes: Edmonton swept the season series, 2-0, with its first win in Washington since 2009. ... Carlson has 21 points in his last 25 games. ... Fasth improved to 4-10-2. ... Mike Green had two assists for Washington and has four in his last three games. . -- The Denver Broncos locked up a shutdown cornerback, only his name wasnt Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie. . Having won the first leg 1-0 in Barcelona, Madrid entered the match at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium already in control and quickly sealed its place in the semifinals when Jese Rodriguez scored in the seventh minute. http://www.footballpantherspro.com/pant ... ue-jersey/. Ricciardo made it only halfway around the Jerez track before his RB10 rolled to a stop and began spouting smoke from the back. After team mechanics tended to the car, Ricciardo went back out for a mere two trips around the circuit before calling it quits. .The surgery was performed by Dr. William Meyers at the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia.Letestu had three goals and two assists in nine games before being injured in late October.The 29-year-old has 54 goals and 65 assists in 273 career NHL games, including 39 goals and 51 assists in 188 games with the Blue Jackets. . Starting from pole, the 26-year-old Vettel turned in a trademark clinical performance to win the Indian Grand Prix on Sunday and join F1 greats Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher as just the third driver to win four consecutive championships.WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says he believes the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will be safe and is not discouraging Americans from attending. Obama says Russian authorities "understand the stakes" involved in securing the games and the potential threats against the events. He says the U.S. is co-ordinating with Russia and officials have looked at the Russian security plans.dddddddddddd Still, Obama says there are "always some risks" involved with large international gatherings like the Olympics. And he says he feels better when those types of events are held in the United States because American officials have full control over what happen. Obama spoke in an interview with CNN. ' ' '