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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Edmonton Oilers avoided tying the franchises longest home losing streak the last time out. Dallas Eakins team now takes aim at its first road win in a month when the Oilers visit San Jose on Tuesday for the finale of a home-and-home series. Edmonton halted several skids in Saturdays 2-1 triumph over the visiting Sharks. The Oilers snapped an 11-game overall slide with the close win and also ended an 0-7-1 slide as the host. Edmonton picked up its first home victory since beating Montreal on Oct. 27 and avoided matching a club-record nine-game home skid set from Oct. 16-Nov. 24, 1993. The Oilers stopped their overall 0-7-4 skid two losses shy of tying the clubs 13-game losing streak, which was set from Dec. 31, 2009-Jan. 30, 2010. The recent win over the Sharks also marked Edmontons first victory of the season against a Western Conference opponent. The Oilers are now 1-12-4 within the conference. The Oilers havent won on the road since beating the New York Rangers on Nov. 9. Edmonton has lost five straight as the guest since that positive decision in the Big Apple, falling to 2-6-4 on the road this season. That win over the Rangers was Edmontons last before ending its lengthy slide against the Sharks. Edmonton beat the Sharks for just the second time in 10 meetings on Saturday, as David Perron scored the deciding goal in the third period of the 2-1 win at Rexall Place. Perron beat Alex Stalock with a wrist shot from the right circle to give Edmonton a 2-1 edge with 9:34 remaining in regulation. The shot deflected off San Jose defenseman Brenden Dillon and into the net for Perrons fourth goal of the season. Nail Yakupov also tallied a power-play goal in the second period for the Oilers and Ben Scrivens turned aside 20-of-21 shots for the win. This doesnt mean a lot if were not going to stick to it, said Scrivens. We have to replicate that kind of effort night after night. Scrivens could get the call again tonight after beating the Sharks for the first time in his career. He is 1-2-1 with a 2.96 goals against average in four lifetime appearances against San Jose. After completing this set against the Sharks, Edmonton will begin another home-and-home series tomorrow night when it visits Anaheim. The Ducks and Oilers will then meet at Rexall Place on Friday. Tye McGinn provided San Joses lone goal on Saturday, as the Sharks had a four-game winning streak snapped. Patrick Marleau assisted on the goal to extend his point streak to five games. Stalock made 22 saves in the loss. It was his first outing since suffering a knee injury on Nov. 8 He was sharp, he made some real good saves in the first period when we needed him, Sharks coach Todd McLellan said of Stalock. He gave us a chance to get to the [intermission] and regroup. He looked comfortable and didnt fatigue at all. There were a lot of positives in his game. Antti Niemi is expected to be back between the pipes for the Sharks tonight. He is 9-1-1 with a 2.40 GAA in 11 lifetime games against the Oilers. San Jose is 7-4-2 as the host this season and is beginning a five-game homestand tonight. Edmonton has lost three straight and eight of its last 10 at the Shark Tank. Ernie Banks Jersey . Louis and Ryan Kesler have demanded to be traded. Mark Grace Jersey .com) - On a night the Bulls played without Derrick Rose, it was time for Pau Gasol to take charge. http://www.cubsauthentic.com/customized/. The 41-year-old Northern Irishman has proved a perfect fit at Liverpool since taking over from Kenny Dalglish in the summer of 2012 and steered the team to an unexpected title challenge in the Premier League last season. Ron Santo Jersey . The 55th-ranked Istomin saved 11 of 14 break points to win in just over two hours, setting up a second round meeting with Australian Marinko Matosevic. It was the Uzbeks third win in three matches against fifth-seeded Kohlschreiber, the 2007 and 2012 tournament winner. Sammy Sosa Jersey . He also had some help Monday night.Hibbert scored a season-high 29 points to help Indiana beat the Utah Jazz 97-86 Monday night, ending the Pacers six-game losing streak.COLUMBUS, Ohio - A county coroner says a special examination will look for signs of traumatic brain injury in an Ohio State athlete found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.Dr. Anahi (AN-ih-hee) Ortiz of Franklin County says the examination by an Ohio State neuropathologist is being done because Kosta Karageorge (KOH-stah KAHR-ah-jorj) had a reported history of multiple concussions.Ortiz said Monday that an autopsy deterrmined the 22-year-old Karageorge died of a gunshot wound, but she hasnt yet definitively ruled it a suicide.ddddddddddddColumbus police said Sunday that Karageorge died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.His mother, Susan Karageorge, told police in a missing-persons report that her son had had several concussions.Karageorge was a wrestler for three years and joined the football team as a walk-on this season. ' ' '