ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Ticker) -- The Minnesota Wild, not the Edmonton Oilers, looked like the team at the end of a long road trip.
Ty Conklin stopped 22 shots for his first NHL shutout and Ethan Moreau and Mike York scored first-period goals as the Oilers wrapped up a successful six-game trip with a 2-0 blanking of the Wild.
Making his third straight start in place of the injured Tommy Salo, Conklin made six saves in the opening period, seven in the second and nine in the third.
"We were keeping the shots out to the perimeter as best as possible and keeping everything out from in front of the net," said Conklin, who was playing his 11th NHL game.
"He faced a couple tough shots," Oilers coach Craig MacTavish aid. "He was right on the puck, just real solid. He made it a little adventuresome at the end, when he got wrapped up behind the net and went for a little skate."
Moreau scored the only goal Conklin needed on Edmonton's first shot of the night. Off a turnover by defenseman Willie Mitchell, Moreau put a short backhander under the right arm of goaltender Dwayne Roloson for his fifth goal at the 74-second mark.
York capped the scoring at 15:39. Radek Dvorak's behind-the-back shot was stopped by Roloson. Minnesota's Wes Walz could not fish the loose puck off the goal line and York pushed it in for his fourth goal of the season and first in seven games.
Edmonton went 3-2-1 on the trip, which matches its longest of the season.
"We won in some tough buildings, we tied in Ottawa," Moreau said. "We go into New York and win. Our special teams took a beating in Boston, but other than that, we played well almost every game."
The Wild generated few scoring chances and had a three-game home winning streak snapped.
"I don't know if we weren't working. I thought they placed a heck of a hockey game," Minnesota left wing Andrew Brunette said. "They really challenged us to make plays, and we didn't make the proper plays. That's what they always do."
Wild coach Jacques Lemaire was not happy with extended shifts taken by some of his players.
"Anybody gets off the ice when you're tired, don't just stay on and do nothing and waste passes," he said. "Do that in the garage league."
Minnesota's best chance to break through came with 4:35 to go in the second period when Jim Dowd could not handle a rebound and sent the puck through the crease.
The Wild lost center Marc Chouinard, who suffered a fractured jaw when he was hit in the face with a puck in the first period.
