EDMONTON - A return to home ice was apparently just what the Edmonton Oilers needed.

Jordan Eberle scored the shootout winner as the Oilers emerged with a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday.

Mark Letestu and Matt Hendricks scored in regulation for the Oilers (9-15-2), who have won just two of their last six games and were coming off a 3-0 stinker in Toronto to end a five-game road trip 1-3-1.

"We weren't at all pleased with how our road trip ended in Toronto," said Edmonton head coach Todd McLellan. "To come back and play and engage in a game against a big, physical team, was something we needed."

Goalie Anders Nilsson continued to make his case to be the Oilers' No. 1 goalie , making 38 saves, plus all three shots faced in the shootout.

"Huge win for us," Nilsson said. "We knew it was going to be a tough game going into this one and I think all the guys wanted to bounce back from the Toronto game. We didn't play our best game against them so we wanted to bounce back and show the home town fans what we're capable of."

Torey Krug and Zdeno Chara responded for the Bruins (13-8-2), who saw a five-game winning streak come to an end.

"We were average tonight," said Bruins coach Claude Julien. "Our skating game was there, but we didn't play a real hard game tonight and that's what we need to do. We needed to play hard against this team and we chose to play a little bit more their type of game."

There was no scoring in the first period, with Edmonton out-shooting the Bruins 10-8. Boston had the best chance, however, coming on a point-blank bullet from Matt Beleskey that forced Nilsson to make a big glove save.

Taylor Hall was stopped on a partial breakaway by a diving Tuukka Rask five minutes into the second period and a trailing Eberle couldn't find a way to get it into over the Boston goalie into a wide-open net.

Letestu converted on a shorthanded two-on-one give-and-go play with Hendricks to put the Oilers up 1-0 midway through the second period.

Boston tied the game with 1:33 left in the second as a Krug point shot caromed off of Edmonton defender Andrej Sekera and past Nilsson.

Hendricks tipped a Letestu shot past Rask to help the Oilers regain the lead just before the midway point of the third period.

The Bruins tied the game up again with 3:21 remaining after a ton of pressure paid of when David Krejci sent the puck in front to an unchecked Chara, who blasted home his fourth of the season.

Edmonton had a late power play in the overtime session, but couldn't get a flurry of shots past Rask, sending the game to the shootout.

"We got a point out of it, but I think we have to realize that if we keep playing like this, it's just a matter of time before we're going to burn ourselves," Chara said.

Both teams return to the ice on Friday as the Bruins travel to Calgary and the Oilers host the Dallas Stars.

Notes: It was the first of two meetings between the two teams this season, with the rematch going in Boston on Dec. 14… The Oilers continue to have their problems on the injury front, absent forwards Connor McDavid (collarbone), Rob Klinkhammer (leg), Nail Yakupov (ankle) and Benoit Pouliot (lower body)… Out for the Bruins were Chris Kelly (leg), David Pastrnak (foot) and defenceman Kevan Miller, who is reportedly close to returning from a concussion.