updated 2:09 a.m. ET Feb. 5, 2012

EDMONTON, Alberta - Sam Gagner showed the top team in the NHL that his breakout game was no fluke.

Gagner had two goals and an assist, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored the shootout winner as the Edmonton Oilers beat the league-leading Detroit Red Wings 5-4 on Saturday night.

Gagner followed up on his eight-point game in Edmonton's 8-4 win over Chicago. He also scored in the shootout.

"It's a big win for us," Gagner said. "Especially the way we did it, coming back at the end. I knew I wasn't going to get another eight-point night. But even after the points kept coming our line was still creating.

"I'm just feeling way better about how I am playing. I want the puck. I want to be the guy."

The Oilers blew a 3-1 lead in the third period but sent it to overtime when Jordan Eberle scored with 39 seconds left.

Eberle ended up with a pair of goals for the Oilers, who have won three in a row and are 4-0-1 in their last five games.

"We were good for two periods and then sat around and watched them play in the third," Oilers coach Tom Renney said. "That's very dangerous against one of the best teams in the league. But we collected ourselves and played more intelligent and showed some character."

Todd Bertuzzi had a pair of goals, and Valtteri Filppula and Drew Miller also scored for the Red Wings, who snapped a two-game winning streak and lost for only the second time in 11 games.

Detroit almost got on the board first before the game was 2 minutes old. Darren Helm had a short-handed breakaway, but Oilers starter Devan Dubnyk was able to come up with a clutch save.

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The Oilers made good on the power play a minute later as Gagner knocked the rebound of Ryan Whitney's shot past Red Wings goalie Ty Conklin.

"Sam has been a lot of fun to watch," Nugent-Hopkins said. "I'm really happy for him. It was a big character win for us."

Gagner got his second point of the night just before the 6-minute mark of the first. He put the puck on net, and it slipped beneath Conklin and went to Eberle, who scored his 21st of the seasons.

Edmonton retained the lead after killing off a two-man disadvantage. Corey Potter was given a double-minor for coming to the aid of teammate Ales Hemsky after he was crushed along the boards by Niklas Kronwall. An addition penalty to Edmonton's Ladislav Smid left the team down two players for a full 2 minutes.

Gagner had a direct result on two more goals to close out the first period, one by each team.

With 37 seconds to play, Gagner coughed up the puck to Filppula in his own zone on the power play. Filppula fanned on his shot but it hit Whitney's and trickled into the Oiler net, just out of the reach of a diving Dubnyk, for the short-handed goal.

Gagner redeemed himself with less than a second left in the period on the same power play as he tipped in a Ryan Smyth shot for his second of the game. It was the 11th consecutive Edmonton goal that Gagner got a point on, all within a three-period span going back to the second period of the win over Chicago.

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