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The Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers conclude a three game regular season series this afternoon with a 1:00 ct face off at MTS Centre. Justin Peters . You can catch all of the action live on TSN Radio 1290. The Jets were 5-4 winners on October 1, while the Oilers took a 6-2 decision on December 23. Taylor Hall leads the Oilers with one goal and three assists in those games, while Dustin Byfuglien tops the Jets with four assists. Michael Frolik has a pair of goals. Edmontons power play has scored four goals on 13 attempts in those two games, good for a mark of 31 per cent efficiency. The Jets(21-23-5) sit seventh in the Central Division with 47 points and trail the Vancouver Canucks and Minnesota Wild by 10 points for a Western Conference Wild Card playoff spot. Ondrej Pavelec (13-19-4, 3.05, .899) is expected to start his fifth-consecutive game in goal. He has won his last two starts allowing just three goals against. Jets Projected Lines: Forwards: Ladd-Little-Frolik Thorburn-Scheifele-Wheeler Setoguchi-Jokinen-Byfuglien Wright-ODell-Peluso Defence: Bogosian-Enstrom Stuart-Trouba Pardy-Ellerby Today marks Dustin Byfugliens 500th NHL game. He is on a four-game point streak with two goals and four assists.Bryan Little is on a three-game point streak, tallying two goals and three assists, while Olli Jokinen has scored in back-to-back games. The Oilers(15-30-5) also sit seventh in their Pacific Division with 35 points. They are on a three-game losing skid after dropping a 4-1 decision in Minnesota to the Wild on Thursday night. Edmonton is winless in their last six road games (0-5-1.) Ilya Bryzgalov (3-7-2, 3.27, .902) will start in goal. Oilers Projected Lines: Forwards: Hall-Nugent Hopkins-Eberle Perron-Gagner-Jones Smyth-Gordon-Hendricks Gazdic-Arcobello-Joensuu Defence: Ference-J. Schultz N. Schultz-Belov Petry-Marincin In four games lifetime against the Thrashers/Jets, Taylor Hall has five goals and four assists for nine points. Following todays game, the Jets prepare for a two-game road trip to California which starts Tuesday in Anaheim against the high-flying Ducks. John Carlson . They had already blown a double-digit lead, fans were hitting the exits, and a long seven-game road trip waited at the end. John Carlson Capitals Jersey . - Alex Gordon went from a bust to busting the bank.VAL DISERE, France - World Cup leader Tina Wierather of Liechtenstein protected her lead from the first run to win the first giant slalom race of her career on Sunday, her second victory of the season and third of her fast-improving career. "Today was a very great day for me. It was always my dream to be good in GS," Wierather said. "I took quite a long time to get there. It feels awesome to have my first win (in GS)." Wierather leads overall with 595 points from Lara Gut (568), who finished second, and Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany (535). "Its cool to have the chance to fight for it. Its the first time Ive been so consistent. But its only December so Im not thinking about that," Wierather said. "Its just that Ive been healthy for some years now and I could improve a little bit every summer. I feel very strong and feel ready for more than just downhill, but also super-G and GS." Julia Mancuso of the United States did not finish the second run. After winning a super-G race at St. Moritz last weekend, the 24-year-old Wierather secured her third career win and 13th podium finish with an overall time of 2 minutes, 24.10 seconds. "Its a process of many years. I tried to improve my technique, my physical performance. Its like a big puzzle and at the moment it looks like it is working," Wierather said. "I used to play tennis until I was 12. I never liked this battle. In skiing its you against the hill and you see the time. You just fight the hill and not the other girls. Thats what I like about ski racing." Wierather was 0.75 seconds clear of Gut, who was third after the first run, and 0.95 ahead of Swedens Maria Pietilae-Holmner, who had been second. Italian Federica Brignone was fourth, ahead of the former World Cup winner Hoefl-Riesch. Gut has four World Cup wins this season, and five podiums, but had failed to finish the last two GS races. "Its always fun to be on the podium and to make points," the 22-year-old said. "But I was skiing good even in Beaver Creek and St. Moritz before going off course." Pietilae-Holmner, the GS runner-up at the 2007 worlds, securedd her first World Cup podium in GS. Dale Hunter Authentic Jersey. "Its a perfect Christmas present," the 27-year-old said. "I had two seasons with both knee injury and shoulder injury. Im back without injury so I can put the energy in the right things." World slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin was eighth, improving from her 12th-place finish in slalom at Courchevel on Tuesday. The previous weekend, the 18-year-old had failed to finish another GS in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz. "I was really tired coming from the U.S. to here (Europe). I had to rethink how I was doing things, getting my recoveries and stuff," Shiffrin said. "Before this race I actually got some rest and I felt a lot better today, which means that I just have to ski faster. Im happy with the top 10." She thought that she could have done better, however, with more preparation. "I think the first run was a little bit straighter than I thought it would be from looking at it on inspection. Its a lesson for next time," she said. "I have to be able to see its a little straighter so I can go, because some of the other girls hammered it and they were really fast, and thats where I lost some time." Defending overall champion Tina Maze, who was second in Saturdays downhill, improved in her second run to finish 11th. The Slovenian is still looking for her first win of the season and says she feels mentally tired. "Maybe its the result of the progam I have. Since St. Moritz every day Im in ski boots, skiing and training and its tough to be in shape every day and to concentrate 100 per cent," she said. "I really need two days break now, just to relax a little bit. I think its pretty tiring when youre going up and down and fighting every day to be positive." The 30-year-old Maze looked set for a competitive time but almost fell on her first run. "I was skiing really good so Im excited about my skiing, but with that mistake it was just too hard to come in front and be relaxed in the second run," she said. "I was attacking too much and on this snow when you push too much its not a good idea." ' ' '