The Edmonton Oilers were not only unable to bring a winning streak with them on their upcoming road trip, but they are missing two key players as well. The Oilers open a five-game swing on Tuesday night against the Philadelphia Flyers without forward Taylor Hall and defenseman Andrew Ference. Both players were lost in Saturdays 3-2 setback to the Vancouver Canucks. Hall suffered a sprained MCL in his knee after taking a hit while driving the net and crashing into the goal post. He is expected to miss 2-to-4 weeks. Ference, meanwhile, was suspended for three games due to a check he delivered to the head of Canucks forward Zack Kassian. He will miss games in Philadelphia, Boston and Buffalo before being eligible to return on Sunday against the New York Rangers. While the Oilers will only need to fill Ferences void for a few games, they will need a number of offensive players to step up for the foreseeable future as Hall has posted six goals and 10 points in 11 games this season. You have to fill that by committee. One guy cant pick up the slack, its got to be all of us. I think we did pretty well (against Vancouver). We kept the pace going, Edmontons Jordan Eberle told his clubs website. We feel a lot more comfortable, for sure. When a guy goes down like that you get an opportunity to play a little bit more. Eberle and David Perron scored versus the Canucks, who got the winning goal shorthanded when Derek Dorsett picked off a bad clearing attempt by goaltender Ben Scrivens before scoring at 4:05 of the third period. Im certainly not gonna stand here and crucify the guy, Oilers coach Dallas Eakins said of the play. Its easy to stand back and point fingers, but that kid kept us in the game at key points. Hell bounce back. Scrivens ended with 27 saves as the Oilers finished a seven-game homestand with a second straight loss. They had won four in a row before the defeats. The Flyers also have followed up a winning streak with consecutive setbacks, claiming three victories in a row prior to defeats against Tampa Bay and Florida. They were bested 2-1 by the Panthers on Saturday. Vincent Lecavalier prevented a shutout loss when he scored in the final seconds of the contest in his return from a seven-game absence caused by a left ankle injury, while Steve Mason yielded both goals on 30 shots faced. Im just trying to find some positives in a negative situation, said Mason, who is 0-4-1 on the season. I thought I played a pretty good game, but it could have been better. The Flyers will play four straight at home and are expected to debut defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo. Philadelphia signed the veteran to help out a banged-up blue line that is without Braydon Coburn and Andrew MacDonald due to lower-body injuries. Colaiacovo, who was signed on Oct. 30, has not played an NHL game since April 13 with the St. Louis Blues. I feel great. 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She has risen to No. 32 in the world rankings and will likely be seeded at the first Grand Slam event of the 2014 season. OAKLAND, Calif. -- Felix Hernandez has never felt better at the beginning of a season. That certainly bodes well for the former Cy Young Award winner. Hernandez took a shutout into the ninth inning, Dustin Ackley and Abraham Almonte hit home runs and the Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 3-1 Saturday. Hernandez (2-0) retired the first 11 batters on the way to his 16th career win over the Athletics, his most against any team. Hernandez walked one and struck out eight while allowing a run on six hits over 8 1/3 innings. "My pitches were looking good all day long," Hernandez said. "I could throw them all for strikes. I felt strong and my pitches were there. Physically I feel great and I have all my pitches." Fernando Rodney, who struggled during spring training, got the final two outs to record his first save with the Mariners. Robinson Cano had two hits. "Im just working on locating my fastball in spring," Rodney said. "It was real good today; its the season." Dan Straily (0-1) allowed three runs on six hits over his six innings. He walked one and struck out seven. "It was disappointing," Straily said. "A two-seamer comes back over the plate and I yanked one. I did a good job of executing the game plan minus those two pitches." Straily carried a shutout into the fifth inning before Ackleys towering two-run shot gave the Mariners a 2-0 lead. With two outs, Almonte drove Strailys 1-0 pitch even deeper into the right field bleachers. "After seeing him a couple of times you get used to what hes got and can throw out better at bats," Ackley said. "There was a runner on third, maybe hes thinking about him, and gives me a pitch to hit." The way Hernandez was pitching, the run support was more than enough. "Id say for seven innings that might be the best weve seen him," As manager Bob Melvin saaid.dddddddddddd "It seemed like his fastball had a little extra hop and he mixed in his breaking stuff well." Jed Lowrie, who hit a home run leading off the ninth, broke up Hernandezs no-hit bid with a two-out single in the fourth. Brandon Moss, who had two hits, followed with a bloop double but Hernandez struck out Yoenis Cespedes on three pitches. "I saw the same guy I saw last week," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "Hes pretty good. Ill take that every time." Coco Crisp tripled with one out in the sixth but was stranded there when Josh Donaldson struck out and Lowrie popped out. Hernandez improved his record to 67-3 when going at least seven innings and allowing three or fewer runs. "When we can score first it puts pressure on the other team and makes Felix even better," Ackley said. "If we got one run, I thought it would be enough the way he was pitching." The Mariners pitching staff extended their club record season-opening streak to allowing three or fewer runs to five. Hernandez, who turns 28 on Tuesday, ranks fourth on the all-time list with 1,722 strikeouts before the age of 28 behind Sam McDowell, Bert Blyleven and Walter Johnson. NOTES: RHP Sonny Gray (0-0, 0.00) will start Sundays series finale against the Mariners. Hes working on a 13-inning scoreless streak dating to last year after pitching six innings in the season opener. . Erasmo Ramirez (1-0, 2.57) starts for the Mariners. He gave up two runs on six hits over seven innings in his first start. . Cano is batting .342 (27 for 79) in his last 19 games in Oakland. . The As first four games averaged 3 hours, 29 minutes. . Hernandez is 5-0 in his last 10 games in Oakland. ... Cespedes, who has hit 10 homers against Seattle pitching, hit a ball into the left field bleachers in the ninth that curved foul a pitch before flying out to right. ' ' '