Beating the Boston Bruins Thursday night would have been a good start to a  new tradition for the Edmonton Oilers.

Your water-cooler question this morning with your puck-pundit pals?

Which NHL team do the Bruins own with regard to most current consecutive wins?

Thursday night, the Edmonton Oilers, a franchise with the same number of Stanley Cups in 30 years since 1984 as Boston had in their history from 1923-1984 (5), kept the Back-and-Gold win-streak alive at 13 with a 5-2 win at TD Garden.

A Loui Eriksson goal at 11:04 jumpstarted a furious two-and-a-half minutes with three goals in that span of the third period, erasing a 2-1 Oilers lead. The Bruins power play produced the winner right after by Carl Soderberg at 12:29 to keep the longest such active Bruins’ streak going versus any opponent.

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Dougie Hamilton delivered the insurance tally at 13:38 for a 4-2 lead – just 69 seconds after Soderberg’s tally. Milan Lucic added the empty-netter with seven ticks remaining.

“I can’t say we had their number tonight,” Claude Julien said during his postgame press conference. “Our guys were determined to get back in the game. Some of the reasons for our late goals were they started pushing when we got the lead; started gambling.”

The last time the Bruins lost to Edmonton was the turn of the century: October 17, 2000 in Edmonton.

The last loss in Boston was November 6, 1996.

“They gave us a real tough game tonight,” Julien commented. “We’ve had their number in the past maybe because they’re young and rebuilding. But that certainly wasn’t the case tonight.”

The three-goal differential contributed to another Oilers stat: their worst historic overall goal differential is against Boston.

In the 68th meeting of the two Thursday, Boston holds a decisive margin at 45-17-6-0.

Not so, however when the playoff encounters are extracted.

Speaking of the past, while the Bruins have smoked Edmonton in their regular-season history, the Oilers have vaporized the Black-and-Gold in playoff meetings.

Stanley Cup Final playoffs at that.

Oh yes, the Bruins were demolished by the Gretzky-led — and loaded Oilers — in the 1988 and 1990 Finals by a total of 8-1; a 4-game sweep in ’88 and 5-game-series win in ’90. The total-goal margin is a whoa-is-me 38 to 17.

Thursday night, Tuukka Rask had the task of keeping the Bruins’ current streak intact.

“I just saw that [stat],” he said postgame about the streak. “Eventually, they’re going to beat us. It’s going to happen one of these days.”

But not last night.

See what Rask, Eriksson and Hamilton had to say about the third period comeback and more