Pathetic powerplay.
Just won't settle for anything less than a highlight reel goal. Have to overpass.
Second chance for them to put the Avs away and they can't do it.
@dstaples The Fan Hockey Ehow talking about they need Cirelli because the PK. If only there was a winger who already plays wing with McDavid and kills penalties!
Zach Hyman and Evan Bouchard were not picked for Team Canada, which is, frankly, a bad joke. Team Canada spebnt Four Nations tournament looking for the right linemate for McDavid and never did find that player. Why not go with the winger who has had more success than anyone with McDavid and was also the best forechecking winger in the 2025 playoffs until he got hurt?
Really encouraging game by the Oiler skaters on the whole. Repeat those games and they win lots of them with some saves.
Felt like it could easily be 5-3 Oiler win with an empty net goal.
@SamAMcKee Fixed it:
For Oilers fans only:
Are you starting to worry that this is more than an annual slow start for the goaltending?
A: Yes, because goaltending has been an issue every start, and the rest of the season and the playoffs.
The Oilers should give it another 20 games with Nurse on defence.
No improvement, make him a winger.
He might actually excel on the wing.
Agree or disagree?
Which Oilers d-man has improved when partnered with Nurse? How is it Nurse's play has crashed four playoff seasons in a row?
Patience at low ebb.
'Brutal play here recently': Oilers insiders with unprecedented criticism of Darnell Nurse edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/…
@DNBsports “Team defence” is an interesting way to say never ever get a save. If the same game is played by both teams and we get a few saves and win 5-3 with an empty better the headline is “Oilers defence bounce back”
The Oilers lose 7-4 in Washington to fall to 2-3 on their seven-game road trip and 9-9-4 on the season. Their last regulation win: Oct. 28 vs. Utah.
Team defence has been a mess for the Oilers most of the season, and it did them in tonight.
@TheCultofHockey@KurtLeavins@edmontonjournal Has anyone ever mentioned over the last 3 years we could use a goalie? Or we going to just use the last 3 years of McDavid saying “there isn’t anything out there at the right cost”? (As many other teams continue to bring in new goalies)
@DNBsports Troy Stecher, returning to the lineup after a four-game absence as a healthy scratch, gets high sticked behind the net. The Panthers make him pay. Carter Verhaeghe sets up Anton Lundell to make it 3-0.
Fixed it
Troy Stecher, returning to the lineup after a four-game absence as a healthy scratch, turns the puck over behind the net. The Panthers make him pay. Carter Verhaeghe sets up Anton Lundell to make it 3-0.
@drshnuckels Heiskanen just came back from injury lol and got 2 points in three games. And is one of the top 5 D in the league. Bouchard is awful defensively, and Oilers fans know that lol. Klingberg is a liability defensively too.