The Edmonton Oilers laid an egg last night falling 8-1 to the Vancouver Canucks in their season opener.
Leon Draisaitl scored the Oilers lone goal of the game; however, the game was already gone at that point. The Canucks had already scored four goals before the Oilers found the net. Brock Boeser had himself a night for the Canucks scoring four goals. Conor Garland, Elias Peterson, JT Miller and Dakota Joshua got in on the action too with their first goals of the season.
Additonally, after a great pre-season, Jack Campbell was pulled. The decision came after Campbell allowed four goals on 16 shots, but was it really his fault? Stuart Skinner did not come in and shut the door either allowing four goals too.
So what happened? There are plenty of questions to be asked about what happened last night, including should the absences of Mattias Ekholm be this noticalble? Is the goaltending good enough? Where was the with ethic from everyone? Tyler Yaremchuk and Liam Horrobin will break it all done on Oilersnation Everyday live at noon. If you want to participate in the conversation, head over to the Oilersnation YouTube channel, hit subscribe, and then drop your message in the Century Mile Racetrack and Casino live chat.
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18 Comments
A travesty happened.
It’s the first game. Calm down people. They will bounce back. No need to add more media pressure. Write the game off and move on.
I hope this shuts up all those saying we are wining the cup this year!…that’s ridiculous and always has been ….we are very far away with this defense and goaltending!…Bouchard was totally exposed last night and this new system of woodys he can shove you know where…I like the goal scoring and we won a lot of games doing just that …this defensive system just will not work with these type of players and if we go down five or six games then it might get changed…Dave Manson is clearly not a good defensive coach!
Woodcroft's moronic new system. Wake up people
"This is our year"
I love hearing how great Evander Kane is all summer long.
The guy is a bum. There is only one reason this guy keeps getting chances.
Diversity l o l
The thing really bothers me is how Ken Holland managed the cap/roster. Foegle and Kulak are not worth 2.75.
By not having enough cap to keep the players that EARNED a spot in camp is ridiculous. So instead we saw a team that had nothing to lose, as they know they cant even be sat the next game.
Why do other teams find a way to improve in the offseason under the same cap? Yet Holland actually let his team get worse? He brought in a few players that could compete for jobs but never really had any open positions. Ive seen enough of Foegle!
Last thing, i dont know a single fan that actually thought Nurse and Bouchard pairing was a good idea. It was bad against preseason rosters. Last night even worse.
What a wake up call
one of the worst games, we've seen them play ?
Uhm, nope, i remember several games vs really crap teams like Detroit / Buffalo last season
1:8 is brutal, but that was not a 1:8 eye-test wise and while the oilers can overcome 1:5. a 1:6 would have been a stretch.
Good thing is, we weren'T goalied even with 8 goals against.
not expect improvement by Vancouver?
keep pulling team together
McDavid is pissed! He's going to score a hatrick and 3 assist next game.
…and if they lose again on Saturday?
The coach is to blame too
Idk what's worse the audio in the beginning or the Oilers effort last night
We still have Calgary flames
We got Nursed! Out of position on the second goal, out of position on the third, a nice screen on the fifth and I’m almost positive there’s more but turned it off.
No skill involved in the 1st goal? Are you kidding? That pass from Pettersson was filthy