Edmontonian
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Another high scoring affair as the Oilers take this one 7-4. I thought this was one of our more complete games, we battled hard all 60 minutes and played our best hockey in the 1st. We went 2/6 on the PP (although the 6th PP was awarded in the dying seconds), however what was considered a weak Nashville Predators PP goes 2/2 as our PK continues to struggle. The game became very physical after the Oilers took a 5-1 lead however we were able to hang with a hard hitting team like Nashville once again showing we are able to adapt to any play style that gets us the win. We improve to 5-0 when scoring first with our 5th straight win and are now 7-3 on the season.
As for individual performances there were a lot of good ones but I'm just going to go with the most prominent. Leon Draisaitl I have no idea what the Nashville Predators did to this man but he torches them again with 5 points, he now has 25 points in his last 9 games against Nashville. McDavid adds 2 goals and 2 assists to stretch his lead in goals and points, Evander Kane gets his 5th career hatty. On the down side is Jack Campbell again, in fairness to him almost no goalie would save 2 of the 4 goals but he is just shaky. Awful rebound control, on the first Nashville goal he just let the puck dribble right in front of him off his pad, it is the job of the defence to be in position but its also the job of the goalie to be aware of where to direct the puck. He was also too deep in his net on the 4th Nashville goal as the same high slot deflection beat him easily twice. We're still waiting for him to settle in but at the moment Skinner is the much better goaltender, I think with Skinner in net Nashville only scores 2 tonight.
Oilers go up against another red hot team the New Jersey Devils Thursday night at home.
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As for individual performances there were a lot of good ones but I'm just going to go with the most prominent. Leon Draisaitl I have no idea what the Nashville Predators did to this man but he torches them again with 5 points, he now has 25 points in his last 9 games against Nashville. McDavid adds 2 goals and 2 assists to stretch his lead in goals and points, Evander Kane gets his 5th career hatty. On the down side is Jack Campbell again, in fairness to him almost no goalie would save 2 of the 4 goals but he is just shaky. Awful rebound control, on the first Nashville goal he just let the puck dribble right in front of him off his pad, it is the job of the defence to be in position but its also the job of the goalie to be aware of where to direct the puck. He was also too deep in his net on the 4th Nashville goal as the same high slot deflection beat him easily twice. We're still waiting for him to settle in but at the moment Skinner is the much better goaltender, I think with Skinner in net Nashville only scores 2 tonight.
Oilers go up against another red hot team the New Jersey Devils Thursday night at home.
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