EDMONTON — If you’re dissecting the Edmonton Oilers overall game, you can always find a hole or two. No different than any other team, there are good nights, bad nights, and a bunch that fall somewhere in between.

In the end, the record says more than any expert ever could, and at 9-2-2 and coming off a 3-1-1 homestand, there are a lot of other teams that would love to have the issues that Edmonton has right now.

With the plane gassed up for a three-game road trip through the New York area starting Saturday, the standings say Edmonton has the second most points in the National Hockey League through this opening month.

Complain if you must, but a .769 points percentage under a new coach off the start of the season ain’t chopped liver, no matter how much you might want to nitpick.

Wednesday’s 4-0 win over Calgary looked very much like a contender versus a rebuild. At least, no one who watched that game would mistake one team for the other.

“We just didn’t like the Toronto game (on this homestand). Every other game was OK,” said captain Connor McDavid, whose two assists give him 8-28-36 on the season, and a point in all 13 games so far. “(They had) big wins against some good teams (Minnesota and Carolina) there early — it wasn’t necessarily pretty. I don’t like the Toronto game (7-2 loss), but we were a minute away from winning the other night (4-3 shootout loss to Detroit)…

“So there was lots to like from the homestand. Lots to build on too, as we continue to try and be better day in and day out.”

A Calgary team that had taken three of four games from Edmonton a season ago lugged a four-game winning streak up a snowy Highway 2, on the day winter arrived in Alberta with a snowy, icy hello.

But Edmonton’s greeting was even icier, as they rolled out a defensive blanket that made Oiler goalie Tristan Jarry’s night just this side of easy.

You can’t sneeze at a shutout — nor would that be fair, considering the flak Jarry takes in this town when he lets a couple of goals in — but this was one of those shutouts where Jarry stopped everything you would expect him to stop, and there weren’t many game-savers to be made.

“The big thing tonight is we had a good team game. Everybody was involved,” head coach Mike Babcock said. “Jars, in the second period, had to make some saves. But overall we looked after him good and he didn’t give up anything, so that’s a really good night for him and a good confidence builder for him.”

With Frederik Andersen still injured from the off-season, and Devon Levi questionable even to travel to New York with a suspected groin injury — he won’t play — the Oilers goalie department consists of Jarry and local kid Matt Tomkins, a veteran of just six NHL starts.

Tomkims will likely get one of the back to back games against the Islanders and Rangers this weekend, but Jarry has been true to form this season: He won’t often save a game when the team in front of him isn’t responsible. But if you play a proper team game in front of Jarry, he’ll reward you with commensurate goaltending, the way he did against the Flames.

Meanwhile, for the second straight game Edmonton got scoring from outside their Big 3 of McDavid, Evan Bouchard, and Leon Draisaitl.

Edmonton’s goals came from Mathieu Joseph, Mattias Ekholm, Alex Formenton and Kasperi Kapanen. McDavid played a season-low 18:50, while Draisaitl (19:06) and Bouchard (22:12) also came in well under their seasonal averages.

The Oilers are slowly finding some depth, starting with young Colton Dach, who was a menace against the Flames on Wednesday.

“I thought Dacher played really well tonight. He was a huge factor,” Babcock said. “He was in front of the net on the second goal, he was heavy, he was physical, he spent time in the O-zone… He gives us another dimension and … if you can have another (Zach) Hyman or (Vasily) Podkolzin that makes us a way better team. He’s trying to become that.”

The Battle of Alberta has tamed over the years, with one lonely middleweight scrap between Ty Emberson and Brennan Othmann on the scorecard Wednesday. We wonder however, how Dach could run Flames red-hot goalie Devin Cooley right out of the game in Period 1, and not get so much as breathed on for the rest of the night.

Cooley had firmly taken over the No. 1 job from incumbent Dustin Wolf, and took heavy contact from Dach late in Period 1. Wolf was in the Calgary net to open Period 2, and took another run from Dach early in the third.

“I mean, I hate going out for the second period and seeing him not lead their team out,” Dach said. “I’m just trying to take it to the net and create a chance. But really unfortunate that he got hurt.”

And the Flames response, or lack thereof?

“I’m going to keep that on the ice. But yeah, they came and talked.”

That is the 24th shutout of Jarry’s career, 14th among active goalies … More McDavid records: With the assist on Joseph’s goal, McDavid now holds a 13-game assist streak to start the season. That passes Sebastion Aho (2018-19), Ken Linesman (1985-86) and Wayne Gretzky (1982-83) for the longest in NHL history to open a season … McDavid reached the 35-point mark in 13 games, tying him with Joe Malone (1917-18) and Gretzky (1986-87) for the fourth fewest games to reach 35 points in a season. Only Mario Lemieux has done this in fewer games — 11 games in (1988-89) and 12 games (1992-93) and (1995-96).