{"id":204600,"date":"2025-10-11T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204600\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:58:08","slug":"oilers-find-a-lot-to-learn-following-shootout-loss-to-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204600\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers find \u2018a lot to learn\u2019 following shootout loss to Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary deserves its share of credit for not giving up.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames were counted out last season more often than a punch-drunk boxer but hung around the playoff race until they were eventually eliminated by a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big win; it galvanizes the team,\u201d Flames forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/blake-coleman-8476399\" title=\"Blake Coleman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Coleman<\/a> said. \u201cYou\u2019re down 3-0 and you show it as a group that you\u2019re willing to stick with it and start playing the right way. We\u2019ve shown in the past we can win games coming from behind. A lot of third-period goals. You don\u2019t want to start that way, but our team showed a lot of resilience tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calgary looked overwhelmed early on, giving up a first-period, power-play goal to Nugent-Hopkins on a setup from Draisaitl and McDavid, then going down 2-0 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andrew-mangiapane-8478233\" title=\"Andrew Mangiapane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Mangiapane<\/a> scored with his new team against his former team.<\/p>\n<p>When Draisaitl made it 3-0 on the power play, converting a behind-the-back pass from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/david-tomasek-8485493\" title=\"David Tomasek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Tomasek<\/a> at 8:32 of the second period, it appeared the Oilers would cruise to victory and get off to the good start they longed for the last couple of seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought when we were playing on top of them, when we were playing fast and simple there was a lot of things to like,\u201d Nugent-Hopkins said. \u201cBut obviously the first one, you\u2019d like to close that one out. There\u2019s lots to like but also a lot to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary deserves its share of credit for not giving up. The Flames were counted out last season more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-204600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}