Given how the Habs were rolling early, I\u2019ll be honest, I didn\u2019t think Edmonton had the juice to crawl back once they blew that two-goal lead. Most teams would have folded after a meltdown like that, and honestly, it wouldn\u2019t have been surprising if they did. But credit where it\u2019s due, the Oilers didn\u2019t quit. They dug in, cranked up the urgency, started shooting, and turned a disaster into a highlight reel comeback win. It wasn\u2019t pretty, it wasn\u2019t anything you\u2019d want to replicate, but despite the stress, it was entertaining as hell. And on a night when Montreal fans packed Rogers Place, having the Oilers come back to win like that felt like a gift. I don\u2019t ask for much this early in the season, but stealing two points while sending Habs fans home heartbroken was exactly what the doctor ordered.<\/p>\n
SO LONG, HABS FANS<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard not to be annoyed when the Montreal Canadiens roll into town, you know? Let\u2019s just say that seeing all that red in the crowd and hearing the \u201cole, oles\u201d at Rogers Place isn\u2019t exactly my favourite. As much as I get the love for an Original Six team, and it\u2019s the same when the Leafs are here, that doesn\u2019t make me want all of their fans to go home sad any less. In fact, I want the Oilers to ruin a night when those fans probably overspent on tickets and\/or are pretending they\u2019re not actually Oilers fans in a Habs jersey because they grew up reading The Hockey Sweater. The problem, of course, is that the Habs are good. They\u2019re young, skilled, and playing a brand of hockey built to punish mistakes, and as we all know, the Oilers aren\u2019t exactly keeping it tight these days.<\/p>\n
What I didn\u2019t expect, however, was that my dream of the Oilers ruining Habs fans\u2019 night would happen in such dramatic fashion. Never in my wildest dreams did I think the Oilers would build a lead they didn\u2019t really deserve, blow that same lead in the span of 1:52, give up four straight goals, and still come roaring back for a 6\u20135 comeback win. That might have been one of the craziest finishes I\u2019ve ever seen. Nothing about that game made sense, but what I can say for certain is that it fills my heart with joy knowing everyone in a Montreal jersey just had their heart ripped out in spectacular fashion. Watching the Canadiens lose like that had to be more painful than anything I could have cooked up, and for that, I thank the Hockey Gords for answering my prayers with such creativity.<\/p>\n
DAVID TOM\u00c1\u0160EK\u2019S FIRST NHL GOALDavid Tom\u00e1\u0161ek<\/a>\u00a0has had roughly a thousand chances to score so far this season, and it was kind of the Hockey Gords to finally reward him, even if his first NHL goal<\/a> came off a friendly bounce. He didn\u2019t even know he was the one who scored, but it was another reminder that a shooter\u2019s mentality is a thing that actually works, and they might even like it. It wasn\u2019t one of his many point-blank opportunities that got him on the board, just a couple of bounces that beat Sam Montembeault before he could adjust. The point? Good things happen when you shoot the puck. Call it luck or whatever you want, but I sure wish the rest of the team were as willing to fire pucks through traffic. Sometimes it works out.For a guy coming off a scoring title in the Swedish league last year, it had to feel good to finally get something on the scoresheet<\/a>, even if the goal was anything but pretty. There are a few guys gripping the stick a little tightly right now, and Tom\u00e1\u0161ek was definitely among them. While no one expects him to match the 24 goals he scored in 47 games last year with F\u00e4rjestad BK Karlstad, the Oilers need him to chip in from time to time if he\u2019s going to keep his spot in the lineup<\/a>. So far, he\u2019s done a solid job of creating looks for himself, but the goals haven\u2019t followed. Maybe getting a lucky one can spark some confidence. The instincts are clearly there, and now we\u2019ll have to wait and see how much finish he has at this level. Can a fortunate bounce be the spark he needed? We\u2019ll see.PRESENTED BY VIVID SEATS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experience Oilers hockey, making Habs fans sad, and David Tom\u00e1\u0161ek\u2019s first NHL goal After snapping their three-game losing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-237561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237561","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=237561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}