The Day After 67.0: Strong effort wasted as Oilers hope lost point doesn\u2019t \u2018come and haunt us later\u2019<\/p>\n
After building a two-goal lead thanks to goals from Kasperi Kapanen and Connor McDavid, the Blues chipped away at it. First, it was Pius Suter scoring with just seven and a half minutes left in the third, then, with just under four minutes to go, Cam Fowler tied the game up and sent it to overtime.<\/p>\n
While the Oilers dominated the extra frame, Robert Thomas had the last laugh with nine seconds left in overtime. Now, with the Oilers in the midst of battling for their playoff lives, they have to hope that the missed point doesn\u2019t cost them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really a shame,\u201d Kapanen said of the Oilers losing the game. \u201cThroughout the whole game, we were playing pretty well. Teams are going to have their push if we\u2019re leading, and we just need to learn how to play with the lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just have to hope that the one extra point we lost today is not going to come and haunt us later.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you squint, the road trip was still a success for the Oilers. They walked out with five of a possible eight points, despite the fact they were outscored 15-12, thanks in large part to the Stars\u2019 7-2 blowout.<\/p>\n
Their wins were what mattered most, though. They gained ground on the Golden Knights with last Sunday\u2019s win and had a very strong showing against one of the best teams in the league in the Avalanche. The Stars \u2014 maybe because of their new head coach and former Oilers assistant Glen Gulutzan \u2014 have seemingly had Edmonton\u2019s number all year.<\/p>\n
A road trip now turns into a homestand for the Oilers<\/a>. They\u2019ll welcome the Nashville Predators Sunday night, the San Jose Sharks Tuesday night, the Florida Panthers Thursday night and the Tampa Bay Lightning in the late slot on next Saturday\u2019s Hockey Night in Canada.What they said\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cWe defended well at times today. I think in the second period, our offence was getting much better than it was in the first, and this trip has been a positive one. We obviously would have wanted two points today, and the game yesterday wasn\u2019t our best, but certainly better than it has been as of late.\u201d<\/p>\n Kris Knoblauch<\/a> on how St. Louis got back in the game, closing out the road trip\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it could have went much better for us in the first 40 minutes and in the third with a nice lead. They got their goal, and we got a little nervous and backed in a little bit. Obviously, they had a strong push, and it\u2019s unfortunate that it could have been an outstanding road trip getting three out of the four, but losing and only getting one point in the last two games is disappointing for us.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJust tried to make a little move and get a shot off, and it was in a good spot. We\u2019re obviously feeling good. We\u2019re playing confident and we\u2019re really using our strengths. Our \u2018D\u2019 are really skating, they\u2019re joining the rush, they\u2019re creating a lot. They\u2019re beating the first forechecker in and that\u2019s opening up all of us forwards. We\u2019re just clicking right now and really confident, and coming in and winning every game.\u201d<\/p>\n Zach Laing is Oilersnation\u2019s managing editor, and The Nation Network\u2019s news director. He also makes up one-half of the Daily Faceoff DFS Hockey Report<\/a>. He can be followed on X at @zjlaing<\/a>, or reached by email at zach.laing@bettercollective.com.ARTICLE PRESENTED BY bet365<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Day After 67.0: Strong effort wasted as Oilers hope lost point doesn\u2019t \u2018come and haunt us later\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-537272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537272","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=537272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}