{"id":915504,"date":"2026-09-30T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915504\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:22:08","slug":"mike-babcock-edmonton-oilers-have-serious-work-to-do-after-allowing-six-goals-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915504\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Babcock: Edmonton Oilers have \u2018serious work to do\u2019 after allowing six goals in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edmonton Oilers<\/a> head coach Mike Babcock believes Tuesday\u2019s opening-night loss to the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> showed his team has \u201cserious work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oilers suffered a 6-5 overtime defeat to the Canucks, grabbing a point after trailing 5-2, having allowed three goals in the span of just four minutes early in the third period. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think for one second it was going to be easy,\u201d Babcock said. \u201cTonight was an indication that we have serious work to do, and so we\u2019re just going to have a look at it tomorrow and show the players and clear it up.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut playing like that – we started fine – but playing like that and getting away from what we\u2019re supposed to do is unacceptable for us, so we have to set a better standard for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edmonton outshot the Canucks 37-23 on the night and outhit their opponents 38-13. <\/p>\n

Oilers netminder Tristan Jarry<\/a> struggled as the team committed multiple defensive lapses in front of him, and took share of the blame after the loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for myself I have to be better in those aspects, too,\u201d Jarry said. \u201cJust talking about my game, I need one or two of those. I think that\u2019s the game changer there and that puts us in a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n

How concerned should Oilers be with Jarry’s performance? Tristan Jarry allowed six goals on 23 shots in the Oilers overtime loss to the Canucks. How concerned should Edmonton be with their goaltending? Craig Button joins Jay Onrait to discuss. <\/p>\n

Oilers defenceman Evan Bouchard<\/a> had a dream opener offensively with a hat trick and five points, but he lamented the struggles in Edmonton\u2019s own end.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can tell it was our first regular-season game,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cWe have to be a lot more detailed than that. Giving up odd-man rushes, giving up five or six (goals), isn\u2019t going to cut it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s just about buying in, kind of less thinking,\u201d Babcock said of what needs to change. \u201cObviously, it is new and you\u2019re going to have some hiccups, but there\u2019s little things that aren\u2019t the system\u2019s fault. Whether it was a bad pinch where you\u2019re giving up odd-man rushes like we did tonight, it\u2019s not going to go well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edmonton will have a chance a redemption as the team plays the Canucks on the road Thursday, then return home to host the Seattle Kraken<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers head coach Mike Babcock believes Tuesday\u2019s opening-night loss to the Vancouver Canucks showed his team has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,79560,82],"class_list":["post-915504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915504","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=915504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}