Somewhere along the way in this, the worst six-game homestand in club history, luck found the Edmonton Oilers. And on this night at least, they made the most of what the Hockey Gods gave them. (SportsnetSpec)
Stuart Skinner did what a goalie is supposed to do: He gave his team a chance to survive a rocky start. A chance for the mistakes to be forgotten about, and still be in the contest when the things turned their way a few minutes later.
“The start is huge for everybody on this hockey team,” said Skinner, who is well aware that his team hasn’t opened the scoring in a game for two weeks. “It was nice to get a couple saves in right away. It gave us some momentum and we just took over from there. It was a lot of fun tonight.”found himself on a line with Ryan and Zack Kassian and decided to play like the guy who had six pre-season goals at training camp last fall.
Depth scoring has been a very sore spot — the Oilers recently went 10 games without a goal from their third or fourth lines — so to win a game 5-2 where and Leon Draisaitl only combined for three assists is major news here in Oil Country. “It is a huge confidence builder, not only for the bottom-six, but for the top-six as well,” Ryan said. “I think my line in particular has … started to come across some confidence. We’re playing well and playing in the offensive zone. We were not getting scored on and playing well defensively.Yeah, scoring would be nice. That was Ryan’s first point in 23 games.
Depth scoring like that is why Edmonton has become known as a two-man team. Until they disprove that label, that’s what they’re always going to be.Let the trumpets sound.
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