There are losses. And then there are ugly losses.
The 4-2 Edmonton Oilers loss to the Dallas Stars, Tuesday night, falls into the latter variety. It’s a real shame that Connor McDavid scored his first NHL goal in a game like that.
Sigh.
9 Things:
9. All of that progress and structure that we saw in the Edmonton Oilers game in the first two games of the regular season evaporated Tuesday night. The club played a defensive game more reminiscent of what we saw last night, which is (needless to say) not good.