The Oilers got off to the start they wanted this year — they won their first five games and hadn’t lost more than two in a row until this past Thursday when they lost 6-5 to Minnesota to drop them to 0-2-1 in their last three. The Pacific Division looks like it’ll be a bit of a crapshoot this season, but it doesn’t lack talent, so the Oilers will have to keep losing streaks at bay with both the streaking Calgary Flames and Vegas Golden Knights right on their tail.
The dominance of Edmonton’s two young stars — Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl — goes back multiple seasons now, but you still have to marvel at just how dominant they are and how much ice time the Oilers coaching staff, rightfully, loads them up with.