Edmonton Oilers eat a slice of humble pie losing 5-3 to overpowering Minnesota Wild

[@Ggcsoccer-f4o]

It's absolutely a phenomenon we lose our first game back home after a road trip. The wild have had our number for years. Thank God we don't have as of late Sunday evening games as we lose those games no matter who we play. It's almost a guarantee! GO OILERS GO!

[@wainber1]

This Oiler team is broken in so many ways, and one of them is the lack of defensive awareness up and down the roster.

[@elizabethmarkoe7776]

What are the owners smoking They let Holloway go but got Jeff Skinner? We were looking more hopeful preseason but then the owners got rid of Producers on the ice One Skinner on Oilers my Goalie Stu

[@epiphany519]

Game 21. Long post follows with base game statistics including some for the Minnesota Wild. Read, don't read, up to you. These are BASE stats not detailed ones (bit expanded). My comments and observations at the end. Statistics for Minnesota Wild at Edmonton Oilers November 21st, 2024 Edmonton Oilers: Draisaitl 1 Goal Perry 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist J Skinner 1 Goal McDavid 1 Primary Assist Henrique 1 Secondary Assist Skinner 21 Saves on 26 Shots = .808 Save %age Minnesota Wild: McCarron 1 Goal Smith 1 Goal Josi 1 Primary Assist L'Heureux 1 Primary Assist Lauzon 1 Secondary Assist Fleury 29 Saves on 32 Shots = 0.906 Save %age Wild Oilers Shots on Goal 26 32 Hits 25 18 Faceoffs Won 27 36 PP 0/1 0/2 Penalty Mins 9 7 Giveaways 15 (14 per NST) 19 (15 per NST) Takeaways 3 2 Blocked Shots 26 (23 per NST) 13 (12 per NST) 3 Stars: Three Stars: Foligno (1G, 1A), Hartman (2A), Gaudreau (2G, 1A) Player TOI PP TOI PK TOI SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks Giveaways Takeaways Ekholm 26:46 1:37 0:49 4 -1 0 1 1 5 0 Bouchard 24:22 2:15 0:00 3 0 0 0 2 4 2 Kulak 20:57 1:16 1:09 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Emberson 16:34 0:07 0:51 2 -1 0 0 2 0 0 Stecher 14:53 0:00 0:00 2 -1 0 0 1 0 0 J Brown 13:41 0:00 1:10 1 -1 0 3 1 0 0 McDavid 24:40 2:40 0:00 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 Draisaitl 23:28 2:46 0:00 4 -1 0 0 1 0 0 Nuge 18:17 2:45 0:49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Perry 15:45 2:48 0:00 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 Podkolzin 15:31 1:27 0:00 3 -1 2 1 0 1 0 Henrique 14:55 1:16 0:55 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 C Brown 14:35 1:13 1:10 1 -1 0 0 0 1 0 J Skinner 14:10 1:12 0:00 2 -1 0 2 2 0 0 Kapanen 12:10 0:00 0:00 1 -1 0 4 0 0 0 Janmark 12:04 0:00 1:04 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 Ryan 10:06 0:00 0:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Caggiula 7:34 0:00 0:00 1 0 5 3 0 0 0 Oilers Faceoff Breakdown: Won Lost Percent Draisaitl 11 6 64.7 Ryan 8 6 57.1 Nuge 7 5 58.3 McDavid 6 6 50.0 Henrique 3 3 50.0 Perry 1 0 100.0 Janmark 0 1 0.00 Wild's Faceoff Breakdown: Won Lost Percent Eriksson Ek 14 15 48.3 Rossi 4 5 44.4 Khusnutdinov 3 5 37.5 Hartman 3 6 33.3 Gaudreau 3 3 50.0 Lauko 0 1 0.00 Kaprizov 0 1 0.00 Surgery still postponed so here are some stats. Again, I can't watch the games. What follows is my opinion. So the first goal 27 seconds in to the game was a weird one by Draisaitl. Draisaitl shot it from his own blue line and it took a funny hop off of 2 sticks and in. It's times like that I can see a Goalie looking up and asking God if he owes him money or something. This was a situation where Edmonton had issues clearing and eventually Minnesota got it in. The mismatch in blocks tells me there needs to be another round of posterior whoopin' to get it into the heads of ALL players that a stick can block a shot so get them in the lanes and help your goalie out. Ekholm with 5 giveaways and Bouch with 4 were mostly due to dump and chase but still it's a lot. Oilers had more shots (which is pretty normal now), won quite a few more faceoffs, fewer penalty minutes, fewer hits, half the blocked shots, more giveaways, 1 less takeaway and the Wild are not known as a high scoring team yet they got 5 and the Oilers only got 3. I know we don't tend to do well against them but still it's like some things were half hearted. They also finally lost a game that had a fight. Take care all.

[@brentdraper1713]

I miss Kassian beating on Tkachuk. I would love to see that a few dozen more times.

[@kwaty]

Those endless regroups that lead to terrible breakout passes are beyond frustrating. They never attack with speed. They don’t play quick. They have no connectivity. It’s almost like a pick up team that hasn’t played with each other. It’s as if 30% of the team is new, that they got slower, older & the vets seem unmotivated. Hmm wonder what’s wrong here. Got beat by a much superior team today!

[@wainber1]

The Oilers would end up scoring three goals but that game was ugly on goals allowed and rough stuff.

[@dumbo753]

that's what i noticed. a bunch of individual guys not knowing what anyone else is going to do.

[@jalden1579]

I'm an Oilers fan and that wasn't humble pie, the Minnesota Wild have had the Oilers number for most of the last 10 games played. There are just some teams that certain teams can't figure out, Minnesota is one of these teams for the Oilers.