Oilers Lay Egg on Easter Weekend But Ready If They Meet Vegas Again
· Yahoo Sports
It felt inevitable that the Edmonton Oilers' run of solid wins would, sooner or later, come to an end.
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With a prime opportunity to create some separation from the Vegas Golden Knights in the standings—and with the Anaheim Ducks falling to the Calgary Flames—the hope was that the Edmonton Oilers wouldn’t stumble on Easter weekend.
Instead, they laid an egg.
The Golden Knights handed Edmonton a 5–1 loss in a game head coach Kris Knoblauch said was largely lost off the rush.
The Oilers understood the assignment. Trent Frederic asked, "I mean, they could have been, what, a five-point difference? Now it's probably what, one? Is that right?. So, yeah, pretty big."
Despite understanding the stakes, Knoblauch called the team merely adequate. "... the story of the way we lost it was off the rush, giving up chances off the rush, whether it was a bad pinch, forwards not coming back... all four of their goals, and pretty much most of their chances off that," he said.