After starting the season 1-2, pressure was starting to build up for the Edmonton Oilers. A 6-4 win over the powerful Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday was just what the doctor ordered. (SportsnetSpec)
Pressure in Toronto, where the skin is so thin that the coach can’t even tell the truth without having to backtrack the next day. Pressure in Ottawa, where a Senators team that doesn’t necessarily have to make the playoffs had darned well better hang around the race into March, at least.
Here in Edmonton the skillet was heating up as well, underneath an Oilers team that was 1-2 after a Tuesday loss to Buffalo and facing ateam that — in the eyes of most everyone — is likely a better team than either the Sabres or the Oilers. “Being 2-2 is nothing to write home about, but we’ll take it,” said Connor McDavid, after a fabulously entertaining, back-and-forth, 6-4 Oilers win on Thursday. “We don’t want it to be as scrambly as it has been, but that is hockey in October. There are mistakes made, but you have to find ways to get wins. They count just the same now as they do later in the year.
On the Oilers side, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins jumped up from his role as a third-line centre and played left wing next to Leon Draisaitl and Zach Hyman — a line that produced eight points. Nugent-Hopkins gave his team a four-point night and set up the shorthanded goal that, in a way, was the difference in a game that featured two power-play goals and two even strength goals by each team, capped by McDavid’s empty netter.“We all knew it.
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