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Monday Musings: Arrows Up for Oilers, Pacific Division Race and Injury Updates

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10.12.2025
It took longer than they wanted, but the Edmonton Oilers seem to have found their collective stride. A mixture of rest, practice time and increased attention to detail has led to three wins in their last four games and improvements in every area of their game.

Edmonton scored first in only nine of its first 22 games. They were playing catchup too often and it led to a losing record. They’ve scored first in five of their last seven games and went 4-0-1 in the five games they scored first. They led from start to finish in all of those games, except when Tampa Bay tied the game with 2:32 remaining and won it in overtime. The Oilers never trailed at any other point in those five games (301:43 minutes) and picked up nine of 10 points.

Since getting smacked 8-3 by Dallas, the Oilers got some rest, playing only four games in 11 days, and had three solid practices. Every facet of their play has improved since. It is a small sample size, but the schedule was set up for them to succeed, and they have. They’ve outscored teams 19-7. Their power play is a ridiculous 63.6 percent, their penalty kill is 91.7 percent. Their goalies have a combined .932 save percentage and 1.79 goals against average. Ten skaters have goals, including three goals from bottom-six skaters, 12 forwards have points, and the Oilers have outscored teams 3-1 without Connor McDavid or Leon Draisaitl on the ice at five-on-five. In their first 25 games, the Oilers were outscored 33-13 when neither of their superstars was on the ice. They........

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