The Day After 30.0: Beyond blunder, Bouchard’s play back to elite level for Oilers
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12.12.2025
When Evan Bouchard coughed up a puck behind the Edmonton Oilers halfway through the second period of their 4-3 OT loss to the Buffalo Sabres, the reaction was swift.Tage Thompson had all the time in the world to beat Stuart Skinner, and the pitchforks were out. The Bouchard haters surfaced. Everybody was ready to declare his chances of making the Canadian Olympic roster Dead On Arrival.“Evan Bouchard’s Team Canada chances were on life support and this giveaway might be the final blow,” opined one popular X account.You can imagine what the response to it was, as those who haven’t been paying attention to his game took aim. But this was just Side One, and when you Flip it and look at his recent body of work, you’ll see it’s the fan Favourite Record it’s always been. In fact, if you look at his numbers in Edmonton’s 18 games since the start of November, you’ll see Bouchard’s back to his usual dominant ways. With him on the ice at five-on-five, the Oilers have outscored the........
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