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https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/h...-beat-them-4-0

But Edmonton’s 5-0 loss to the Flames was also a reality check for the Oilers, a game where their weak results in two-way play in recent weeks finally caught up to them.

Connor McDavid, 4. Johnny Gaudreau was his check and McDavid allowed him to score Calgary’s second and fourth goals. He got little done on the attack, not finding chemistry with anyone just now save for Leon Draisaitl, but not even with Draisaitl this game.


Leon Draisaitl, 4. Not his night. He missed the net on power play shots in the second. He got re-united with McDavid early in the third, then made a bad play by taking a tripping penalty. He looked like he’d given up on the pretence of hustle half-way through the third. He led the Oilers with four official giveaways. He did win 14 out of 22 face-offs.


Zack Kassian, 2. Did he win a battle all game? Maybe send him to the AHL for a spell.


Mike Smith, 3. He got off to a good start, stoning Giordano on a Grade A slot shot four minutes into the first. Also stopped Ritchie’s dangerous jam shot in the first. But things fell apart for him in the second where he could not save his team, allowing goals on three of the first four Grade A shots that period. The Flames started to pick him apart with Grade A shots in the second, and then he himself muffed it on Giordano’s goal, Calgary’s fourth. He was truly sieved it on the fifth Flames goal, but the game was over by then.