The goaltending malaise continues for the Edmonton Oilers.
Even after the lengthy Olympic break, the Oilers’ main downside between the pipes confirmed up once more on Wednesday night time, as they suffered a 6-5 loss to the Anaheim Geese at Honda Heart, California.
Jack Roslovic and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored within the opening interval to provide the Oilers a 2-0 lead, however Tristan Jarry allowed back-to-back targets to Anaheim, which tied it at 2-2 with an Alex Killorn power-play rating three minutes into the second body.
All of it went downhill for Edmonton from there, because the Geese scored 4 of the sport’s last 5 targets. Jarry surrendered 5 of Anaheim’s targets regardless of dealing with solely 25 pictures.
It was a efficiency that didn’t earn Jarry extra followers, not to mention the approval of head coach Kris Knoblauch, who pulled the netminder after Anaheim’s third aim within the third interval.
“Clearly, I wasn’t pleased with the goaltending,” Knoblauch stated following the sport, through Mark Spector of Sportsnet. “The targets that we gave up, particularly within the third interval. I didn’t like these.”
There have been different errors there, however you want higher goaltending,” Knoblauch added. “Tonight wasn’t one among (Jarrry’s) finest video games.”
It was one other wasted effort for Edmonton’s offense, which received 2 assists from Connor McDavid. Scoring 5 targets ought to have been greater than sufficient to win a sport within the NHL, however apparently not on Wednesday for the Oilers, who’ve now misplaced 4 video games in a row, courting again to earlier than the Olympic break. Over that stretch, they gave up 22 targets.
The 28-23-8 Edmonton will attempt to finish their skid once more on Thursday in opposition to the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles, California.
