Or, if they lose again it will be because they got screwed by the refs.
OK, maybe that’s a little ambitious, even for the second-hottest regular season team in hockey history, but after 16 wins in a row, you kind of run out of reasons to believe this thing isn’t going to last a long time.
They aren’t going to win ‘em all (you can’t, apparently), but the characteristics and habits of a team that knows what it’s doing are taking deep root.
The latest piece of evidence came in the form of Edmonton’s 4-1 win Saturday afternoon against the Nashville Predators, another complete and convincing effort in which they choked the life out of the other guys like a python finishing off a rat.The Oilers ran the table in January (11-0) and closed out their schedule before the All-Star game/bye-week hiatus by winning their last four games by a combined scored of 14-3. They’re 24-3 in their last 27 and goaltender Stuart Skinner is 19-2 in this last 21 starts and has 12 wins in a row.
Everything is going right. Even when not everything is going right.
“With the amount of games we have left I’m guessing we’re probably going to lose again,” laughed the Oilers goaltender, who made 29 saves in the win.
“(Former Canadiens goalie) Carey Price said this in an interview once: It’s never as bad as it is and it’s really never as good, either. That’s super true. It seems like we can never lose again, like we’re on top of the world, but there are still a lot of things we need to dial in on the ice.
“It’s nice that we are winning and things are going well, but there are things we need to keep getting better at.”
