After what was one of the wilder Oilers comeback wins you’ll ever see on Saturday against the Capitals, the boys were back at it against the red-hot Anaheim Ducks. The Ducks had won seven straight games ahead of Monday’s matchup in Edmonton, and it took two new NHL records by the Oilers’ defence to get past them. And while Monday’s game was certainly a rollercoaster, you have to love seeing the boys dust off a Pacific Division rival in their first meeting of the season. Final Score: 7-4 Oilers.

WHAT A NIGHT FOR THE DEFENCE

If you’ve been reading the site for any length of time, you know how much I love depth scoring. I don’t care who scores or how they score, but I get unreasonably excited when anyone not named Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, or Zach Hyman puts a puck in the net. It’s not that I don’t love those three players, Gord knows I do, but this team needs more than three shooters if it’s going to be successful. So to see five of the seven goals scored by the defence was incredibly exciting, and if we had gotten a sixth, I may have burst into a cloud of glitter. I honestly don’t remember the last time that happened around here, but what’s most incredible is that five goals from the Oilers’ blue line weren’t even the best part of the story.

Despite all of the Hall of Famers and star players who have rolled through town........

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