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Scenes From Morning Skate: Maybe the Oilers just need to get embarrassed

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10.11.2025
The Edmonton Oilers are 6-5-3 and nothing has worked to fix what’s broken. Talking about it hasn’t worked. Line changes haven’t worked. Player-led meetings haven’t worked. Coaching messages haven’t worked.

They keep saying the right things, then go out and blow leads, play inconsistent hockey, and drop points to teams they should beat in regulation.

Maybe what they need is to get embarrassed by the Colorado Avalanche tonight.

Not just lose. Not another tight game where they blow a lead in the third period and come away with a point in overtime. They need to get thoroughly dominated by one of the best teams in the Western Conference in front of their home crowd. The kind of loss that’s impossible to rationalize or explain away. The kind of performance that forces everyone to admit this team has serious problems that aren’t getting fixed with half-measures.

“We’ve done a good job of putting ourselves in some pretty good spots, and haven’t found a way to close them out. That’s an area we’ve got to clean up,” began

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