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Oilers know they need to be better despite taking two points from Habs

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28.10.2025
The Edmonton Oilers know they didn’t fully deserve to win Thursday night’s game against the Montreal Canadiens.

They were sloppy, disorganized, and looked disinterested at times for the first 50 minutes of the game, but they woke up in the final 10 minutes, erased a two-goal deficit, and won 6-5. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t how they wanted to play, but they won, and now they head out to Seattle and Vancouver with an opportunity to have a really good record through their first 10 games.

The players weren’t shy about discussing their performance.

“We found a way to get a lead in the second, but then we stopped playing for a bit,” said Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. “That is a high-powered team if you give them looks, and let them feel good, they will capitalize. It (our effort) just wasn’t good enough. We took advantage, we got some power plays at the end that we scored on, and then a really big goal by Pods (Podkolzin). I thought we started to push at the end, but for most of the game it wasn’t up to our standard.”

Nugent-Hopkins has been the Oilers’ most consistent skater through eight games. He’s tied his career-best start in goals with five through eight games.

Season

8 GP

Total

2011

5-3-8

18-34-52 (62 GP

2012

0-5-5

4-20-24 (40GP)

2013

4-4-8

19-37-56 (80)

2014

3-3-6

24-32-56 (76)

2015

3-1-4

12-22-34 (55)

2016

0-4-4

18-25-43 (82)

2017

2-1-3

24-24-48 (62)

2018

3-8-11

28-41-69 (82)

2019

1-5-6

22-39-61 (65)

2020

4-3-7

16-19-35 (52)

2021

0-11-11

11-39-50 (63)

2022

5-6-11

37-67-104 (82)

2023

2-5-7

18-49-67 (80)

2024

1-3-4

20-29-49 (78)

2025

5-4-9

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They’ve needed him while Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl have yet to........

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