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The Day After 16.0: Embarrassed Oilers can only hope loss to Avalanche is rock bottom

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10.11.2025
Saturday night was a measuring-stick kind of game.

Hockey Night in Canada. The Edmonton Oilers hosting the Colorado Avalanche on three days rest. McDavid vs. MacKinnon. These are the kind of games you’d expect a struggling team like the Oilers to show up for.

Instead, the Oilers might’ve just shown their true colours as a team that looks like a shell of its former self, getting embarrassed as the Avalanche did whatever they wanted, eventually running the score up to 9-1. It was the first time the team had been outscored by eight or more goals in a game since January 27th, 2009, when they lost 10-2 to the Buffalo Sabres.

“I definitely hope this is rock bottom for us,” said a defeated Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch after the game. “I hope this wakes up a lot of guys and we........

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