EDMONTON — If you’re dissecting the Edmonton Oilers overall game, you can always find a hole or two. No different than any other team, there are good nights, bad nights, and a bunch that fall somewhere in between.

In the end, the record says more than any expert ever could, and at 9-2-2 and coming off a 3-1-1 homestand, there are a lot of other teams that would love to have the issues that Edmonton has right now.

With the plane gassed up for a three-game road trip through the New York area starting Saturday, the standings say Edmonton has the second most points in the National Hockey League through this opening month.

Complain if you must, but a .769 points percentage under a new coach off the start of the season ain’t chopped liver, no matter how much you might want to nitpick.

Wednesday’s 4-0 win over Calgary looked very much like a contender versus a rebuild. At least, no one who watched that game would mistake one team for the other.

“We just didn’t like the Toronto game (on this homestand). Every other game was OK,” said captain Connor McDavid, whose two assists give him 8-28-36 on the season, and a point in all 13 games so far. “(They had) big wins against some good teams (Minnesota and Carolina) there early — it wasn’t necessarily pretty. I don’t like the Toronto game (7-2 loss), but we were a minute away from winning the other night (4-3 shootout........

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