EDMONTON — Welcome to the Pathetic Division.

Out here, losses grow on trees, and playoff berths fall from the sky.

Out here, it’s Oprah country: You get a first-round series! And you get a first-round series!

“It’s a bit of a pillow fight right now,” admitted Oilers captain Connor McDavid, on a night where six Pacific teams played and six Pacific teams lost in regulation.

“We’re fortunate to play in this division. A lot of teams are fortunate to play in this division,” McDavid said. “We’re thankful not to have lost any ground. That being said we have to find a way to win some games here on the road. We have to make up some ground.”

How bad is it getting?

As the Oilers fell to a Florida team for the second straight game on home ice, this time a 5-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, they looked at the standings to see that they hadn’t lost any ground to anybody on another Softball Saturday night in the Pacific.

The same thing happened two nights before, if you can believe........

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