Even strength? More like even weakness.

Once again, an element of the Edmonton Oilers game that is supposed to be their strength turned out to be the reason they lost.

Well, one of the reasons, anyway.

There was plenty of blame to go around Saturday, but at the root of it was Edmonton’s inability to generate offence.

For the eighth time in their last nine games the Oilers were held to two or fewer even strength goals, this time just one in Saturday’s 3-2 loss to the Seattle Kraken.

Edmonton scored once on the power play and once at five-on-five, but it wasn’t enough on a night when Evan Bouchard’s hat-trick of mistakes set the table for Seattle’s win.

When you can’t score goals and you continue to give the other team free rush chances, things are never going to go your way,

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