Oilers Takeaways: Frustration building after another blown multi

Here’s the thing about blowing as many leads as the Edmonton Oilers have. A record-setting amount of them, as it turns out.

The bright side is, the Calgary Flames aren’t blowing a ton of leads these days. Same goes for St. Louis and San Jose, if you get what we mean.

But as the Oilers set a team record with yet another multi-goal lead blown — this time a pair of two-goal leads in a 4-3 shootout loss at Dallas — you do begin to wonder what all that experience from all of those hard-fought playoff games over the past five years is really worth.

“We’re in a good spot there (up 3-1 in the third period), and we let them come at us a little bit too much,” said longest-serving Oiler Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. “Just decisions that end up biting us. We know we’re capable of closing games out like this