The Edmonton Oilers show flashes of great skill and determined play. But yet again they found a way to lose, this time 7-4 to the Washington Capitals, the score inflated by two empty-netters. Article content

The Oilers got behind early and failed to find a way to comeback, as valiant as their effort was. Article content Article content

The Grade A shots were 14 for each team, with the subset of 5-alarms shots 8-4 for the Caps.

Connor McDavid , 6. Two assists, but some costly mistakes. He lost a board battle to kick off the sequence of pain on the first Caps goal. Solid spin and pass on Nurse’s first goal. He bit too hard and caused a 3-on-1 rush against early in the third, but a moment later took Drai’s stretch for a break-in Grade A. Fed Draisaitl on the PP on Edmonton’s fourt

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