Segment Review: Games 21 to 30, Edmonton Oilers , 2025-26 season

One old saying that I find to be true is that some people need a kick in the ass while others need a pat on the back.

I’ve often wondered how Edmonton’s top players are when it comes to this psychological truism. Today we have some evidence in regard to one of them, Darnell Nurse.

Nurse has played some of the best hockey of his career these past few weeks, this after an iffy if not awful start to the year. Things got so bad that we saw something we’d never seen before: Nurse get blasted in public by team insiders in unprecedented fashion in mid-November.

Rarely had I ever heard more than careful criticism from regular Edmonton sports commentators about poor play from Nurse, but now it came crashing down.

Here was Sport

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