THE BRIGHT SIDE

• The Oilers had a good start to the game with a few good shifts from everyone. As per usual, Matt Benning was throwing his little body around with a giant open ice hit and got the crowd on their feet early. The boys continued to move their feet quickly and had some good rushes, eventually drawing a few penalties from their hard work.
• I’ve been really liking Camalleri on the powerplay. Not much production so far but he takes so many shots that it’s refreshing to see. We need someone who always thinks to shoot first, pass later.
• So many guys stood out to me in the first period showing off their skills. Connor was being Connor, Jujhar made a few hard-working plays in the neutral zone to get the puck in deep, Auvitu’s slapshot always impresses me, Puljujarvi had a good few touches and played hard as well. Everyone seemed to be clicking and it was a beautiful sight.
• CONNOR! He’s without a doubt back to his normal self after suffering some strep throat. The kid is a human highlight machine and proved it again tonight every time he touched the puck.
• You gotta love the emotion Kassian brings to the rink every game. Thank god he didn’t take a penalty during his fiasco with Weber in the second period (otherwise this note would probably be a face palmer). Now that Hendricks is gone, he’s one of our main energy guys on the ice.
• I don’t even know if I can count the third period as a bright side or not. The Oilers came out flying, just like they did in the first period. They controlled the play, pushed the pace, and threw a ton of shots on net, but had nothing to show for it.
• Despite the four goals against I honestly didn’t mind Brossoit’s game tonight. The first two goals were absolutely not his fault, and the whole team shut down after that for the remainder of the second period. I’ve noticed myself not getting as nervous when we don’t have possession in the defensive zone because my trust is growing slowly but surely for Brossoit.

THE FACE PALMERS

• It’s still a little disappointing to not see Puljujarvi on the power play. I mean, do we HAVE to have Lucic out there? #GivePoolPartyAChance
• BOO to unlucky goals! On their fifth shot of the game, Aberg somehow got his stick on a high point shot and deflected it past Brossoit who essentially had no chance at a save. The goal was reviewed for a high-stick but OF COURSE went against the Oilers favour. Twitter collectively agreed that it should have been a high-stick, which automatically made me believe that the call on the ice would stay strictly because the hockey gods hate us.
• Kevin Fiala scored an easy open net powerplay goal in the second period after a shot from the point deflected off two players and found his stick. This is some real bad puck luck for the Oilers and there’s not a whole lot we could have done about that, especially cause Nuge was playing stickless after getting interfered with in the neutral zone. I mean, maybe Klefbom didn’t have to shoot the puck out of play and take the penalty in the first place… but still.
• Alright so the third goal against WAS our fault. Not really sure what Benning was doing with the lousy poke check and I’m not really sure what Lucic was doing with his man coverage but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• I mean… three penalties in the second period probably won’t help us win a lot of games, ESPECIALLY with our penalty kill playing the way it did tonight… which was 33%  by the way.
• We outshot Nashville 46-23 and lost 4-0. That is all.
• In addition to being shutout by another backup goaltender, we went 0/3 on the powerplay which also makes me want to vomit.

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