Another game, another blown lead, and another loss for the Edmonton Oilers.

On Tuesday evening, the Oilers played the second game of a road back-to-back, falling 4-3 to the Dallas Stars in the shootout to move to 6-5-4 for the season. Let’s take a look at what went on in this game.

The Oilers opened the scoring just over four and a half minutes into the game. Jack Roslovic got a zone entry and was able to funnel a cross-ice pass to Vasily Podkolzin, despite having one hand on his stick. Podkolzin one-timed it into the back of the Stars’ net for his second of the season.

About four minutes later, the Oilers took the daunted 2-0 lead on the power play. Roslovic made a quick pass to Leon Draisaitl, who scored from an impossible angle for his league-leading 10th goal of the season.

Midway through the second period, the Stars cut the Oilers’ lead in half. Stuart Skinner made the initial shot, the next shot hit off the post, and it landed on Rantanen’s stick for the goal, his 300th of his career.

The Oilers regained their two-goal lead with 12 minutes left to play, as Ryan Nugent-Hopkins found the trailing and undefended Connor McDavid, who one-timed it home for his fourth goal of the season.

But if you know anything about the 2025-26 Oilers, it’s that they can’t hold a lead. Less than a minute later, the Stars made it a one-goal game once again. With about seven and a half minutes remaining in the third, Miro Heiskanen scored to tie the game at three.

Overtime solved nothing, and the Stars eventually took the game thanks to Wyatt Johnston’s shootout winner in the third round.

Multi-goal leads seem to be the bane of the Oilers this season. In the season opener, they blew a three-goal lead to the Calgary Flames, eventually losing 4-3 in a shootout. They spent the next five games either losing or holding a lead before blowing a two-goal lead against the Ottawa Senators. Including the game against the Senators, they’ve blown five multi-goal leads in their last nine games.

The Oilers are lucky to even get a point from this game. They had 18 scoring chances to the Stars’ 23, while they only had three high-danger scoring chances to the Stars’ 11. Through two periods, the Oilers were outshot 19-12, and went over 20 minutes without an even-strength shot on goal.

On paper, it was another tough game for Stuart Skinner, allowing three goals on 27 shots for an .889 save percentage. He realistically should’ve had the second goal, but the Oilers didn’t have a good defensive game in front of him. Still, Skinner needs to steal a game every once in a while, and he didn’t do that tonight.

The Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid, and Andrew Mangiapane line didn’t have a great game, controlling just 27.9 percent of the expected goal share at five-on-five. The Vasily Podkolzin, Leon Draisaitl, and Jack Roslovic line was the stronger of the two, controlling 53.2 percent of the expected goal share at five-on-five. It was another strong game for the Matt Savoie, Adam Henrique, and Trent Frederic line.

Early in the second period, Lian Bichsel boarded Savoie and received a penalty. Frederic’s response wasn’t particularly great, pulling the Stars’ defenceman off Savoie, but not really sticking up for him. The Oilers are just one of two teams that haven’t fought this season, the other being the Carolina Hurricanes.

Former Hurricane Jack Roslovic has fit like a glove with the Oilers. With his two assists on Tuesday, he now has three goals and eight points in 13 games. Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist, moving him to a league-leading 21 points. Leon Draisaitl’s 10 goals move him into a tie for first in the league.

The Oilers have a three-day break coming up before returning home to host the Colorado Avalanche on Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday at 8:00 PM MT.