After pissing away what looked like a sure thing against the St. Louis Blues on Monday, the Edmonton Oilers were back on the ice in Dallas to close out the second half of their back-to-back. And while we all knew beating the Stars would be a tall task, what I didn’t expect was to watch a near carbon copy of what happened against the Blues.

I honestly cannot believe that I’m talking about the Oilers blowing another two-goal lead in a game where it looked like they were well on their way to tucking two points in their pocket. For the third time in the last four games, the Oilers found a way to build themselves a multi-goal lead only to blow it for a loss with time winding down. I literally wrote about this on Tuesday when the St. Louis Blues erased Edmonton’s two-goal lead in the back half of the game, and on Tuesday night they did the exact same thing again.

Only this time, the Oilers had a two-goal lead with 11 minutes left in the game and fumbled the bag once again. And just like we saw against New York and St. Louis, the Oilers got burned by avoidable mistakes and the inability to get a key save when they needed it. Sure, you could argue that Dallas was the better team all night — they were — but when you get the chance to steal a win, you have to find a way to make it happen. I don’t know how often we need to keep rewatching this movie, but I’m really getting tired of seeing the same results over and over again without the team doing anything about it. True contenders don’t let points slip away like this, and it’s getting to the point where the lip service from the team is starting to feel more and more hollow.

Jack Roslovic has been on fire over the last week, and even though I know you fine folks are probably tired of me talking about him, I most certainly am not. With the two assists he picked up on Podkolzin and Draisaitl’s first-period goals, Roslovic extended his point streak to four games, where he’s produced five points. What I like the most is how he’s fitting in so well on the power play after replacing David Tomasek on the top unit, while also starting to build some nice chemistry on the second line with Leon Draisaitl and Vasily Podkolzin. I know heaters don’t last forever, but it’s hard not to be excited about a guy who is finding ways to produce in different situations.

When Roslovic showed up in Edmonton, the book on him was that he can be effective at producing offence at even strength, and that was a super exciting proposition considering how badly Edmonton struggles in this domain. So, it’s hard not to get excited when you see that he’s slowly starting to figure it out at even strength while also excelling in Zach Hyman’s spot on the power play. At $1.5 million for the season, it’s hard to argue that Roslovic isn’t already providing the team with plenty of value. The tricky part will be whether or not he can keep it going. If he can, it won’t be long until we start wondering what it’s going to take for the Oilers to keep him around beyond this year.

Doesn’t the world make a little more sense when Leon Draisaitl is on a heater? It does to me. He’s just one of those guys who always seems to perform well even when the players around him aren’t matching suit, and our handsome German warlord has been on a tear lately. Even if we ignore the pointless, shotless performance against the Blues — it’s not fair to expect perfection every night — Draisaitl has been playing like a man possessed over the last few weeks. Even with a real lack of consistency around him, Draisaitl has found a way to get his name on the scoresheet more often than not.

Knowing that being held pointless is only a speed bump for Draisaitl, I legitimately laughed out loud when I saw him score from the absurd angle he did in the first period. We all know how dangerous Drai can be from his spot in the right circle, but this goal was something different. He basically scored this one from the parking lot. With both feet below the goal line, Draisaitl took the feed from Roslovic and unleashed a shot that most players wouldn’t even consider, let alone score on. If you’re a Stars fan, you can’t even be mad if you’re the goalie on that one. Sometimes, all you can do is tip your cap to a world-class talent doing world-class things.

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