Player grades: Oilers pour on the offence but forget defence, fall 6-5 to Jets

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Fresh off a road trip that saw them win three consecutive low-scoring games, the Edmonton Oilers returned home and proceeded to forget everything they learned about tidy play in their own end of the ice. Turnovers inside their own blueline burned them multiple times, including on all three tie-breaking goals the Winnipeg Jets scored, the last of which broke a 5-5 deadlock early in the final frame. For all the sweat energy the Oilers poured into overcoming what was at one point a three-goal deficit, all they had to show for it at night’s end was another regulation loss, their eighth of the season. Read More