You Gotta Problem

The problem is goals.  Don't make it anything that it isn't.  Alright, I'll give you the "allowing a goal just 30-90 seconds into the game" thing, that's not good either.  But, 95% of your problem?   It's goals.  It's not a lack of preparedness, it's not that Jordan Eberle only eats at Swiss Donair, it's not that Cam Talbot is screwing it all up.  It's none of that.  All of those players are who they are.  Nothing's changed in that regard.   All of this will work with some goals.

It's goals.  Plain and simple.  At the beginning of the season, everything was going in.  Oilers hung seven goals on the Flames, and were averaging four goals a game through the first five.  "Oilers have turned a corner!" you read. Well, yeah, they did.  So long as they can pump four goals a game behind a floundering Brian Elliott every night, your corners have been turned.

Only problem?  They're not playing the Flames every night. Matter of fact, they've actually got to play some teams that made the playoffs last year, and now that this is happening, some of those goals are drying up.  Oilers have averaged just 2.4 goals in their last five games, and the old adage about being difficult to win tends to ring true when you're not scoring more than your opponent.

The Oilers are going to have to start to get some goals from players who aren't on the top line, or who aren't mistakenly called "Lance" by Drew Remenda.  It's got to happen fast, because things are about to go way south in a hurry.

The Oilers are in Anaheim tonight to take on a Ducks team that yielded five goals to the Predators on Saturday night. Let's go to the tape.

The Oilers are saying

"Things just needed to be changed...We weren't creating anything and defensively we were getting scored on a little bit.  It's nothing you take to heart.  You just move on and play better tomorrow."

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