Edmonton Oilers: Top 10 moments from 2015

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Number Seven: Oilers overcome 3-0 Deficit

On October 29th, the Edmonton Oilers were down 3-0 within the first period.

Stop me if you heard that one before. These were the same sad sack Oilers that we’ve come to get frustrated each night. Lifeless. Poor effort. Horrid starts.

Might as well turn off the TV, read a book, do something productive. Obviously, the Oilers weren’t going to do that.

Guess again though. The Edmonton Oilers actually came back from that 3-0 hole to win 4-3 in regulation against the Montreal Canadiens. It was definitely a game after all.

Remember, this was the Montreal Canadiens who just snapped a nine game winning streak on the Tuesday before against the Vancouver Canucks. This is the same Montreal Canadiens that have the mighty Carey Price, the reigning Hart and Vezina trophy winner in net. It looked bad.

However, the Oilers battled back, which was a foreign concept to me as an Oilers fan. Leon Draisaitl, playing in his first game of the season after being called up from Bakersfield the night before, opened the scoring on an iffy goal on Carey Price. Next, McDavid would keep track of the puck to give it to the blue line where Davidson would score. Then McDavid, not to be finished, he would set up a great pass to Benoit Pouliot for the tying goal.

Then came Draisaitl’s second game of the year, where he would receive a gift from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in roughly the final minute of the game.

It was one of the Oilers better games of the year and it was something else to watch. It was a game that I did not see coming.