Many are looking for answers after the Edmonton Oilers took yet another loss in a divisional matchup to the Vancouver Canucks that saw the team get bounced from a wildcard spot.
Edmonton Oilers: This wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. They were supposed to ride Ken Hitchcock’s 9-2-2 record to the glory land. But now here we are, four straight losses into a now 9-6-2 record of the Hitchcock era.
The truth is, we should have expected this. This club was turning up on the positive side of far too many one-goal games for that success to remain sustainable. And a few small tweaks that nobody has any control over along with shaky team play and the failure of depth players to step up has resulted in the four-game losing streak we now find ourselves in.
I’m going to be referencing Ken Hitchcock quite a bit in this article. Because if anyone were to have the answers to this losing streak, well you would hope it would be him.