from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,

There are Oil Spills, then there are Oil Gushes.

As Taylor Hall once said as he skated through another discombobulating Edmonton season, “eventually the stink gets on all of us” so there is no sense hanging this absolute crushing two-minute collapse in the third period Tuesday on starting goalie Cam Talbot or Mikko Koskinen who came on in relief when it was 4-2

You can hang this one on everybody wearing an Oiler jersey in a game that was 2-1 Edmonton through 43:50 and somehow ended 6-2 for the Chicago Blackhawks. As Oiler defenceman Darnell Nurse said in a very quiet Oiler bathhouse later, they hung their goalies out to dry when John Hayden, then Dylan Strome, then Patrick Kane scored three times on six shots on Talbot at 3:50, 5:23 and 5:51, then did the opposite of rallying around Koskinen, allowing their former teammate Drake Caggiula to stand alone and rip one past the other goalie on the first shot he saw, 47 seconds later.

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from Terry Jones of the Edmonton Sun,

The Edmonton Oilers are now, you have to figure, turtle soup.

When you lose a seventh straight game and fourth straight at home, gassing a third straight third-period lead — this time spectacularly — in losing 6-2 to the Chicago Blackhawks, then you have to be considered out of the Great Turtle Race of 2019.

Even if the standings still suggest otherwise.

I mean, this was as ghastly as it gets.

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