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Are The Edmonton Oilers Coming Back To Earth?

11/14/2016 at 7:27am EST

from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

The question I’ve heard most often over the past month has been this one: “Are the Edmonton Oilers for real?”

And my standard answer was, “They’ve got 10 of 15 games in November on the road, against a lot of good teams. Ask me on December 1st.”

Well, after a 3-1 loss to the New York Rangers on Sunday — their third straight defeat — Edmonton’s record over its past eight games falls to 2-5-1. They awake Monday morning in first place in the Pacific, but nobody around this organization is kidding themselves that they are an elite NHL club right now.

“That confidence and swagger that we had in the first eight games kinda got away from us. We haven’t had it in the last eight games,” said Milan Lucic, the big left-winger who came to Edmonton to play alongside Connor McDavid, but was replaced there by Pat Maroon a few games ago.

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Game highlights of the Edmonton loss to the Rangers is below...

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