from Jim Matheson at the Edmonton Sun,

After Milan Lucic scored with some resounding uppercuts to the face of Ottawa’s Mark Borowiecki after the Senators defenceman picked the fight in the game’s first minute, it went downhill in a hurry as the Senators out-shot them 9-1 and out-scored them 2-0 in the first 10 minutes en route to a 6-1 beat-down.

"I don't know if I have any answers with what went wrong," said Lucic. "You can come up with any excuse or cliche at this point but at the end of the day it comes down to the attitude and emotion we bring to the game."

"This early in the season we're really being tested with some adversity but feeling sorry for ourselves and having self-pity won't get us out of this...goals aren't coming easy for us, and we're not clean and sharp in the defensive or neutral zone, allowing guys to walk into our zone," he said.

Nice clean, accurate analysis.

The Oilers started with a 3-0 shutout over Calgary in the season-opener where they looked a well-oiled machine but since they've been outscored 14-5. On the season, only three forwards--Connor McDavid (3), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (2) and Leon Draisaitl, out with concussion symptoms (1)--have scored....

Cam Talbot was gone after four goals and 23 shots over 41 minutes and while he couldn't be faulted on Mike Hoffman's two (he's got eight goals in eight career games against Edmonton) or others by Derrick Brassard and Kyle Turris, he's still given up 11 goals in his last 73 shots his first-game shutout over the Flames.

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