from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

Stu Skinner walked out of the catacombs surrounding the swank dressing room of his Edmonton Oilers, and stepped into a media scrum waiting in front of his locker.

There was no deflecting or excuse making. He called a spade a spade.

“I ended up losing us the game.”

The Edmonton Oilers got goalied on Thursday night — at both ends of the ice. Their eight-game winning streak went up in smoke in a 7-4 loss to Tampa.

This was a game in which Edmonton — who would outshot Tampa 55-24 on the night — found themselves in a 3-3 tie with the Lightning with just eight minutes remaining in the final period.

Then, Nikita Kucherov pushed a loose puck through Skinner’s legs. It was a bit unlucky, but nobody has time for an unlucky goalie at a time like that.

Then, 75 seconds later, Steven Stamkos floated a long wrist shot past Skinner’s glove to give Tampa a 5-3 lead. Stamkos would score one of two empty net goals — it was the first four-goal night of his career — and the Oilers could never recover from that late, 5-3 deficit that Skinner coughed up.

“It's a one-goal game (when) we ended up scoring,” Skinner said moments after the game. “If I was able to make that last save, we might still be playing right now.”

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