from Mark Spector of Sportnset,

Five games ago, the Edmonton Oilers had the best winning percentage in the NHL.

Oh boy, does that ever seem like a long time ago.

Losers of five straight — with just five goals scored in the first four games of this Homestand from Hell — the Oilers went from a team that prided itself on not having lost two games in a row this season, to a club that has now lost two games in a row four times in a row.

“When you’re slumping, everything seems so much harder. It seems like you can’t score, like you can’t make a play,” said Leon Draisaitl, who has managed to cling to the NHL scoring lead — but just barely, tied with Connor McDavid — with only two points (both goals) in his past four games.

What happened to a guy who had us wondering if he could score 50 goals in 50 games? Where did the offence go?

“It’s a hard league to score in,” he said, a matter of factly. “I said that I’m not going to score 82 goals. And I’m not going to score 50 in 50, probably, either. These slumps happen. They happen to me every year; they happen to every player, every year. It was going to happen at one point. I would love to snap out of it, sooner than later.”

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