If you’re from southern Alberta, you loved it. If you’re an impartial observer who just enjoys the good old hockey game, you were highly entertained. And if your allegiances lie in Oil Country, you were aghast. Not to mention shocked. And appalled. Horrified, too.
In a season already filled with games that have pushed their most mild-mannered fans to the brink, the Edmonton Oilers inspired a whole new level of outrage on Saturday (March 26) with an embarrassing 9-5 loss to the rival Calgary Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome before a national audience on Hockey Night in Canada.
In what was supposed to be the biggest Battle of Alberta in years, one team didn’t even look like it belonged on the ice. The Oilers were a dumpster fire in their own end, where no gaffe went unpunished by the red-hot Flames, who lit Edmonton up for three goals in each of the three periods.
Leon Draisaitl scored three times for the Oilers, who also got goals from Derek Brassard and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins….
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