EDMONTON — While the fans at Rogers Centre stressed and fumed over a Toronto Blue Jays club that is leaking oil at the most important time of the season, across the country at Rogers Place in Edmonton, we’re not even sure the Oilers players were overly concerned with the outcome of perhaps the most meaningless game of their entire season.

OK — that’s probably not fair.

But as Edmonton’s big guns came out to play for the first time, what ensued was a “how to” video for why the National Hockey League will be going down to four pre-season games starting next September.

Over-passing, over-skating, and inevitably, overcharging those brave fans who couldn’t resist a September night at an NHL rink, the Oilers were pedestrian at best in a low-event, 4-1 loss to the Seattle Kraken.

“A little sl

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