Even strength? More like even weakness.

Once again, an element of the Edmonton Oilers game that is supposed to be their strength turned out to be the reason for their demise.

Well, once of the reasons, anyway.

There was plenty of blame to go around Saturday, but at the root of it was Edmonton’s inability to generate offence.

For the eighth time in their last nine games the Oilers were held to two or fewer even-strength goals, this time just one in Saturday’s 3-2 loss to the Seattle Kraken.

Edmonton scored once on the power play and once at five-on-five, but it wasn’t enough on a night when Evan Bouchard’s hat trick of mistakes set the table for Seattle’s win.

The Oilers, who rank 26th in the league in five-on-five offence, dropped to 4-4-1 on the season, the same record they had la

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