Rough night for Bouchard as Edmonton Oilers bow down to Seattle Kraken

Rough night for Bouchard as Edmonton Oilers bow down to Seattle Kraken

Even strength? More like even weakness.

Once again, an element of the Edmonton Oilers game that is supposed to be their greatest weapon turned out to be the reason they lost.

Well, one 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 a 3-2 loss to the Seattle Kraken. And it simply wasn’t enough on a night when Evan Bouchard’s hat-trick of blunders set the table for Seattle’s win.

When you can’t score goals and you continue to give the other team free rush chances, things are never going to go your way.

“There we

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