The time is coming when it will be fair to ask, “How long are we supposed to wait? “

Maybe the 10-game point is when it becomes fair to wonder if this collection of players in Edmonton Oilers jerseys will ever start to look like an actual team — for something resembling a full 60 minutes? You know, 18 skaters with the same idea, the same goals, the same intention to execute the same gameplan the same way?

But on the final stop on an eight-city, eight-game, three timezone mega-journey, where the Oilers summoned the fortitude to erase a 3-1 third period lead before losing 4-3 in overtime, this simply can’t be the night.

If you’ve ever lugged your carcass through two weeks of a new-town-every-second-night sojourn that lasts three full weeks — sleeping in until 8:30 in the East, waking up a

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