EDMONTON — The Elephant in the Edmonton Oilers’ room is a man of few words. And his teammates, they say even less, delicately skating around his name while trying to explain how another game went south.

“Turnovers kind of turned the game a little bit. We have to clean that up,” Leon Draisaitl hemmed and hawed moments earlier, when asked to explain an Oilers implosion that saw a 3-1, third-period lead evaporate into a 4-3 overtime loss. “Self-inflicted mistakes, that’s all it is. It’s nothing magical that the other teams are doing. We’re just beating ourselves right now. It’s something we have to clean up.”

Were the New York Rangers forced to work hard enough for most of their goals on this night?

“Like I said three times now, turnovers turned the game,” said an impatient Draisaitl. “So,

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