On a night when the Edmonton Oilers were humiliated, exposed and slapped silly on national television, the most humbling moment of the night came, ironically, on their only goal.

It revealed a bitter, hard-to-swallow truth: After giving up five-straight even-strength goals to Colorado, the only way Edmonton can compete with the Avalanche is one the power play.

So what does Colorado do? On Edmonton’s very next power play, one of their fourth liners walked around Evan Bouchard at the blue line and scored a short-handed breakaway to make it 6-1.

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Then it was 7-1, Then 8-1. Then 9-1. The eight-goal spread ties the worst home-ice defeat in franchise history (10-2 to Buffalo in 2009).

Did somebody say 2009? Yup, it was a savage beati

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