EDMONTON — How worried were we supposed to be about an Edmonton Oilers team that looks just fine right now?

Certainly, us media types wonder every fall how hard we should pile on the Oilers’ annual slow start. And yes, sometimes we all overreact.

“Ya think?’ offered Leon Draisaitl, whose lethal one-timer from below the right dot is equalled only by his clinical one-liners at the expense of a particular scribe.

C’mon, Leon.

Even you guys must feel some relief when, after groping around in the darkness for 20-25 games, a level of play like the one displayed in a 6-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets finally arrives.

“Sometimes you lose confidence in your own ability and the ability of the group a little bit. And sometimes you’re in a little lull before you get out of it,” Draisaitl allowed, af

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