You can’t win ‘em all, but oh my goodness the Edmonton Oilers needed to win this one.

Their team was finally gaining some momentum with a modest two-game win streak, they were talking about turning corners and gaining confidence, and their next opponent was the Walking Dead — the last-place team in the east, running on fumes.

It should have been a clean kill.

And it was, for the Buffalo Sabres.

On a freezing cold night in Edmonton, the lukewarm Oilers only invested 20 minutes in a game they sorely needed and, guess what, it wasn’t enough.

After falling behind 3-0 through 40 minutes, the Oilers were lucky to grab a point after a wild third-period comeback made possible by a missed icing call on the first goal and Connor McDavid ’s equalizer with two seconds left in regulation, but

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