If you watched the Oilers play against the St. Louis Blues on Monday night, you already know what happened against the Dallas Stars. Edmonton was able to get an early 2-0 lead off sharp looks from Jack Roslovic and Vasily Podkolzin. Dallas was able to rally back and beat the Oilers in a depressing shootout loss.

The Oilers have blown four multi goal leads in 15 games. For perspective, Edmonton blew four multi goal leads during the entire 2024-2025 season. Something is seriously wrong with this group’s ability to play with the lead. Other teams have no issue getting back into the game and rattling the Oilers. A lot has been said by pundits about well Edmonton can play with adversity, the issue is that when there is no adversity to be found they make sure to create some for themselves.

On the scoresheet Edmonton looked like the better team Tuesday night: more faceoffs won, a better power play, more blocked shots, more takeaways, less giveaways, and a better save percentage from Skinner (though just barely).

But the Oilers lost, again, after blowing a multi-goal lead, again.

The Stars came out of the gate each period in a flurry – it was a miracle that Edmonton ever held a two goal lead in the first place. Edmonton found their stride and was able to maintain the pace of play for the first 40 minutes, but Dallas was able to regain control during the third, and once this game went to the shootout you already knew it was over. If there’s one thing the Oilers could not give less of a care about, it’s trying to win a shootout.

At least they got a point tonight.

Edmonton will play their next game against the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night.