The Edmonton responded to their last two middling losses by delivering two blowout shutout losses to the Vancouver Canucks and the St. Louis Blues a day later.

The Canucks looked for a moment like they might give the Oilers a run for their money – leaving the first period with a scoreless game – but Edmonton poured it on during the second. Jack Roslovic opened the scoring off the rush three minutes in, Zach Hyman scored on the powerplay shortly after, and Kasperi Kapanen extended Edmonton’s lead to three with a snap shot.

The Vancouver Canucks were given a couple minutes to breathe, but then the Oilers launched their second volley. Roslovic scored his second of the night, followed by Kapanen 30 seconds later for his own deuce. Vasily Podkolzin scored the final goal of the night a minute later after McDavid made the assist of the year – falling to his knees, recollecting, then spin-o-rama passing the rubber straight to Podkolzin’s blade for an easy tap in.

The Canucks went from a very reasonable 0-0 game to a completely lopsided 6-0 game in the span of one period, and they didn’t know how to recover. Kiefer Sherwood got traded two days later, so the beating may have been the last straw for him.

Tristan Jarry recorded his 23rd shutout, stopping 31 shots total, and he looked as steady as one can be – cool, calm, and collected. Just what Edmonton needs.

The Oilers faced off against the St. Louis Blues the next day, and the Blues had the opportunity to show Edmonton just how badly they screwed up with their Broberg and Holloway offer sheets… both players went -2 with a combined 5 shots, and no points.

Edmonton completely outworked the Blues for another shutout blowout where Connor Ingram made 27 saves, though admittedly looked pretty shaky in the process – if the Blues were dialed in the game may have been a different story. But the Blues weren’t dialed in, Jordan Binnington was doing his best sieve impression, and the Blues’ topline was out worked by the Oilers’ comparables.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored the first (and game winning) goal in his 1000th game played as an Oiler to put the cherry on top for the weekend. Zach Hyman scored two goals as insurance, and Podkolzin and Mangiapane both scored goals of their own to pads their stats.

The result of this weekend was what should happen when good teams face bad teams: complete domination. The Canucks did not look like a threat to Edmonton at any point on Saturday, and the Blues were rendered null after the Oilers beat them to submission through the first forty minutes. The results were what you hope to expect, and the Oilers delivered.

They’ll have a bigger challenge when they host the New Jersey Devils Tuesday night.