The Oilers lost their first three games this season and have been one of the lowest-scoring teams in the league so far.
job was concerned his Dallas Stars would get off to a slow start after back-to-back trips to the Western Conference Final.
“There are teams that are struggling to find their game a little bit,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “I don’t think year-to-year, you can look at it and be like, ‘Oh, I can’t believe top teams are struggling.’ … I just think it just sort of depends on a lot of details of your game.”Those details helped Dallas start 5-1-0.
“You look at some of the teams that have started slow and gone on to have really good season, but we’re challenged with some adversity here and we have to find a way out of it.”A year ago, the Oilers lost 13 of their first 18 games and were 30th out of 32 teams at U.S. Thanksgiving before a coaching change from Jay Woodcroft to Kris Knoblauch started to pay dividends. Edmonton reached the Cup final before losing to Florida.
“I think it’s on us to defensively, just smarten up and figure out that that’s where we really got to focus on and bear down and frustrate other teams. Because we can’t get frustrated ourselves.”Turnovers and other mistakes are going to happen. Stars defenceman Thomas Harley said that particularly in October “it takes a little bit to get out of shinny habits in the summer” and this is the time to “bear down and work on the less fun parts of the game.
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