The view from Edmonton

EDMONTON JOURNAL

Joanne Ireland: Edmonton Oilers take royal beating in L.A.

“Even concocting the kind of will required just to play the Los Angeles Kings, let alone trying to negate their playoff plans, proved to be too much of a challenge for the Edmonton Oilers.”

Jonathan Willis: Player grades – Edmonton Oilers humiliated by Los Angeles Kings in 8-2 debacle

“To be fair to the rest of the team, three of the first four goals against involved egregious errors from starter Ben Scrivens. To be fair to Ben Scrivens, he did make some good saves and even if he hadn’t surrendered three wretched goals Edmonton still would have lost.”

EDMONTON SUN

Robert Tychkowski: Los Angeles overruns Oilers in dominant win

“And with the Kings two points out of the playoffs with six games to go when the night began, the Oilers could have dealt a serious blow to their hopes, but it didn’t happen.”

OILERS NATION

Matt Henderson: G78.0 Wrap Up: Oilers @ Kings

“Goaltending isn’t good enough. Defense isn’t even close to good enough. Without those things all the first round forwards in the world aren’t going to help.”

SB Nation – THE COPPER & BLUE

Ken.Price: Let’s never speak of this again

“There’s no one young superstar Hall or Nuge or Eberle or Yak you’re hanging your hat on.”

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