It’s a fifth-straight loss for the Edmonton Oilers.
“We’re not playing with enough detail; enough intensity in some of the things to give us success right now and that’s the difference,” Oilers centre Mark Letestu said after the game.
The Oilers generated very little on the attack Thursday night and lost 4-1 to the Vegas Golden Knights.
Ryan Carpenter opened the scoring with 6:56 left in the first period when he converted the rebound of a Deryk Engelland shot.
Vegas added two more goals in the second period. Jonathan Marchessault scored on a deflection in front, then William Karlsson struck on the power play for his team-leading 30th of the season.
Erik Haula scored early in the third to make it 4-0. The puck went in off Haula’s skate, but the goal stood after video review. Leon Draisaitl finally put the Oilers on the board with a sharp angle one-timer with 7:29 left.
“They’re one of the top teams in the league for a reason,” head coach Todd McLellan said. “They played better than we did tonight. They were more opportunistic in the chances they had; especially early in the game down low. And some of our wingers got caught playing low versus our defence and they took advantage of it — and the third one we’d obviously like to have back. That team doesn’t need more than a two or three goal lead to shut it down — I thought they did a real good job — so not a surprise.”
The Oilers (23-29-4) will visit Arizona on Saturday afternoon.