Let's play a game with this one.

I'm going to look at every goal, like I always do, but this time I'm going to look and see if the closest player to the goal score was a defending player, or was it the goaltender?

Aves lose to the Edmonton Oilers, 4 to 3.

Okay, the elephant in the room here, I will talk about the goalie interference Nathan McKinnon thing, but I want to be clear that despite that, the abs did a great job of losing this game all by themselves.

A bad goalie interference call did not make the abs abandon the middle of their own defensive ice repeatedly all game long.

That isn't to say it didn't have impact on the game, tiring the abs legs out, having to kill a major penalty and removing one of the best forwards in the NHL from the third

period, but the abs issues in this game do not stem from the Nathan McKinnon thing.

This game actually started immediately for the abs as they get another first minute goal

on the season.

An interesting situation, but maybe the one right call the reps got here, that puck comes out of the zone pretty clearly, but Edmonton puts it back in themselves.

So everyone's on side.

You're all good to go. Nelson gets it over to Colton.

Colton takes his time with this one, but ultimately lets it go.

It hits a stick on the way in and goes in the net, hit a stick on the way in. Obviously,

the closest player is not the goaltender. A bit of a fortunate bounce, maybe, but you absolutely take

those. Unfortunately, the aves seem to never be able to get away with anything. Ross Colton

would get hurt later in this first period by taking a puck to the upper body. He's listed as an

upper body injury now.

That sucks. The abs, post-Olympic break, continue to have a discipline problem. They took four

penalties in this game, which is not an obscene amount, but when you're talking about the

Edmonton-Euler power play, that is the best in the NHL, it's a problem. On the first time of asking,

Edmonton shows you why. Edmonton gains the line with some good pace here. Manson maybe gets

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