Last night post game article by Spec nails it;
It began right after puck drop, as a notoriously slow-starting Oilers team walked out of their dressing room like a guy greeting the morning sun out at the lake, wearing a bathrobe and slippers, a big cup of coffee in their collective hand.
Sleepy?
Edmonton has earned its reputation for being positively comatose to start games. It goes back to the Dave Tippett years, and no — it’s not getting any better.
“We come in here and we talk about it every day. We sit here after the game, talk about it over, and over, and over ... ,” began assistant captain
Darnell Nurse. “We want to have good starts each and every night.
But, you know, we're sitting here and it's a part of our game. We're almost a quarter of the way through the season.
“The more we just talk away and pester at it. ... We need to just show up and play.
Relax, pin our ears back and come out on the attack.”