The Wings hit a couple posts as well, and one of the Oilers stated "posts" on a shot by Draisaitl wasn't a post at all, it was outside of cage.
With our top calibre players it should be a blowout most times we face a deplorable lineup like this. The Wings are in no way a lineup that is composed to compete. Like I said its a circa 1993 Oilers lineup with Jason Arnott and little else. Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver all had little trouble stuffing this tawdry Wings club in the trash. Its the difficulty level of facing some AHL squads except older..
meh my issue is more with the NHL perennially having half a dozen sad sack teams as bad as Detroit Red Wings (which a lot of the time was the Oilers, yeah, I know) But to have half a dozen orgs having guaranteed lose lineups any given season really waters down the NHL product. Last night was easily the least compelling match of the season and its to hard to imagine an Original 6 team being as poor a draw anywhere as the Detroit Red Wings. For a product that charges as much in ticket prices as this one does they have to weed out the teams that are just crap and start getting them to be more competitive somehow. For consistency I stated the same for years regarding us, that the league should intervene in the case of teams that are not even trying, or able, to field a competitive lineup.
If only 6 clubs in the league purposely suck, or the orgs just suck, any given season it brings down the competitive level of a whole bunch of hockey games.