EDMONTON, AB - After playing six of their last seven games on the road, it's good to be home if you're the Edmonton Oilers.
An exhausting five-game road trip that included four Pacific Division battles was followed up with a weekend back-to-back home and away set with another divisional foe in the Vancouver Canucks - a scheduling quirk that saw the Oilers split the points with a 3-2 win on Sunday.
"It's been crazy, but a lot of teams are in the same boat. November's a busy month," Captain Connor McDavid, the NHL's First Star of the Month, said Tuesday. "Obviously we're coming off a long road trip, and it'll be nice to spend some time at home here."
Crazy is also how Alex Chiasson would describe it, and the fact that the Oilers longest stint at Rogers Place so far this season has been three games in the early part of last month against the Arizona Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, and New Jersey Devils.
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"It's felt like every time we've come home, it's been two games and then we go back on the road for three or four," forward Alex Chiasson said
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