CALGARY, AB - Wash it away, learn from it and regroup.
The Edmonton Oilers held a hotel media availability on Thursday afternoon following a team meeting earlier in the morning to break down Wednesday night's 9-6 defeat to the Calgary Flames in Game 1 of their second-round Battle of Alberta series at Scotiabank Saddledome.
"You just have to park it no matter if you win 1-0, lose 1-0, win 10-6 or lose 9-6," forward Zach Hyman said. "Whatever the case may be, it's just one game, right? We're down 1-0, we park it, and we go back to the drawing board. We know what we have to do to be successful, we have a blueprint for that success and now we go back and try to get a win in Game 2 and go for a split here."
Watching back the game tape from Game 1 solidified many of the thoughts delivered post-game by Head Coach Jay Woodcroft that the Oilers simply did not have the individual or collective readiness to begin the game, conceding two goals in the opening 51 minutes, before the defensive details of the team let down a six-goal offensive output that on any night should've been good enough to win on the road.
"It confirmed a lot of the things we saw," Woodcroft said. "Bottom line, not good enough for us.
"We scored six even-strength goals and that should be enough to win a game. For us, our checking skills and our defending fundamentals have to really improve. We scored six, but we gave up seven at even-strength."
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Zach Hyman, Mike Smith and Coach Jay Woodcroft took questions from the media the the afternoon following Edmonton's 9-6 defeat to Calgary in Game 1