EDMONTON – “Obviously, it stings right now.”
Leon Draisaitl faced his own disappointment when speaking to the media after the Edmonton Oilers’ deflating 4-3 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.
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“It’s an unfortunate way to lose,” Draisaitl said. “But that’s on us.”
The German Gretzky expanded on that idea by addressing two costly mistakes in his game from Saturday night. The first one is on the first Golden Knights goal.
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“On the first one, I get stripped there,” Draisaitl stated. “That puck should probably just go in (to their zone) so that’s obviously, that’s on me.”
“I think the quickness of the two (goals) deflated us a little bit.”
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Draisaitl then shared his view of the buzzer-beater goal.
“We didn’t sort it out very well to let the puck get into the slot,” Draisaitl revealed. “After that, I think It’s unlucky, it’s unfortunate…It’s just a bad bounce.”
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“It goes off my stick, I’m just trying to keep it out of the net.”
On the bright side, the Oilers are up 2-1 in the series. They must feel the sting of the loss to harness it as motivation to put the Golden Knights on their heels. Draisaitl knows what they need to do to get the win in Game 4.
“Get back to what we did in the first 10 minutes,” Draisaitl said. “Moving our feet, making plays, just get back to that.”
“Tomorrow’s a new day, we’ll move on.”
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