When he studies video of Edmonton’s current three-game losing streak, which blends into a 2-5-1 slide that has some fans fearing this club is about to go Full Oiler again, McLellan doesn’t have enough collars to go around. Suffice it to say they are trying to get by without much help from half of their forwards and it’s not going very well. “For us to (start winning) there are four, five, six individuals who really have to pick up their game,” McLellan said Monday before the team jetted down to California for a three game road trip. “When the grind starts in the NHL season, which is now, after 10 or 12 games, that’s who you are as a player, that’s what you really are offensively, defensively, commitment-wise. “Ebs doesn’t beat many goaltenders from the blue line, he doesn’t beat them necessarily from the tops of the circles.

Source: National Post November 15, 2016 17:15 UTC