National ice hockey player Leon Draisaitl lost a 2-0 lead with the Edmonton Oilers in the NHL and suffered another defeat at the Florida Panthers.
The 3:5 on Tuesday night (November 21st, 2023) was the second defeat under new coach Kris Knoblauch, who lost half of his games on the bench.
Again, clear leadership is not enough
In the 4:6 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday, Edmonton had already given up a 2-0 lead and suffered its first defeat since the coaching change.
After Draisaitl’s assist, Connor McDavid shot the Oilers into the lead, and Evander Kane added his eighth goal of the season. The hosts equalized in the first half before McDavid took the lead with his second goal.
Sixth win in seven games for the Panthers
But then only the hosts scored – and thus took their sixth win from the last seven games.
For the team from Edmonton, which started the season with title ambitions, it was already the 11th defeat in the regular season in the 17th game of the season. Only one team in the NHL has lost more times.
Defeat for Grubauer, Sturm is still missing
In the same division, the teams of German players Philipp Grubauer and Nico Sturm also suffered defeats. The goalie Grubauer was only between the posts in the first third of the 3:4 after extra time for his Seattle Kraken against the Calgary Flames. He stopped five of the six shots on goal.
Sturm was still unavailable for the Sharks in the 3-1 defeat against the Vancouver Canucks for family reasons.