If you read my post from the weekend, you would know how listless the Edmonton Oilers were on the weekend. They were horrible in every aspect possible–offense, defense, special teams, goaltending. I was in attendance at Edmonton’s Rogers Centre and left five minutes into the third period. It was the earliest I have ever left a NHL game in the 40 years I have been connected to hockey. The Colorado Avalanche delivered a 9-1 butt kicking, and the Oilers players were properly booed by a fanbase that deserved significantly more from their favourite team than the $300 they spent for a ticket.
Fast forward to Monday night, and for about 40 minutes, it seemed destined that the Oilers were going to lose their fourth game in a row. Columbus had a commanding 3-1 lead as the Oilers defense and goaltending were only marginally better than 48 hours earlier.
Then we saw why Connor McDavid is simply recognized as the best player in the National Hockey League. He scored two highlight reel goals that have left the hockey world amazed.
OH MY GOSH CONNOR MCDAVID THAT WAS FILTHY 🤢 pic.twitter.com/4EvPquPiBf
— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) November 11, 2025
For years, former Chicago Blackhawks superstar Denis Savard of Gatineau, Quebec was known for the Savardian Spin-o-rama. What we saw from Mcdavid here was electrifying. He completely spinned around Blue Jackets defender Denton Mateychuk to pull the Oilers within a goal. This isn’t a defenseman with a bad hockey resume. The Winnipeg native was the Blue Jackets’s first round pick, 12th overall, in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft and was on the NHL’s All-Rookie team in 2024-25.
Moments before McDavid scored his second of the game, Oilers forward Andrew Mangiapane gave the puck away which led to a Blue Jackets goal by Adam Fantilli. Then the hockey world saw this, to pull the Oilers within one again.
McDavid takes the pass in flight from Bouchard and zooms past the Jackets D and cuts across the goal mouth to score his 2nd.
4-3 #Oilers trail— Paul Almeida (@AzorcanGlobal) November 11, 2025
This time McDavid moved completely past Blue Jackets forward Kirill Marchenko and scored past Columbus goaltender Jet Greaves.
What McDavid brought to the Oilers was momentum. However, Edmonton seemed dead again when Jack Roslovic took a dumb high sticking penalty with two minutes and 18 seconds left in the third period. That is when Jake Walman scored a gigantic shorthanded goal to force overtime, and Roslovic got redemption by scoring the overtime winner. This was a huge win for Edmonton and it was all started by McDavid magic!
