Afterwords: No Warm Welcome Back for Hitch

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY SportsThat’s the song Hitch thinks everyone in Dallas is singing, but it’s probably closer to something like this:

Any decent team should beat the Oilers when Connor McDavid isn’t playing:

Edmonton has been a pile o’ issues for a while now, and even their recent upturn since the Hitchcock hire hasn’t suddenly given them a quality blue line or a consistent scoring threat behind the top line. That said, the Stars didn’t take the game to the Oilers for most of this one or too many of the ones before it, which is either encouraging (since they’ve been picking up points in spite of that) or worrisome (because the other shoe has yet to drop).

For all that, the Oilers had their…