Kris Knoblauch snaps after Wild rout and puts his team on blast

Minnesota rolled into Rogers Place and took a 7-3 win on Saturday, snapping Edmonton’s three-game streak.

The Wild scored seven different goals, and five came unanswered after the first period.

Jarry got pulled in the second after five goals on 20 shots. Connor Ingram finished the night in relief.

Knoblauch didn’t hide behind the goalie switch. He put the spotlight on the rush chances and breakaways his team keeps handing out.

He even said it out loud, then immediately circled back to quality against, not volume.

Edmonton actually carried play for long stretches and still lost the plot. The shot clock ended 42-29 Oilers.

Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins gave them two different first-period leads. The Wild erased both on the man advantage.

Oilers fans know this feeling, the minute the game gets messy, the defending turns into chaos and the goalie becomes the headline.

This was not a "goalie lost it" night. This was five guys taking turns losing races, lanes, and assignments.

Knoblauch also pointed at offensive-zone penalties as a turning point, because those freebies let Minnesota settle in.

Connor McDavid still chipped in an assist, his 95th point, and Evan Bouchard hit 60 points on the season. That is great, but it can’t cover for odd-man rushes.

Jack Roslovic scored late, set up by German rookie Josh Samanski for his first NHL point. Samanski is 23 and undrafted, and that little bright spot deserved better.

Now the bar moves fast, because the Oilers finish the homestand Tuesday vs the Toronto Maple Leafs, then Wednesday vs the Calgary Flames. That is a brutal test if the details stay loose.