Last night, the Blues did something no team has ever done vs. the Oilers' Big three, which was to limit them all to a total of zero shots on goal. You think the Oilers have had some bad starts? The last-place St. Louis Blues were in a full-on nosedive <a href='https://ca.news.yahoo.com/yup-guessed-edmonton-oilers-lost-042648596.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKRm_YiY_b6qNnpfAOyHFhIKwqZLhra5ZXKlQFOHSRscNHTJJATKa34wBQBTPpZfB1gobbGwj8AYw2etFo1wK2iGrrllK3USyxVZ_jF5SNPI9EE8nBpDtn1pYri-Vy4HgZ8GLDTLhsGtYORqfsElNj0SKZDB49knv8Ls2TCtcTgP' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>heading into Monday's game with Edmonton</a>: 3-7-2 on the season and winless in their previous seven. But slumps don't last forever, and you had to know the Blues would eventually break through, and, given the Oilers' inconsistency this season, you kind of feared it would be against them. Sure enough, it was. Edmonton took a 2-0 lead on goals from Jack Roslovic and Andrew Mangiapane, only to collapse again in the late stages. Two St. Louis goals in the final four minutes of the second period tied it up, and when Evan Bouchard lost his man late in the third, Pius Suter buried the winner to hand the Oilers another gut-punch 3-2 loss. It's becoming a pattern. <a href='https://www.hockeylatest.com/nhl-team/edmonton-oilers/mattias-ekholm-sends-clear-message-to-oilers-fans-after-slow-start' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Edmonton has now blown three multi-goal leads this season</a>, against Calgary, New York, and now St. Louis. <h3>Not only do the Oilers have goalies who are struggling, but now their star players are not shooting the puck</h3> And while defensive lapses are part of the story, another glaring issue has emerged: the lack of shots from the team's biggest stars. Per NHL insider Jason Gregor, Monday marked the first time in 727 combined games, 631 regular season and 96 playoff games, that Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins all played together and failed to record a single shot on goal. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/JasonGregor/status/1985777354229334213'><div style='border:1px solid #CCCCCC;border-radius:10px;padding:20px;width:300px;'>Loading from Twitter ...</div></a></blockquote></div> <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/BR_OpenIce/status/1985790529259323464'><div style='border:1px solid #CCCCCC;border-radius:10px;padding:20px;width:300px;'>Loading from Twitter ...</div></a></blockquote></div> It was an exclamation point on the Oilers' growing struggles to generate consistent offense. If there is a silver lining, it's that November still affords time to recover. For a team with championship expectations, however, moral victories and almost efforts are wearing thin and fast.