The Oilers were about to lose another game in a bad way, but something happened in the team's locker room during the intermission that changed everything. For a while there, the Edmonton Oilers seemed set to have an underwhelming evening on Tuesday. The <a href='https://www.hockeylatest.com/nhl-team/edmonton-oilers/oilers-set-for-emotional-tuesday-night-in-edmonton-along-with-a-major-jersey-reveal' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Utah Mammoth took over the first period of action at Rogers Place</a>, jumping out to an early 2-0 lead and leaving the Oilers visibly agitated and flat-footed. Then came a shocking sequence of events that served as a reminder of why this veteran team is so deadly. Only minutes into the second period, Edmonton turned the script around. Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl spearheaded the attack on an offense that exploded for five goals in the period, a 2-0 deficit turning into a 5-3 advantage. McDavid had two, with Draisaitl, Ike Howard, Mattias Ekholm, and Ty Emberson adding the rest. A second left on the clock, an empty-netter sealed a 6-3 comeback win. Between periods, something was different, and it was not merely the attitude. Players intimated that a few choice phrases were spoken in the locker room following that abysmal first frame. <h3>There was a spark in the Oilers locker room in between periods that changed it all</h3> For Ryan Nugent-Hopkins' part, it wasn't head coach Kris Knoblauch pouring the gasoline on the fire so much as the players demanding more of themselves. <a href='https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/oilers-intermission-pep-talk-helped-win' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Ekholm then confessed the team simply collectively decided to wake up.</a> We kinda needed a bit of a wake-up in between the first and the second, we had that a bit, Ryan Nugent Hopkins said. Knobber coming in, talking about what we did in the first, and just talking amongst ourselves, give ourselves a little kick in the butt. You know, Knobber, his demeanour is pretty calm most of the time He wasn't screaming at us by any means, but we needed to be better. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/EdmontonOilers/status/1983392897623044477'><div style='border:1px solid #CCCCCC;border-radius:10px;padding:20px;width:300px;'>Loading from Twitter ...</div></a></blockquote></div> Everybody felt enough was enough, Ekholm said. I haven't liked my game at all the last five, six games, I don't think many guys in here have. It was coming to a point where we needed to start putting our work boots on We found our game, and that's gotta be the standard going forward. Hopefully, we learned from this tonight. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/EdmontonOilers/status/1983401508386550034'><div style='border:1px solid #CCCCCC;border-radius:10px;padding:20px;width:300px;'>Loading from Twitter ...</div></a></blockquote></div> After another slow beginning to a season, this is Edmonton's strongest October since Ekholm arrived on the roster in 2023. The veteran defenseman grinned and intimated maybe that a little patience should be extended to the fans, after all, these same slow-starting Oilers advanced to the Stanley Cup finals two years running. If Tuesday's show is any indication, Edmonton might finally be at the doorstep of discovering the complete 60-minute effort that has thus far been elusive for them, and when they do, everyone else in the league will be paying attention.