Over the past couple of weeks, Duncan Wilde has dealt with a flooded basement in his home, a daughter moving to the west coast and a gum infection that moved into his blood stream and left him with a severely swollen knee.

When it comes to soccer, however, the Oakville Blue Devils head coach is feeling no pain.

Two games into their inaugural League1 Ontario campaign, the Blue Devils not only sit in a four-way tie atop the league standings with a 2-0 mark, they haven’t even surrendered a goal. Oakville followed up a season-opening 5-0 rout of the Sanjaxx Lions with a 2-0 win Sunday in Vaughan over a Woodbridge Strikers squad that finished second in League1 last year with a 10-3-3 record.

“Yeah, a little bit,” Wilde said when asked if he is surprised by his team’s strong start.

“I really didn’t know as much as I’d like to have known about the league (going in) because it’s our first time. You know about the coaches and the players but until you play yourself, you don’t know (how you will fare).”

Eduardo Filice scored Oakville’s first goal Sunday, converting on a penalty kick in the 22nd minute after the Strikers were carded for a foul away from the play, and Anthony Doran added another goal shortly before halftime. Daniel Voci, who backstopped Sheridan College to a Canadian college championship last season, recorded the shutout in his first League1 start.

“Karman (Saini, Oakville’s starting keeper in the opener) hadn’t done anything wrong, I just wanted to get both goalies into the league,” said Wilde, who also inserted Adrian Butters and Al James into the Blue Devils backfield due to the unavailability of two opening-day starters.

“Three of our back five didn’t play (in the first game). It was great to get a win while getting three more people onto the field… We defended very well in the second half.”

Roster turnover is something Wilde will have to deal with throughout the season. Butters will leave the team in a couple of weeks to play for the Guyana senior national team, and Filice is headed to Europe this week to pursue other soccer opportunities. All teams in League1 will soon receive an influx of players returning home from university, and most of those players will be gone again by the time the season winds down in October.

“It’s a long season,” Wilde said. “The good thing is that it’s just one game per week to work on things and put things into place.”