The Edmonton Oilers Must Win The Next Two Games To Move On To Round 2
from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,
Hockey’s most staunch cliché decrees that you’ve got to play the whole 60 to win in the playoffs.
The Edmonton Oilers tried to win a playoff game on about 15 minutes of hockey that you — that they — would consider adequate for the occasion, and in the end they got exactly what they deserved. And so did the Los Angeles Kings.
Adrian Kempe scored at 1:12 of an overtime session to give L.A. a 5-4 victory and a 3-2 series lead over an Edmonton team for whom the moment appeared to simply be too big in Game 5.
“We haven't brought our best game yet,” said Oilers captain Connor McDavid who carried his mates to a third period comeback with a goal and two primary assists on the night. “They’re a good team… so it'll take a complete game to beat them. And we haven’t brought that yet.”
Was McDavid inferring that too many of his teammates were no-shows? We would doubt that’s what he meant, though he’d be spot on if he had.
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