Next, regarding attribution. Oilers are not 1-1 in series due to lack of scoring. Before last nights games there were 3 Oilers. McD, Hyman, Drai in topten playoff production. The Oilers had scored 11 goals spread across two games. This should get you wins. McD, Drai, Hyman are running the show, and basically giving Kings all they can handle. Its incomplete also to just look at the EV contributions as these players are destroying LA on the PP and Drai is also critical in winning ownzone faceoffs when LA is on PP. The oilers are wrecking LA on special teams and these players are all around that.
Its time for two goal Skinner to make an entrance into the playoffs. Saving that, Pickard. Thats what will take the series. Having to score 5-6 goals to W every night might start to look more like 1982 again.
Get some stops, get a lead and LA are a completely different club. Let LA frontrun and you spend more energy trying to get the goals back (and make more mistakes) Critical in game 3 to initiate, start early, get the lead and get some stops. Get the crowd into this game and LA pumped and it could be trouble.
meh. There were moments where I even wondered if the Oilers subconsciously were doing some kind of cliff edge stuff to see what the resilience looked like. Not intentional, but I wonder if it just happened and that its congenital to this team that it needs huge urgency to get rolling. Not convinced this is just a great thing. Its the kind of thing that results in the Oilers always having more difficult than necessary seasons and more games played in playoffs.