Good to see you're already conceding.
I'm not conceding, I think the Canucks are going to win, and I always have. I said Nucks in 7 in the series poll and have been very active on HF/Twitter talking about how the Canucks will likely win this series. Their depth is far superior to Edmontons and playing your top 5 players 23-29 minutes a night doesn't bode well for the last 3 games in a series when they're all separated by a days rest each. Plus, your historic powerplay won't be as much of a factor when the whistles get put away.
That doesn't change that the Oilers have always expected to win this series. They were expected to stomp the Canucks, and many "bright" hockey minds were saying sweeps or a 5 game series in favour of Edmonton. Even after we won game one the Oilers brass were talking about how they lost the game, rather than them being beaten. Every mind in their organization knows that the pressure is on them to win. Hell, we even had threads saying this was the easiest road to the conference finals in recent memory for the Oilers. Not to mention you're playing a 23 year old third string goalie.
Make no mistake, if the Oilers lose then this will be considered a massive choke on their end, largely because one of Bouchard or Draisaitl are gone after next season unless you can find someone to take on the albatrosses of Nurse and Campbell. Even then, you'll be the next Maple Leafs. Vancouver's core is entering their prime, and with Myers' contract coming off the books and a Mikheyev buyout incoming, I don't doubt that we'll be better next year than this year. We're gaining experience for the rest of our contention window, which I imagine will be the remainder of Demko's contract.
My point is that if you somehow make it past us, you'll have to learn how to hold onto your leads because you won't get them often against a juggernaut in Colorado or Dallas. Even then, I say it's a short series.
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