Last night the die-hard Oilers took one more long, confident stride back from the brink. Remember when they were down three games to one? Well, they don't seem to. Because now there's just one game left, and it's winner take all. Two teams enter! One team leaves (with the Cup, while the other leaves disappointed)!
Which of these five predictions, had I made them all, would you have found most difficult to believe?
a. Oilers win, forcing Game 7
b. Erik Cole returns, despite coach Laviolette's repeated insistence that he was done for the season
c. "Juicy" Jussi Markannen posts a shutout (and gets his first back-to-back wins since December)
d. Three separate "too many men" penalties
e. In an
otherwise sober CP recap, the Oilers are said to have "dished out bodychecks like a chef giving out hotdogs at a school picnic."