Canada gets its second team through to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs as the Edmonton Oilers defeat the first place Detroit Redwings in game six.Looked like the Oilers were going to throw it away after they slept right through the first two periods of the game, heading into the third period down 2-0. But local boy Fernando Pisani put in two quick goals for Edmonton at the start of the period, evening it all up. Detroit came back and scored one, but Edmonton tied it up again on the powerplay. Just when it started to look like overtime was going to be necessary, Ales Hemsky put one more in for the Oilers with just 1:03 left on the clock. It was too late then for the Red Wings to come back and Edmonton advances to the second round for the first time is 8 years.
They now join the Ottawa Senators, Colorado Avalanche, New Jersey Devils and San Jose Sharks in the next round.
2 comments:
You're quick, man, I'll give ya that. The game is barely over and you're blogging about it. Anyway, this brings up a very interesting question: Will the spirit of Gretzky, Messier, and Coffey live on? Only round two shall tell.
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Rudy
I try my best to stay on top of things.
Round two should definatly be interesting, especially if the Flames can manage to finish off the ducks on Wednesday. It'd be great to see a battle of Alberta, but at the same time it would suck to have to choose between the Oilers reliving the glory days of the Gretzky/Messier/Fuhr team and Calgary being just plain awesome.
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