I actually don't think the Oilers were that lucky this time. The Canucks were just absent for most of it. Which, when you think about it is an indictment on the Oilers as a team to be put on the ropes by a team playing half dead/MIA.
Canucks may have taken the lowest shot total by a team over a 7 game series in the second round, and yet they did a lot of damage with the shots they did take.
The Oilers goalies are way too porous and probably won't be up to the task of a good team showing up that had 2x as many 20 goal scorers as they did.
I'd be claiming "house money" too, knowing what's likely to follow.
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