This nugget was buried in the middle of a breathless account of the Oiler’s amazing performance in the Edmonton Journal:
All of the bad things that had people worrying during the regular season showed up and burned them badly.
They started slowly and dug a hole. They fell into a long second-period lapse (four shots). They made the big mistakes to give up goals against. Skinner gave up four goals on the first 17 shots.
And Evan Bouchard’s habit of burying his team with careless mistakes cost them two goals in three minutes and ultimately led to the defeat.
Kind of the perfect summary of all that is no good about Edmonton.
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