It's fine and dandy for the Edmonton Oilers to look like a different team in the regular season. But until they bring that improved form to playoff action, questions will remain about this team's ability to win when it matters most. (SportsnetSpec)
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They’re right in the middle of it, that phobia that strikes a team that has figured out how to win between October and April, but has not a clue what to do come May. “I think you want your team to play with emotion. You want controlled emotions,” begins Jay Woodcroft, the latest in a long line of dads behind the wheel of this 1978, wood-panelled station wagon. “We gave up a chance 11 seconds into the game off just a kind of a broken play, broken coverage. And then we found ourselves on the penalty kill immediately . You want to make sure you’re playing toward your identity and your structure. That’s what’s got us to this point.
A full house of screaming, orange-clad crazies. A coast-to-coast audience ready to watch a team prove itself on the national stage. An opponent ripe for exploitation, with four defencemen playing their first career NHL playoff game and the great Drew Doughty in the press box, unable to play after wrist surgery.As it turned out, the moment was too big for the Oilers. Which is a tad disturbing.The structure they had mastered over the previous 10 weeks disappeared.
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