Ed Willes: No buzz outside bubble, no crowds in it, but players embrace all the weirdness
This was the setting for a minute-long video of Elias Pettersson shooting baskets which is currently up on the Canucks’ website. Pettersson actually has a nice left-handed stroke but, come on, the video doesn’t show him missing once.
As for the media, their existence isn’t any more eventful. Like the players it’s hotel, rink, work, hotel, Netflix, rinse, repeat. After the Blackhawks forced Oilers starter Mike Smith into a couple of early saves the Hawks took a too-many-men penalty and McDavid converted on the ensuing power play. Again this is the post-season, this is Edmonton and it’s McDavid and that combination should have produced a more significant response than random high fives on the Oilers’ bench.
This didn’t make Oilers head coach Dave Tippett happy. Neither did this: in the history of best-of-five, the team that wins the first game has won 68 of the 83 series.
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