EDMONTON — Hours before the puck was set to drop Monday to decide the Stanley Cup, a wave of Edmonton Oilers fans overwhelmed the city's downtown, sluicing merrily through sidewalks, streets and patio bars to the continuous primal honk of car horns.
EDMONTON — Hours before the puck was set to drop Monday to decide the Stanley Cup, a wave of Edmonton Oilers fans overwhelmed the city's downtown, sluicing merrily through sidewalks, streets and patio bars to the continuous primal honk of car horns.
Monday's game against the Florida Panthers was taking place 5,000 kilometres and two time zones away in Sunrise, a community just outside Miami. In St. Albert, on Edmonton’s outskirts, residents of a seniors home have been posting TikTok fan videos of them dancing in Oilers jerseys and face paint, garnering tens of thousands of views.
"We cheer them on every single game of the season," said Derrick DeMone, an Oilers fan in Sydney, N.S., who planned to watch at home at home with his sons.DeMone's home is something of a shrine to his favourite team, with Oilers jerseys, blankets and pillows decorating the inside and several Oilers flags flying outside.
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