The EdmontonOilers managed to turn a 2-0 deficit into a mucky, dirty win on HockeyDay. SportsnetSpec explains why that bodes well for Edmonton down the road.
, the Oilers fought one out in the alley with a Predators team that has mastered games like this over the years.
Mike Smith, who was stellar versus the Preds, suddenly hasn’t lost a game in regulation since Dec. 20 . He’s been around long enough to know hockey’s change of seasons, as games turn colour — to black and blue — with the playoffs approaching. “We expected that coming in,” Nugent-Hopkins said, “and then really understood it once the game got going. It wasn’t going to be fancy or pretty. We had to keep it simple.In Gary Bettman’s National Hockey League, where parity — no, competitive balance — rules the day, March happens in February. We used to get pseudo playoff games like this one for the final three weeks of the regular season. Now we get them starting in about the second week of February.
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