The Edmonton Oilers kept a positive attitude postgame after blowing a 4-1 lead in their Game 1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday.
The Oilers lost the opening game of their second-round series 5-4 after allowing four unanswered goals, with the Canucks taking over with three goals in a five-minute stretch to take the lead in the third period. Edmonton was held to just four shots in the final frame after scoring four goals on 14 shots in the first two periods.
“I don’t think you divide that game into the first half and the second half,” Knoblauch said. “The first half we had a huge lead at 4-1, but do I think we were that much better than them? made some pretty big saves. You think about the breakaway, then we had a power play and scored a goal, but 5-on-5, I don’t think we were much better than them.
“I think it was more the timing of the goals. We know it’s going to be a great atmosphere in here, and it’s going to be that for us at home as well,” Oilers defencemansaid. “It’s just tough when they get the go-ahead goal with four minutes left. That’s kind of when you have to throw a Hail Mary at them.
“They’re a good team and they were doing everything they could to come back and we were doing everything we could to hold on to the lead,” McDavid said. “That happens in the playoffs, you try to hold on to a lead and sometimes you’re maybe a little too passive.
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