The Oilers go home to Rogers Place on Sunday night with a chance to wrap up the Western Conference final in Game 6 against the top-seeded Dallas Stars.
Hundreds of thousands of Oilers fans have been flooding Edmonton’s downtown throughout the playoffs. They’ve been supporting the team at Ice District watch parties and nearby businesses. As Erik Bay tells us, the crowds have been good for business.Edmonton was right in the middle of a span of 10 consecutive seasons without even making the playoffs when Nugent-Hopkins was drafted.
“The crowd’s going to be buzzing for sure. It’s going to be loud, going to be exciting,” Nugent-Hopkins said.“For us, it’s about controlling the emotions, playing within ourselves and just trusting our game is good enough to get the job done.” “Everybody talks about momentum in a series. It shifts game to game. We were able to put together two good games,” Oilers captain Connor McDavid said.
Dallas, 6-2 on the road this postseason, has consecutive losses in these playoffs for the first time since being in a 0-2 hole in the opening round against Las Vegas.The Stars won that series in seven games against last year’s Stanley Cup champion, then needed six games against 2022 champion Colorado, which had swept Edmonton in the West final on the way to that title.
Edmonton has killed off 25 consecutive penalties over the past nine games. That includes all 11 against Dallas, five of those in the series opener.
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