Edmonton Oilers fans cheers their team before the start of first period of Game 6 of the Western Conference finals against the Dallas Stars in the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs in Edmonton, Sunday.
The Edmonton Oilers are back in the Stanley Cup final in a celebration reaching north of the Arctic Circle and drawing in fans from as far away as the Philippines.Edmonton Oilers fans cheer their team before the start of Game 6 of the Western Conference final against the Dallas Stars in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs in Edmonton on Sunday.
Edmonton Oilers fans arrive for Game 6 of the Western Conference finals of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs against the Dallas Stars in Edmonton on Sunday. It's the Oilers' first trip back to the Stanley Cup final since losing in a heartbreaking seven games to the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006. An unscientific street poll of Oilers jerseys indicates fans favour the blue and orange ones with few going in for the road whites. Most sport the prime numbers of the team's alpha players: 97 and 29 .
More recently, "Play La Bamba, baby!" became the catchphrase of the late Ben Stelter, a six-year-old Oilers superfan whose enthusiasm and support became an inspiration to star players such as McDavid.Stand on a street corner these days anywhere in Edmonton and in a few minutes a car will whiz by bearing a tiny flag with the Oilers logo snap-snapping in the breeze, struggling mightily to stay affixed to its plastic mast.
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