Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers fights for the puck against Quinn Hughes of the Vancouver Canucks during the third period in Game One of the Second Round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on May 8.Before the playoffs began, Vancouver Canucks president Jim Rutherford reflected on the rise of his young team and looked back at the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes, the first squad he helped lead to a Stanley Cup title.
Instead, the Canucks are, for now, up 1-0 on the Oilers in an all-Canadian second-round series, after an unlikely comeback on Wednesday night in Vancouver. An at-times-wobbly Arturs Silovs, Vancouver’s third-string rookie in net, was able to maintain composure after the Canucks fell behind 4-1 before, late in the game, the team
That includes the coach. Tocchet has won Cups in Pittsburgh as a player and assistant coach but this is new for him, too, at the helm behind the bench, one of the final eight teams. And he’s not playing it safe. He could have picked backup goalie Casey DeSmith, a reliable veteran, to start the series. Tocchet chose the rookie. He could have pulled the rookie when it was 4-1. Yet Tocchet stuck by Silovs.
How Edmonton responds in Game 2 on Friday night in Vancouver – and how the Canucks manage their home-ice advantage and sense of momentum – will go a long way to shaping the outcome of this series. For Edmonton, despite questions of Leon Draisaitl’s health, all eyes are on Connor McDavid – even more than usual.
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