With the season on the line for Oilers, Game 7 vs. Kings is 'what dreams are made of'

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Sometimes life gives us special moments out of the blue. Other times, like a Game 7 at home on a Saturday night in May, you see the moment coming. SportsnetSpec tells us what to expect for Oilers-Kings.

have not yet found their way out of the disappointment business. But at the same time, they ARE back.

Well, it’s five years later, but here we are. Better late than never, it may be the only time McDavid ever did anything slow on a hockey rink. After losing Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final in 2006, Shawn Horcoff gave us one of our favourite quotes in a long career of thought collecting.After a Game 7 in Dallas in 1997, overtime hero Todd Marchant – who days before we had written could somehow not put the puck in the ocean, even if he were shooting off the end of a pier – was waiting for our arrival in the post-game dressing room at old Reunion Arena.Touche.

“You want it so bad,” 20-year vet Rod Brind’Amour said back in ’06, when the Carolina Hurricanes had become his last shot at a ring. “Not just for yourself, but for the guy sitting beside you. For your dad. Your kids. There are so many people you’re thinking about who are pulling for you. It’s exhausting.”

In ’06, after Edmonton had cleaned out Carolina in Game 6 at Rexall Place, it was almost impossible to envision a loss in Game 7. Alas, the Oilers lost 2-1.

 

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Spec Love to see the team with so-called best players being beaten by a rookie team. Especially there is a beloved Kane by every one on the lineups, expecting oilers will be burried at game 7 by the good citizen.

Spec Yes it does if you win

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