Oilers Punch Ticket to Second Round; Await Vancouver or Nashville

The Edmonton Oilers managed to shut out their first spherical collection towards the Los Angeles Kings in 5 video games, establishing a second spherical showdown with both the Vancouver Canucks or Nashville Predators. 

Edmonton dealt with Los Angeles, exhibiting on this collection that they may win video games in a number of methods, each with their regular offensive outbursts and a 1-0 shutout win in Game 4.

It’s the third straight 12 months by which the Oilers and Kings met up within the first spherical, and the third 12 months in a row the Oilers have allotted with the Kings.

There’s so much to be mentioned this offseason about the place the Kings go from right here, as their mixture of final period’s getting older core and their new wave’s spectacular younger group have them at an deadlock, however the Oilers are a recreation or two away from understanding their second spherical matchup.

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NHL Playoff Update: Oilers to Face Winner of Canucks, Predators

The Vancouver Canucks at the moment maintain a 3-2 lead of their greatest of seven collection with the Nashville Predators, because the Preds went to Vancouver for Game 5 and stored their season alive with a win after the Canucks completely stole one within the Music City in Game 4.

Both matchups are attractive, however the potential of Vancouver closing it out in Friday evening’s Game 6 and establishing a Western Canada showdown between the 2 historic rivals is clearly an thrilling one. 

Nashville, too, could be an attention-grabbing matchup, if not as a lot attributable to geographical causes, however the Predators mix of protection, goaltending, and well timed scoring would current a extra superior model of the problem the Oilers simply confronted from Los Angeles.

The Canucks haven’t had as simple of a time with Nashville as they could have anticipated, with the Predators outplaying them on a few events and forcing a lower-event tempo on the Pacific Division champions.

Nashville might be rockin tonight because the Predators look to pressure a Game 7, and the Oilers would most likely be simply high-quality with each of their potential opponents coming into their collection as battered as attainable.

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