The seventh game in a best-of-seven series in the Stanley Cup Final. You can't take it further than that. The Edmonton Oilers made an audacious attempt to become the first Eighth-seeded team in the NHL to win the Stanley Cup, but were unfortunately not able to beat the Carolina Hurricanes one last time.
That was tough to take.
It hurt to see the Oilers lose the Cup. It hurt bad. And I guess I'm happy for the players and staff of the Hurricanes for getting the ultimate hockey prize, but man I am not happy to see it go to the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. Game seven was about the second or third night in the entire regular and post season that the RBC Center in Raleigh was sold out. People don't care about hockey down there, no more than Edmonton cares about the Cracker Cats (I'm surprised I even knew their name).
Anyways, enough complaining. True, it hurt like multiple bee-stings to the hands and face, but the Oilers fought amazingly and deserve extra-large amounts of praise. They played hard and took on everything that was thrown at them. They beat the best team in the league to start it all off, and they battled through snipers, hot goalies, and even the flu to get to the Final. And even after being down 2-0 and then 3-1, they didn't stop and fought all the way to game 7. It was an outstanding achievment.
There's always next year. Even though sometimes it felt like we got to the Final on a one-in-a-million chance, and it was this year or never, it appears more clearly now that the Finals are over that the Oilers will have an amazing team next year, who will be all the more capable of taking the Cup home to Edmonton.
GO OILERS GO and thanks for an OUTSTANDING season!
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