The Edmonton Oilers said they sold just half of the 250 concourse tickets that were made available for Game 1 against San Jose Sharks Wednesday night.
"At the end of the day it's still hockey", McDavid said.
The Sharks power play, ranked an anaemic 25th in the regular season at 16.7 per cent, was otherwise ineffective. His familiarity with the Sharks' roster could be an advantage for the Oilers in what will likely be an emotional series. Thornton has been skating in practice, and Sharks coach Peter DeBoer has said he expects Thornton to return at some point in the series. "You want to make sure that he doesn't get easy opportunities, odd man rushes - make sure he's coming through three or four guys". But it won't be hard to recognize when they're paying attention to details and playing their style of hockey. "You want anybody that's on the ice other than Connor McDavid carrying that puck from the most risky area of the ice, and that's the speed zone between the two blue lines".
Edmonton center Connor McDavid, the NHL's leading scorer in the regular season, had one assist in his playoff debut to extend his point streak to 15 games. Oilers coach Todd McLellan isn't going to give away any lineup changes but inserting Matt Hendricks is a possibility after David Desharnais played just 6:07 in Game 1... He also recognized the importance of the performance of players like Donskoi and Ward, as well Tomas Hertl and Karlsson.
PITTSBURGH - Marc-Andre Fleury, a last-minute starter after goaltender Matt Murray got hurt during the pregame warmup, stopped 31 of 32 shots as Pittsburgh beat Columbus in Game 1 of a first-round Eastern Conference playoff series at PPG Paints Arena. But San Jose battled back to forge a tie before Melker Karlsson scored 3:22 into overtime for the comeback victory.
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Dao lost two teeth and suffered a concussion and broken nose during the incident, his lawyer, Thomas Demetrio, said. He described the incident as a "system failure across various areas".
You better start warming up to the idea, and consider picking them in your Stanley Cup Playoffs Bracket Challenge. Sixteen of 18 San Jose skaters had at least one shot on net in Game 1. Pavelski lost control of it and chipped it to Mark Letestu, who found a streaking Kassian. McDavid has been brilliant with Four goals and four assists in fives game against the Sharks.
"We did a good job starting the game but we've got to finish", McDavid said. They were even worse in the neutral zone, where the Sharks controlled almost 62% of loose pucks, an area that is usually close to equal. "That will definitely allow us a chance".
"That first game there might have been a little bit of nerves there", said McDavid.
Could the Edmonton Oilers really reach the 2017 Stanley Cup Final? If a player like Couture happened to get in the way, then so be it.
The Sharks didn't waste time in overtime, with a wide open Melker Karlsson catching a cross ice pass from Captain Joe Pavelski to bury the victor and silence the raucous "Orange Crush" in Edmonton, leaving a stunned arena of fans sure that their heavily favored team would dominate a depleted Sharks roster. We saw the same out of Milan Lucic previous year in the first round against L.A. That stuff, you know what, you've got to play through that stuff.
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