Send Out The Smoke Patrol For This Rocket Dressed As Lord Stanley In Edmonton
You ever get the sense that sometimes fans want to win a championship more than the athletes actually playing the game?
The people of Edmonton are starved for another run at the Cup. Imagine having all those years of Gretzky and Messier, and then being stuck with whatever the shit happened to this franchise since 2006. It would be like going from eating ribeye and lobster for dinner every night to now whipping up some hamburger helper every night. Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly fine in a pinch. But you'd get sick of it after a while.
Fact of the matter here is that the fans in Edmonton want more. The fans in Edmonton need more. There's nothing more beautiful than the Stanley Cup. Absolute missile of a trophy. So you have this woman rolling up to Rogers Place dressed head-to-toe like Lord Stanley in an attempt to do everything in her power to will the fellas towards those 16 playoff wins to get the job done. And how do the Oilers repay her?
They go down 3-1 heading into the 1st intermission.
Granted, they were able to climb back and send the game to overtime. But it's win or lose in the playoffs. There's no being thankful for at least picking up a point. And in overtime, it was Anze Kopitar showing all of Edmonton why he has 2 Cups to his name.
A series doesn't start until a team wins on the road. We've officially got a series here in the Gretzky Bowl.