Twenty players on Edmonton’s roster weren’t alive the last time the Oilers won a Stanley Cup. And many of them were in grade school the last time the team made the playoffs.
So although they go into Sunday’s game with the Anaheim Ducks trailing the best-of-seven playoff series 3-2, they’ve already accomplished more than a decade’s worth of Oilers teams. And they have a chance to accomplish more since a win would bring the series back to Anaheim on Wednesday for a deciding Game 7.
In each of the last four years, the Ducks have led a playoff series, 3-2, only to lose Game 6 on the road and Game 7 at home.