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“We’ve witnessed much worse,” the Edmonton Oilers remark after two losses.
You haven’t been paying attention if you believe the Edmonton Oilers are tense after dropping their opening two Stanley Cup Final games.

You haven’t been paying attention if you believe the Edmonton Oilers are tense after dropping their opening two Stanley Cup Final games.

More deep holes than a grave digger are under this team’s jurisdiction. However, they are still very much alive and well and are only one game away from changing the course of this series.

Goalie Stuart Skinner of the Oilers joked, “We’ve been in a lot worse situations,” following the team’s first practise back in Edmonton after losses of 3-0 and 4-1 in Florida.

“We’ve been pretty well the last place team in the league. We were down 3-2 against Vancouver. We’ve been in a lot of situations where you think you’re down and out and that’s when we play our best hockey, when the gun is being pointed at us.”

The fact the Oilers are one of the last two teams left standing in the NHL tells you how they respond to a crisis. I’ve made the Incredible Hulk reference about this team many times to illustrate how they sometimes need to be slapped around a little before the muscles start ripping through their shirt and they begin fighting back.

“We’ve been down and out lots this year,” said Connor McDavid. “We’ve been down and out lots throughout the playoffs. It’s nothing new to this group.”

How did they become so adept at dealing with it, at overcoming the adversity?

“It comes from a will to win,” said McDavid. “Our group wants to win as bad as I’ve seen. Not to say that other groups don’t want to win, not to say that Florida doesn’t want to win. But our group has willed our way out of situations and we have an opportunity to do that in this series as well.”

It’s having done it before, where it was from 31st place in the standings or from 3-2 and facing back-to-back elimination games against Vancouver, that gives the Oilers true belief that they can do it again against the Panthers.