The Edmonton Oilers are currently up 1-0 against the Vegas Golden Knights in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and game 2 of the series will be going tonight. For the Oilers this is a chance to get a good cushion against a team that has the skill and ability to potentially win the cup. For the Golden Knights a win tonight would reset the series and make it a best of 5.
What happened on Tuesday means nothing
While for Oilers fans we all look back to the game on Tuesday and have fond memories of how the latter part of that game played out, the Oilers completely dominated in pretty much ever aspect after the first period. For the Knights though they are going to try everything in their power to no recreate that same outcome.
This game is going to be a completely different game, these teams just played 60 minutes against each other, they have seen some of the plays and systems each other use and they have had the last 24 hours to make the appropriate changes to their own play in order to counter and get an advantage.
Oilers need to be ready at puck drop
With the game once again being in the "Fortress", the Oilers will need to come out and silent the home crowd. They did an excellent job of making the building really quiet after the first period in game one, but if they can get an early lead and silent the crowd early the Oilers should be able to cruise to a game 2 win.
The Golden Knights will not make it easy on the Oilers though; they are going to want to have a similar start that they did in game 1, the difference for them is they will need to play much better in the second half of the game if they want to even up this series at one. Going down 2-0 is something the Golden Knights do not want to especially with the series heading to Rogers Place where the Oilers have yet to lose these playoffs.
Hopefully the Oilers can keep playing the way they finished that game, it looked like they could do no wrong and that the Golden Knights had no answer. The Knights could not get the edge against any of the Oilers' lines. If the Oilers can keep up that style of gameplay, they will be heading back to Edmonton up 2 games to nothing.