Milan Lucic gives Oliers 2-0 lead, brings the house down
By Kareem Gantt
Milan Lucic’s power play goal gives the Oilers a 2-0 1st Period lead and Rogers Place goes bananas.
Milan Lucic’s power play goal juiced up what was already and electric crowd at Rogers Place.
Did you hear that crowd when he scored his goal to give the Edmonton Oilers a 2-0 lead in Game 1 of their first-round matchup against the San Jose Sharks? Crazy, we tell you … sheer crazy.
Oiler fans have been waiting a long time for the playoffs, and now that Stanley Cup fever has hit Oil Country, it is a safe bet to assume that Rogers Place will be among one of the louder arenas in the playoffs.
It sure sounded like it when Lucic scored his goal.
The poor Sharks probably didn’t know what they were getting into. Or, maybe they did and they underestimated the Oilers as a good, but inexperienced, squad that they would pounce on with their mountains of playoff experience.
If that was their thinking, then Lucic is quickly making the boys from California regret that thinking.
Lucic already had an assist on Edmonton’s first goal of the night by Oscar Kelfbom, but it was his Power Play goal at the 17:07 mark of the 1st period that sent Oiler fans both inside Rogers Place and in the bars and houses across Edmonton and around the world into a frenzy.
Oh, and, did we mention that on Lucic’s Power Play goal, Connor McDavid, the newly proclaimed “Great One,” recorded his first point of the playoffs in his young, but an electrifying career?
Maybe the Oilers are destined? Who knows?
The last time the Oilers were in the playoffs (2006), they were the eighth seed and made it all the way to the Stanley Cup Final. 12 years later, they don’t have to start out on the road, but they’re still considered underdogs.
But, as Milan Lucic is displaying so far, no one should dare underestimate Oil Country.