Edmonton Oilers- Carolina Hurricanes
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Edmonton Oilers- Carolina Hurricanes
Best of seven
The most expected series on ice started on Monday June 5. The Stanley
Cup just began and sports betting fans are very excited to watch and
bet on this series. The Edmonton Oilers after winning to the Angels 4-1
got there pass to the finals; in the Eastern Conference, the Hurricanes
won it 4-3 after a very even series.
Stanley Cup finals game 1, left the Oilers in a position they
couldn't expect, after a 3-0 lead; things turned around for them
heavily. Also, starting goalie Dwayne Roloson will not play the rest of
the series, after suffering an injury that coach Craig MacTavish
described "as bad as Radek (Dvorak)." Dvorak was injured May 8 and
missed eight games. This injury is an important loss for Edmonton and
will definitively make a difference in the rest of the series. Roloson
was injured at 14:06 of the third period, with the score tied, 4-4,
when Oilers defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron crushed puck-carrying
Hurricanes forward Andrew Ladd into Roloson and the right goal post.
Among sports betting fans the first game was surprising...Edmonton
leaded 1-0 in the first period, what could we think; obviously it was
not the end for Carolina. But the Oilers ended at a certain point of
the game leading 3-0; what seemed to be Edmonton's first victory.
Carolina, who lost the cup in 2002 against the Red Wings, could not be
beaten like that, not at home. They ended winning the game 5-4 with not
such an outstanding performance. "I'm almost confused what to feel,
honestly," said Peter Laviolette, the Carolina coach. "I don't think
you will find anybody in our locker room that is real happy with the
way we played," said Laviolette. "We've got to be a lot better if we
are going to be successful in a seven-game series. We are better than
that. We just didn't show it tonight."
Edmonton's MacTavish said: "The important thing for us as a team is
to bounce back and I know we can. I feel very confident that we can
bounce back from it. I've been in this situation before." "I felt
that we played a solid game tonight and we can recover from this. I
just passed on to Rolly that, job well done, and it's up to us to take
it from here and we're capable of doing that."
After a long road to the Stanley Cup, both teams are aware that 4 games
must be won in order to get the championship and it will not be easy
for either team. Edmonton whose last appearance in a Stanley Cup Final
was back in 1990; are letting Roloson aside and concentrating on a
series that is going to be harder after this injury. The Hurricanes are
aware such bad periods played as game 1, could not happen again. They
can't afford to play like that if they want to win the cup.
This series are exciting, sportsbooks odds are incredibly interesting
and games ahead are going to show much more than expected...this series
are burning.