Oilers Drake Caggiula, Connor McDavid and Benoit Pouliot react late in Tuesday night's 7-0 loss to the Sharks in San Jose. ( Marcio Jose Sanchez / The Associated Press )SAN JOSE, CALIF.—There’s a hockey adage that to win the Stanley Cup, an NHL team’s best players have to be just that. Burns, the NHL’s top scoring defenceman with 76 points in the regular season, had no goals or assists. “There was obvious desperation in their game, and then we put them on the power play way too often,” Oiler forward Mark Letestu said Wednesday. “We didn’t play them smart.” Letestu said the Oilers should expect the Sharks to feed off their success in Game 4.
Source: thestar April 20, 2017 00:11 UTC