EDMONTON
Ten years is a long time between hockey playoff games. With the Canadian exchange rate, it’s an even longer time. But until Wednesday night, that was indeed the length of the Edmonton Oilers’ postseason drought.
Look it up. Until the puck dropped for Game 1 against the Sharks here in Northern Alberta, the Oilers last previous postseason faceoff had occurred on June 19, 2006, a Game 7 loss to Carolina at the Stanley Cup Final. In the 3,929 days between that occasion and Wednesday’s contest, as the Oilers stayed home every spring, the Sharks had participated in 110 playoff games.