Oilers want more shots

Edmonton isn't looking to tweak approach, just turn up the heat on goal

- STEVEN SANDOR

Edmonton's Connor McDavid said the Oilers can't count on getting a lot of looks - they just need to convert on the ones they get.

Florida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky has turned away 50 of 51 shots through the first two games of the Stanley Cup final.

The vaunted Edmonton Oilers’ power-play hasn’t scored in seven opportunities.

If these trends continue, it will be an awfully short final series that could end as early as Saturday night.

But as the scene shifts to Edmonton for Thursday’s Game 3, the Oilers don’t feel Bobrovsky is in their heads — or that they have to make a lot of tweaks on special teams. What they need is to get more pucks to the net.

“Nope, there’s no frustration,” said winger Zach Hyman, who leads the playoffs with 14 goals, but, like most of his teammates, was snakebit through the first two games in Florida. “We’ve had a lot of looks. A couple of posts. What can you do? We’ll keep going at it.

“(The power-play) is pretty proven over the course of the playoffs, over the course of the year, over how many years it’s been together. We don’t get frustrated.”

“I thought in Game 1, on a couple of our powers we had some really good looks,” added forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. “We obviously weren’t able to break them.”

The Oilers hit the iron twice in their final power play of Game 2, so there is a feeling that they’re close — or just plain unlucky.