Even in Toronto sports commentators are asking if this game is the most significant in the history of the NHL. In Montreal at a pop music concert last night, the fans took up a “Let’s Go Oilers” chance. A Toronto sports executive prodded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare Monday a national holiday.
The Edmonton Oilers have done what nothing else has done in years, their improbable comeback in the Final against the Florida Panthers uniting Canadians in the hope that a Canadian team will win the Stanley Cup for the first time this century.
Damien Cox, columnist, The Toronto Star
The most significant NHL game ever? Probably.
Canada disunited? From America that looks absurd. But, they are. Politically, linguistically, geographically. Sounds like America. I take it tonight is to Canadians what "Do you believe in miracles?" was to us lower 48'ers. Go "Panthers"!
