What an Opening!!!

On May 4, 1985 the Campbell Conference finals opened at the Northland Coliseum in Edmonton, Alberta. The Oilers hosted the Chicago Blackhawks. They scored 4 goals in the first and third periods and 3 goals in the second period in tying a post season scoring record. They had 3 players who scored two goals each, Charlie Huddy, Glenn Anderson and Juri Kurry. The Oilers outshot the Blackhawks 42-28. The Blackhawks would recover and put on a brave face for the remainer of the series, before yielding to the Oilers in 6 games. The Great One Wayne Gretzky and his mates would go on to take out the Flyers in five games and win their second consecutive Stanley Cup. Not many teams score 11 goals in a single game and very few have ever scored that many in a playoff game. The thing that I find amazing though is when one team will score a lot of points in a single game in the post season and then lose the series because they do not score for the rest of the series. That did not happen in this case, however you would be surprised how often it does happen, just ask the 1960 New York Yankees. Tomorrow we will look at a very slow start to a soccer season.