Edmonton Oilers Fans Crowd Downtown, Chanting and Honking Ahead of Stanley Cup Game 7

EDMONTON—Hours before the puck was set to drop Monday to decide the Stanley Cup, a wave of Edmonton Oilers fans overwhelmed the city’s downtown, sluicing merrily through sidewalks, streets and patio bars to the continuous primal honk of car horns. They came mainly in shorts and Oilers jerseys, happily baking in the summer heat amid the pounding of drums and random chants of “Let’s Go Oilers!” while police attempted to keep some from spilling into traffic. The city that has not won a Stanley Cup since 1990 was hoping to turn back the clock to 1942 – the last and only time an NHL team came back from three games down in the final to sweep the final four....