‘Nobody’s Got Anything to Hang Their Heads About’: Oiler Fans Already Looking Ahead to Next Year

For Edmonton Oiler fans who had travelled with their team along its rollercoaster season, the end of the journey in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals was painful, but there’s always next year. “Devastated,” said Tina Duncan of Edmonton. A self-described Oilers “superfan,” she attended the watch party at Rogers Place Arena, only to see the Oilers lose to the Florida Panthers by 2-1 after a hard-fought Game 7 of the series. “Everybody was hanging their heads low,” she said. “It was kind of depressing walking out of the arena. The cops were all there for crowd control, but nobody was doing anything … everybody was just walking to their vehicles and going home.”...