For the Hockey Holy Grail for the second time in a row, the same rival

Both NHL finalists are known. In the grand finale, the Canadian and American team, the West of the West, Edmonton Oilers, against the champion of East Florida Panthers, will compete for the Hockey Holy Grail, winning the first Stanley Cup last year with 4: 3 last year.

Florida eliminated Carolina on the way to the grand final with 4: 1. The second finalist was known to Davi after Slovenian time, when oilmen from Edmonton in the fifth game of the West Conference Final celebrated 6: 3 and Dallas Stars in their Hall of the American Airlines Center for the second year in a row from a further game, this time with 4: 1 in victories.

Oilers have won the Stanley Cup five times so far, most recently in the 1989/90 season. Since 1993, when Montreal Canadiens members have been celebrated in this championship, no Canadian team has repeated success.

Florida, who will play for the third consecutive season in the NHL League final, won the title last year, extending the decades of drought Canada in the Stanley Cup.

Connor McDavid at the decisive match of the Western Conference finals, Edmonton took back to the championship series with a goal and a pass when the Oilers in Dallas carried out an early attack on which the Texas team did not find the answer.

Corey Perry, Mattias Jarmark, Jeff Skinner, Evander Kane and Kasperi Kasperi They also shook the Edmonton net.

“They are a bad team. Obviously, this will be their third consecutive finale, it is a special team, and we are also a special group, « said McDavid.

« It will be fun, I couldn’t want a better opportunity than to compete with the team that beat us last year. »

The promotion of Edmonton to the finals also increases the possibility of another politically burdened sporting event between teams from Canada and the United States during the boiling tensions between North American neighbors.

Although both clubs have a mixture of hockey players of different nationalities on their acting lists, sports competitions between Canada and USA teams have a political inclination since the US president’s election Donald Trumpwho promised to connect Canada and regularly mark the country as 51.

In February, the national hockey team Canada and the USA met in two very competitive matches in the four nations tournament.

In the first nine seconds, three fights occurred in the introductory showdown. McDavid scored a winning goal for Canada in the finals, then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau But he wrote on social networks, « You can’t take our country – and you can’t take our game. »

When this time McDavid in Dallas accepted laurel Clarence S. Campbell Bowlrecognition for the best Western part of the NHL League, he was happy to put it in his hands.

« I think it’s quite obvious, » McDavid said about what has been different from the end of last year’s West. « At the time, we were saying, ‘Don’t touch this last year, you won’t win’. Touch this this year, I hope we win. «