Rick Bowness invoked the wisdom from one of hockey's most famous playoff tales Tuesday night. “You get to this stage, at the end of a playoff series, if you're not putting an ice bag on, you're not playing hard enough,” Bowness said. As the story goes, the young, up-and-coming Edmonton Oilers had just lost the 1983 Stanley Cup Final to the dynastic New York Islanders.
GP | W | L | OTL | Pts | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
82 | 52 | 21 | 9 | 113 | |
82 | 52 | 24 | 6 | 110 | |
82 | 50 | 25 | 7 | 107 | |
82 | 47 | 30 | 5 | 99 | |
82 | 43 | 33 | 6 | 92 | |
82 | 39 | 34 | 9 | 87 | |
82 | 36 | 41 | 5 | 77 | |
82 | 23 | 53 | 6 | 52 |