thanks rex/manson
the reason i like the Oilers is
-TB playing back to back nites including 4 games in 6 nites(9 games in 16 days)
-TB looked very fatigued after the 1st period of last nights game
-this is the toughtest travel they have had to deal with the entire season(while west teams deal with it basically every time)
-7 hour trip before coming to Vancouver
-Oilers have been in Edmonton since Monday
-Oil unbeaten in there last 4 @ home(including 2 shutouts)
-these teams are basically in the same league...Tb is in 3rd in the east, while the Oil are 10th in the west but the oil are only 4 points back of them overall
the last 2 years TB hasn't been good on the road BUT they have gotton 9 points out of 12 in there last 6 games otr(going 4-1-0-1)