The Stanley Cup Finals started off with an exciting Game 1 last night. I watched bits and pieces of the first couple of periods and tuned in for the majority of the third. If you didn’t watch here’s a brief recap of what happened. The Edmonton Oilers scored the first three goals of the game to take the early lead. The Carolina Hurricanes finally got on the board midway through the second period and then scored three more in the third to go up 4-3. Edmonton finally scored a power play goal with six and a half minutes to play to tie up the game 4-4.

From there things took a bad turn. The Oilers star goaltender, Dwayne Roloson, was injured about thirty seconds later and was forced to leave the game. Edmonton then had to bring out a cold backup goaltender to finish the game. At that point I was a nervous that they would then lose the game. For the next five minutes or so Edmonton played excellent and their new goalie only faced a shot or two. But then with just over thirty seconds to play in regulation, a bad play behind the goal between the Edmonton goalie and one of their defensemen gave Carolina’s Rod Brind’Amour the puck with an empty net. Brind’Amour’s goal gave Carolina the 5-4 lead and although Edmonton didn’t give up they couldn’t score another last minute goal.

Unfortunately for Edmonton it was announced today that Roloson, their staring goalie, will be out for the remainder of the series. This has to give Carolina a huge advantage going into Game 2, but we can hope that Edmonton rebounds after a mostly evenly played game to make the series an interesting one. Game 2 starts tomorrow night at 8PM eastern on OLN. Having cable is so nice!