EDMONTON, AB- Mattias Janmark's loss back in April would end up being the Oilers gain.
The freshly inked winger learned first hand that Edmonton was a team on the rise after playing the Oilers while still a member of the Vegas Golden Knights late last season. Flashback to April 16th, with the Golden Knights trailing the Oilers in the Pacific Division playoff race by five points with seven games left to play in the regular season.
The surging Oilers squad would easily dispatch of the Golden Knights in the contest, picking up a 4-0 victory for the Roger Place crowd. The pivotal result for Edmonton would, for all intents and purposes, eliminate Vegas from post-season contention.
We all remember what came next, as the Oilers found themselves as one of the final four teams playing for Lord Stanley's Cup, but it was that game in particular that helped sell Janmark on the Oilers as a future destination.
"We (Vegas) were actually playing pretty good at the time and we needed a win in Edmonton. I think we lost 4-0, you could really tell that the team gelled at the right time," Janmark said to Bob Stauffer on Oilers Now on 630 CHED. "They had a really impressive run and I'm excited to be a part of that, hopefully, get better and have another run at it."
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Mattias joins the Oilers locker room after having seen the team gel first hand while a member of the Vegas Golden Knights
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