A lot of people expected Oilers star Connor McDavid to finally win the Stanley Cup, especially since both Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby lost their first Final but came back to win it the very next year.

McDavid felt the Oilers were going nowhere doing the same thing over and over again throughout the six-game Stanley Cup Final defeat. "I mean obviously their forecheck was great," McDavid said after the game.

For the second straight year, Connor McDavid and the Oilers came agonizingly close to winning the Stanley Cup only to fall to the Florida Panthers. After two grueling playoff runs with little to show for it,