Nah, the Oilers dominated the metrics in all six games. The only reason the series was even close was because of the reffing.
I’m not saying this year will be easy, but last year the Kings weren’t close to being on our level.
I can't agree with this at all. There's nothing in that series that showed that the Kings weren't even close to the Oilers.
Game 1 - The Oilers were the better team but it was still a pretty tight game overall
Game 2 - The Oilers were the much better team
Game 3 - The Oilers really should have won this game, they were the better team the majority of the game
Game 4 - This is where it started to turn. The Kings gained a lot of confidence from pulling Game 3 out of the fire and largely dominated this game. The score effect made the metrics look fairly even but the Oilers were fighting an uphill climb the entire game. Very fortunate to escape this one.
Game 5 - All Oilers
Game 6 - All Kings. The Oilers were very fortunate to pull this game out.
I look at it as - Games 2,3 and 5 where the Oilers were the better team, Kings were better in 4 and 6 (Ironically lost both) and Game 1 was fairly even with a slight nod to the Oilers. The Oilers were the better team overall but there was no domination here and certainly not all 6 games, that's just not true at all.