ANAHEIM — Can’t get a bounce, can’t catch a break.

Is it because the Edmonton Oilers, 4-3 losers in overtime Sunday, haven’t earned a break or a bounce? Or that the always-on-their-front-foot Anaheim Ducks have?

Or is a loose puck that’s slung out of the corner, then hits a skate and bleeds through the five hole just a sign that this isn’t Edmonton’s spring, after two trips to the Stanley Cup Final?

Oh, and then the Situation Room — which we know to be a coin flip on plays like this one — sides against you too, adding insult to injury.

“I don’t know how they see it as a conclusive goal,” said defenceman Mattias Ekholm, who, like all of us, only saw an angle where the puck was half-covered by the skate of goalie Tristan Jarry. “Maybe there is somebody who can prove otherwise, but it doesn’t matter. They called it a goal and we’ll have to abide with that.”

The good folks in the Situation Room emailed out this verdict: “The Referee’s initial call on the ice was that the puck completely crossed the goal line. Following video review, the Situation Room determined that the puck completely crossed the goal line.”

In their heart of hearts, the Oilers gave you the impression that they too thought the puck was likely over the line. But nobody was happy with the lack of........

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