ANAHEIM — With their team’s season on the line again, Edmonton Oilers fans will watch nervously Thursday night. More so than the players, actually, who have been in more of these games over the years than you can count.

What’s the difference between today’s Darnell Nurse and the kid who showed up at this rink for his first NHL Game 7 back in 2017?

“The more exposure, the more times you go through it, you just enjoy playing in them more,” said Nurse, who will hit the 100-game mark in Game 6 (Sportsnet, Sportsnet , 7:30 p.m. MT / 9:30 p.m. ET) in NHL post-season games played, a mark that Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid hit in Game 4. “There’s a tension that you feel when you're going through them the first few times. But (now), in moments like this, our group seems to enjoy it. We just want to come out here, play, and let the result take care of itself.”

So far, in a series that was billed as the teachers from Edmonton versus the students of Anaheim, the young Ducks have meted out more lessons than they’ve been taught.

Edmonton wanted a low-event, lower-scoring series? Yeah, good luck with that.

This has turned into the highest-scoring series in all of Round 1, while Anaheim (4.2 goals per game) and Edmonton (3.8) sit atop the league in playoff goal scoring through five games.

Now that we’ve reached critical mass in Game 6, however, a........

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