DALLAS — Someone had to say something.
In a dressing room full of devastated Edmonton Oilers players, some in tears and all in various stages of undress after a Game 7 loss at Florida in last year’s Stanley Cup Final, Zach Hyman decided he would be the voice.
“There’s nothing that’s going to make this feel better. Nothing we say,” he said, in footage aired as part of the Amazon documentary on last spring’s playoffs. “But I (expletive) know — I know — we’re going to be back. I (expletive) know it. I know it in my (expletive) heart.”
Ironically, it looks like Hyman will be proven prophetic. Almost.
With his team one win away from becoming the first Canadian team to play in back-to-back Cups since…