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Duncan Keith’s phone started blowing up over the weekend after Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch dropped word to the media that the three-time Stanley Cup champion had spoken to the team.
Specifically, Knoblauch shared, Keith recalled to Oilers players Friday morning how he and the 2011 Chicago Blackhawks team came back from 3-0 down in a first-round series with the Vancouver Canucks in 2011 to force a Game 7 overtime before ultimately falling just short in a rather memorable few days.
Needless to say, this Oilers team sure would take Game 7 overtime against a Florida Panthers team getting its second chance to hoist the Stanley Cup on Tuesday night in front of its home crowd in Game 5.
Reached in Penticton, B.C., on Monday morning, Keith, now an Oilers player development consultant, wanted to clarify that he didn’t exactly deliver a “speech” to the team but rather spoke with a number of players in separate conversations Friday morning after Game 3.
Which is more suited to Keith’s low-key style.
“I was getting text messages from friends and family saying, ‘You should go back and give them another speech,’” Keith told The Athletic with a bit of an embarrassed chuckle. “I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’”
Then he saw what Knoblauch had shared. Which was fine, of course. But it wasn’t a speech in front of the entire team.
“I went over there to see the guys more than anything, you know, but chatted with a few of the players,” the 2015 Conn Smythe Trophy winner said. “I was walking around talking to different guys. I gave them a little bit of the situation I was in back in 2011 against the Canucks.”
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