Hockey in Canada is, well, hockey in Canada.

But, we’ve got the sun-belt Panthers with so many good pieces, an aggravating skilled aggregation against Canada’s Last Men Standing with the Oilers trying to break the 31-year Canadian team wins drought.

And, it could be a dandy series. It’s got the all-world Connor McDavid and buddy Leon Draisaitl for Oilers marquee NHL value against a very deep Panthers, back for a second kick at the cat in the Cup final after losing to Vegas last June.

One very nice sidebar: Zach Hyman vs Sam Reinhart.

Hyman has 68 goals this season (54 in league play and a playoff best 14) while Reinhart has 65 (57 in regular-season, eight in the playoffs). Five more goals for Hyman and he ties Jari Kurri and Reggie Leach for the all-time best 19.

Here’s some other things to look at:

1. Corey Perry

Nobody in history has been to five Stanley Cup finals with five different teams (Ducks, Stars, Lightning, Canadiens and now Oilers) than Corey Perry, and that’s thousands of players over 100 years.

But Perry is getting tired of watching the other team carry the silver mug around the ice after his one celebration as a 22-year-old in Anaheim in 2007.

“Yup, 17 years ago,” said Perry, who was on top of the world, finishing second to Ryan Getzlaf in Ducks’ playoff scoring that year. “I waited 12 more years to get to a final and now, well, it’s four teams in the last five, so….” He’s the only guy from that Ducks team (three Hall of Famers—Teemu Selanne, Scott Niedermayer, Chris Pronger) still playing.

2. Oilers penalty killing

Nobody’s named Elias on the Panthers, so maybe the Oilers run of killing penalties will keep rolling along at 28 in a row.

The last powerplay goal they gave up was in the last three minutes of the second period of Game 3 against Vancouver 10 games ago when Elias Lindholm kicked the puck up onto his stick in a scramble and around Skinner with Darnell Nurse in the penalty box—Lindholm’s second PP goal of the night.

Elias Pettersson also had a PP goal for Vancouver in round 2, the only three the Oilers have surrendered in 49 tries this post-season.

3. Maurice vs. Knoblauch

Paul Maurice has coached 130 NHL playoff games, and Kris Knoblauch 18  so, uh, advantage to the much-travelled (Carolina, Toronto, Winnipeg and now Florida) in a coach’s match-up to start this series if we’re going there.

Knoblauch barely knows Maurice, but they ran into one another at the 2015 draft where McDavid went first, as we all lovingly know here.

“I actually interviewed for a job on Paul’s (Jets’) staff there. That, uh, was a pretty special draft (for the Oilers. I don’t know if I was ready,” said Knoblauch, who was coaching junior in Erie back then with McDavid as his top dog.. “Then when I got the assistant’s job in Philadelphia (to Dave Hakstol) I called up Paul for some advice.”

4. 2014 NHL Draft representation

This series is a first if we’re talking draft history.

Never have the top four draft picks in the same calendar year been in the Cup finals against one another. We’re going back to the 2014 summer draft in Philly when the Oilers called out Leon Draisaitl’s name at No. 3 with defenceman Aaron Ekblad going No. 1 to Florida, winger Reinhart No. 2 to Buffalo and centre Sam Bennett picked No. 4 by Calgary. They all posed for photos outside the Rocky statue in front of the Wells Fargo Arena.