EDMONTON—Hours before the puck was set to drop Monday to decide the Stanley Cup, a wave of Edmonton Oilers fans overwhelmed the city’s downtown, sluicing merrily through sidewalks, streets and patio bars to the continuous primal honk of car horns.
They came mainly in shorts and Oilers jerseys, happily baking in the summer heat amid the pounding of drums and random chants of “Let’s Go Oilers!” while police attempted to keep some from spilling into traffic.
