The Wraparound: Mike Smith has been a goaltending roller coaster for Oilers

The Wraparound is your daily look at the 2022 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. We’ll break down the NHL playoff games today with the all-important television information.

•  The Lightning rallied to beat the Rangers, 3-2, and get on the board in the Eastern Conference Final. 

•  Evander Kane has been suspended one game for boarding Nazem Kadri and will miss Game 4 of the Western Conference Final on Monday night. 

•  Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron won the Selke Trophy for an NHL record fifth time as the NHL’s best defensive forward. 

The odds are not in the Edmonton Oilers favor.

They enter Game 4 of the Western Conference Final facing a 3-0 series deficit against one of the league’s best teams. Only four teams have ever been able to overcome that sort of deficit in a best-of-seven series, and the Oilers are going to have to start that comeback attempt on Monday night without forward Evander Kane, one of their most productive players this postseason, as he sits out with a one-game suspension for boarding Nazem Kadri in Game 3 on Saturday night.

Their best chance for making this a series is for Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl to go off over the next four games and carry the Oilers to a miracle.

Given their talent level and production this season and in the playoffs, it’s certainly possible. But it’s also asking for a lot from two players. They are going to need some help, especially against a team — and defense — as good as the Avalanche’s.

Some of that help is going to have to come from their starting goalie, Mike Smith.

Smith has been the ultimate wild card for this Oilers team this season and playoffs because his play has been a wild roller coaster of a ride, not only from series to series and game to game, but sometimes