Cossa making just enough saves as Oil Kings progessing in WHL playoffs

Championship teams have to be able to win games in many different ways. In the first and second rounds of the 2022 Western Hockey League playoffs, Sebastian Cossa and the Edmonton Oil Kings were defeating their opponents by completely smothering their offensive output. Cossa, a first-round pick of the Red Wings in 2021, allowed more than one goal in just one of his first six playoff games this year. The 19-year-old goaltender posted three consecutive shutouts at Rogers Place in Edmonton as the Oil Kings swept both the Lethbridge Hurricanes and Red Deer Rebels. The most shots Cossa faced during a single playoff game in the first two rounds? How about 26, which he saw twice against the Hurricanes and once against the Rebels. He faced fewer than 20 shots in three games during the first two rounds. After defeating the Rebels in the second round, the Oil Kings advanced to face the Winnipeg Ice in the Eastern Conference Final. The Ice are, in a word, good. They finished the 2021–22 WHL regular season with the leag