EDMONTON — There was a time in Darnell Nurse’s career when consecutive Western Conference Finals would have carried him through a summer without his feet ever touching the ground.

But beating Dallas falls way back in the rearview mirror when you don’t win that next series against Florida. That’s just the way a pro athlete thinks, and Nurse is no different.

“The disappointment probably weighs a little heavier,” Nurse admits, “because that’s how you go into the summer, right? It’s that last result you take into the summer.

“With that said, you’ve always got to zoom out and see that there is obviously progress. Going to the Cup Final two years in a row, that’s progress. But it stinks, you know? It stinks, and it sits with you.”

Nurse scored a goal in the Oilers’ 3-2 overtime loss Sunday i

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