However, the Oilers won 4 of the next 5 games to take the series.

However, the Bills quest for a third consecutive Super Bowl suffered a major setback when they lost the final game of the season to the Houston Oilers.

However, the renamed Tennessee Oilers also played before sparse Memphis crowds, and thus spent the 1998 season playing at Nashville's Vanderbilt Stadium.

However, they had to play three straight games in Edmonton, where the Oilers managed to lock up the series.

However they could not overcome the odds a third time and eventually succumbed to the Oilers, 3 – 1, in Game 7.

However, game five saw the Oilers come back with a stunning 4 – 3 overtime win on a shorthanded breakaway by Fernando Pisani.

However, when the Broncos relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, before the WHA's first season began, the Oilers were renamed the Alberta Oilers.

However, Pocklington had signed him to a twenty-one year personal services contract in 1979 and Pocklington used the contract to force the NHL to admit the Oilers and allow the Oilers to keep Gretzky.

However, due to the fact that 16 of the 21 NHL teams made the playoffs at the time, the Oilers were still able to get their young players experience in the playoffs ( they would make the playoffs for their first thirteen years in the NHL ).

However, the Oilers were upset by the Los Angeles Kings in five games ( game three of this series, now known as the Miracle on Manchester, saw the Oilers take a 5 – 0 lead, only to lose 6 – 5 to the Kings in overtime ).

However, the Oilers failed to win their third straight Stanley Cup, as the Calgary Flames defeated them in seven games in the second round of the playoffs.

However, the Oilers and their fans were still upset.

However, the Oilers won the next three games to earn a rematch of the 1988 Stanley Cup Finals with Boston.

However, the Oilers unexpected run in the playoffs came to a crashing halt, as the Blackhawks dominated every game and swept the series 4 – 0.

However, after trailing the series 2 – 0 and 3 – 1, the Oilers forced a seventh game.

" However, by starting with the words " We'll kick ," Haynes had made the Texans kick off and allowed the Oilers, not the Texans, to choose which end zone to defend.

However, his debut season with the Oilers was not the dream he imagined as injuries limited him to only 26 games.

However, only one of these former WHA teams, the Oilers, is still in its original market at the present.

However, the lights were on an automatic timer and could be turned back on this time with the game ending with a 3 – 2 triple overtime win for the visiting Oilers.

However, the two of them piled into Oilers goaltender Dwayne Roloson, causing Roloson to be injured for the remainder of the Finals.

However, both were declared free agents after a ruling by AFL commissioner Joe Foss, who declared that Oilers owner Bud Adams had tampered in trade dealings with the Chargers.

However, as soon as Ford met Cagney at the airport, the director warned him that they would " tangle asses ", which caught Cagney by surprise.

However, to the surprise of almost no one outside Seattle, the Pilots were terrible.

However, rebuttal is one of the few vehicles whereby a party may introduce surprise evidence or witnesses.

However, he does know on Monday, that if the hangman as it turns out knocks on his door on Friday, he will have already have expected that ( and been alive to do so ) since Thursday night-and thus, if the hanging occurs on Friday then it will certainly have ceased to be a surprise at some point in the interim period between Monday and Friday.

However, he does know that if he does survive today, he will then know for certain that he must be hanged tomorrow, and thus by the time he is actually hanged tomorrow it will have ceased to be a surprise.

However, much to Valentine's surprise, the lawman denies recognizing him and lets him go.

However, Æthelred returned to England and launched a surprise attack which defeated the Vikings and forced Cnut to flee England.

However, in a surprise move, Duceppe announced the next day that he was withdrawing from the race, and that he would support Pauline Marois who had also announced her intention to run.

However, desertion had become a systemic problem in France, and the surprise German offensive through the Ardennes began on 16 December with severe U. S. casualties, pocketing several battalions and straining the morale of the infantry to the greatest extent yet seen during the war.

However, he was treated to a surprise: Admiral François Darlan — the commander of all French forces — was also in Algiers on a private visit.

It was also a hit in such cities as Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, Cincinnati and Washington D. C. However it was a financial disappointment in the midwest and most other cities in the U. S. To the surprise of RKO, when it premiered in New York on March 3, 1938 at Radio City Music Hall it only made $ 70, 000 and was pulled after only 1 week to make way for Jezebel starring Bette Davis.

However many film critics marveled at her new skill with low comedy, and Life magazine called her " the surprise of the picture.

However, to her surprise, many of her peers and the media compared her new sound to the burgeoning New Wave movement.

However, Haughey and his supporters had been preparing for months to take over the leadership and Lynch's resignation came as no surprise.

However, as with the music of Robert Simpson, Brian's great champion, in certain passages the music does suddenly verge on the pastoral, to the listener's great surprise.

However, a surprise attack is launched on their headquarters by Richard, and both are killed.

However, it was realised that the advent of submarines armed with torpedoes and mines hidden in open sea meant that any operations involving stationing capital ships near enemy ports would place them at great risk of surprise attack and loss.

However, even with such a massive force taking the Germans completely by surprise, the assault was a tactical failure and after 9 days of fighting the Allies managed only to escape back to their own lines, having sustained over 18, 000 casualties.

However, what happened next completely caught the Allied staffs by surprise.

However to the surprise of critics and of conservatives, in his first policy initiative he called for a referendum on a Constitutional amendment permitting the enactment of legislation allowing for divorce in Ireland.

However, Janet Maslin's review in the New York Times said that it came as " a welcome surprise that So I Married an Axe Murderer, which might have been nothing more than a by-the-numbers star vehicle, surrounds Mr. Myers with amusing cameos and gives him a chance to do more than just coast ".

However, D-503 expresses surprise that even torture could not induce I-330 to denounce her comrades.

However, the B-36 was a pre-World War II design: by the time it was fully deployed to Air Force active-duty squadrons, the B-36 was hopelessly vulnerable to modern Soviet MiG-15 jet interceptors, aircraft that would greatly surprise U. S. officials when they later appeared over North Korea.

However in urban areas, the extinguishing of fires ignited by thermal radiation may matter little, as fires may also be started in a surprise attack by blast effect induced electrical shorts, gas pilot lights, overturned stoves, and other ignition sources, as was the case in the breakfast-time bombing of Hiroshima.