The Intern Diaries are back for another week to fill you in on what the current vibes are at Nation HQ. Status update: Not great thanks to the Edmonton Oilers.

Yesterday the vibes were way down at the office. Everyone is devastated after Thursday’s game, and I am still feeling it today at home. Monday was pretty brutal too, after the Game 4 loss on Sunday night.

There have been a lot of mock trade discussions and free agent hopes, fully indulging in the offseason discourse. Woz said some crazy things that I’m not even going to repeat, but I’ve been learning that’s pretty typical. He has some interesting takes.

As for my work, this week was pretty similar to last. I worked on the NHL Notebook every day and started on the next Top 100 Oilers story. Next week, I’ll be taking on more responsibility now with copy writing for the marketing department. Being an intern at Oilersnation means you get to dip your toe in multiple fields, which is super awesome.

Now, let’s have fun for a minute. The highlight of my week was when I got to go to Game 5 on Tuesday. It was an amazing experience right from the beginning. My friend, Delaney Miles, and I went down to the glass for warmups, and when the Oilers social media admin came out, we chatted via lip reading through the glass for a minute.

Then, she asked me to throw my phone over to her. After some hesitation, I did, and she and one of the team’s photographers successfully caught the phone, but not without some dramatics and cartoonishly pretending that it was going to slip from their hands.

She waited for the Oilers players to make their entrance down the tunnel before pulling up my camera. When the doors were about to open, she hit record, and now I have a pretty sweet two-minute video on my phone.

My personal favourite part is at the end when she just started tracking Zach Hyman. Very cool, thank you, Oilersmin.

I have never experienced a game where the fans were as locked in and rowdy as they were in Game 5. Everyone knew their role in trying to spark some emotion into our team that had been otherwise pretty lifeless throughout the series, it was so loud at times I could hardly hear myself think.

I constantly had chills. Podz scored, then Hyms scored, then Leon scored, and the place was just rocking after the first-period performance from the team. However, there were still some audibly expressed nerves around the place, since the Oilers have had a hard time holding leads this postseason.

Delaney and I were having a blast throughout the game, and we had some great people around us who we briefly made friends with. We even got a compliment from two of the women in front of us when they said, “You guys were so awesome.” I’m honestly just happy we weren’t annoying anyone. After the win, everyone was smiling and cheering, hope was genuinely restored in the series. Too bad that didn’t last longer than a couple of days.

Anyway, I am happy the guys get to rest now following three exhausting years of almost nothing but hockey. Next year we will be way better, I can feel it already.

As for myself, I am honestly a little excited to be able to have my evenings back for the next five months. Being an Oilers fan is kind of like a full-time job on its own sometimes, so now I have more time for other things, like seeing Project Hail Mary 47 more times.

Next week my goal is to get three Top 100 Oilers stories done. I want to get as close to finishing the list, by the time my internship ends at the end of June, as possible.

That’s enough from me. I hope everyone is doing okay despite the devastation of Thursday night’s loss. We will be better next year, because Hope Will Never Die.