I had a talk with some Oiler fan buddies up here about this in the off-season. We basically all agreed that if they're just a lottery team again next (this) season, then there is officially something wrong with this current core, including all the young blue chippers.
If they finish this year on a whimper like its looking, I'm declaring this group to be a failure, and I don't want to hear from Oiler fans from June-October anymore on how good they're apparently going to be. No more free passes waiting for assumed certain future success, its put up or shut up. Though I'm sure Oiler fans and the Canadian media will forget about that by draft time, as always..
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