Winning "culture" is bull#### in my opinion. Chicago and Pittsburgh were brutal teams that were getting their butts kicked every year. They didn't have some magic mentality shift, they added some of the best players in the game to their roster.
Winning is hiring a coach with an effective strategy and filling your team with talented players who have the skills to execute it. I've seen players with pitbull never lose mentalities miss the playoffs for most of their career on bad teams and wishy washy guys who's mind is off hockey the minute they get knocked out of the playoffs like Jagr win multiple cups.
The Oilers have bad management. They have drafted and traded poorly and have a team with no balance/capacity to keep the puck out of their net. The notion that they have a losing culture and the Flames have a winning culture is just backslapping to make ourselves feel better.
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