[CaptainCrunch]

Start the whining brigade as a weak blueline gets weaker.

All we'll hear is that if only we didn't have these injuries we'd be contenders.

Every team has injuries but they've drafted well enough and developed well enough to at least float until their key players get back.

The Flames have done very well since Johnny went down because we have just plain better organization depth then that so called team to the North.

Yes we don't have the gaudy high draft picks that the Oilers have had and pretty much failed to utilize, but at least we're not a team built like a paper bag which tends to blow away at the first signs of the winds of adversity.

To me the Oilers do deserve some bad karma from the hockey gods, their window to compete is going to close fairly quickly as their high end players get huge salary cap devouring dragon contracts and they continue to over pay for free agents. In the end they'll be razor thin teams that will collapse due to things like injuries until they decide to actually not just gleefully roll in first round draft choices and then fail everywhere else.