Agree with the above posts.
This talk about the Oilers favorable schedule due to playing a tired team on the second of back-to-back nights is a bit overdone.
I've seen many games where the team that is playing on a second of a B2B night performs better. If a team loses the first night, they are more hungry to perform the next.
In addition, these guys are conditioned professional athletes that have been playing hockey their whole lives, including many long trips on much less luxurious modes of transport/accommodation, and playing 2-3 nights in a row on many occasions.
Further, the Oilers are always in the top 5 of the most air miles flown during the season (as are the Flames I believe), so it's not like they don't have stretches of long hours flown and getting into hotels late at night, etc.
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