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Originally Posted by Soulless Sisters
But people forgot the terribleness of those franchises as soon as 2007 came for the Penguins, 2009 for the Blackhawks, and 2010 for the Kings. You eclipse 100 points and make the playoffs, and the hockey world generally has amnesia.
Hell, people forgot all about the Islanders before Garth Snow's stupidity last summer crippled the on-ice product this year.
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Not if they hadn't kept progressing and won championships.
If they had a year or two of playoff appearances and then fell right back down, there would have been plenty of talk about how their rebuild was wrong.
That and, they were not the historic level of bad we've seen from the Oilers.