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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Enjoy it Oiler fans you had no adversity this year, no major injuries and a schedule heavy on teams on the second half of back to backs.
Because of that, you went from what 70 points to probably 95 plus.
Your team is the epitome of unsustainable because outside of the Hall for Larson deal you didn't change that much and you still had most of your forwards playing at the same level as last year.
McDavid and Draisaitl and Talbot carried your corpse up the mountain. But like the Titan who's punishment was pushing the rock up the hill only to see it slide back down after he reached the summit, the aptly named Sysyphus (Because McDavid is a diving sissy). This is your height, and the fall down is going to be delicious.
By the way, I have to say, that I'm loving Draisaitl's explosion lately (ching ching ching goes the cash register, 7 millionth floor or maybe more for a long term deal, cap hell with McDavid).
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According to Man Games lost the Flames have been the second least injured team this year behind the Capitals, Other than 10 games missed by Johnny and 12 from Verseeg what adversity has Calgary faced?
In comparison Edmonton has the 4th most man games lost. None this year were to significant players (Nurse/Pouliot/Hendricks the only regular starters) so I wouldn't say they were all that significant either.
Don't the Flames get 3 2nd half back to backs this week against the division? That argument is getting played out.
Last year the following players spent time on LTIR: McDavid, RNH, Eberle, Pouliot, Klefbom, so maybe last years adversity made the Oilers record last year worse than it should have been and the players this year are performing at the same level just more often.
As for Talbot carrying the team and being over played, I can't seem to recall Flames fans stating that Kiper was overplayed between 2005-2011 when he played a minimum of 71 games a year or apologizing to other teams when he stole games.