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Originally Posted by Major Major
Do us and yourself a favour and stop equating the Oilers decade with the black hawks or penguins. If they were in the record books for awfulness, then guess what, we would remember, and I'd point that out often. Just so happens, the oilers are! Another reason to stop comparing yourselves to them is that the oilers are not yet relevant as contenders and it is a bad look to think this is simply a given.
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I was listening to, I think it might have been, NHL Radio on XM, and they posed the question. Which streak would be harder to imitate in today's NHL? Red Wings consecutive year playoff streak or Oilers consecutive playoff miss streak. The consensus was it takes a lot to be as bad as the Oilers are. Most teams get lucky a few times every decade to be in. They think a team will make the playoff 20 straight times before a team misses for a straight decade.