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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Not to mention without falling ass backwards into an undeserved McDavid that piece of crap team isn't even in the playoffs right now.
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I get that in order to be one of the cool kids on the board you have to hate the Oilers. Not exactly sure why. I grew up in the 80s when there was a real rivalry and the Oilers and Flames were the teams to beat. Sure I hated the Oilers then. They were our main rival and main obstacle to winning a Cup. Maybe we both get there again. I also hated the Canucks because they were a Conference rival with a bunch of dirty unlikeable players and insufferable fans. Couldn't care less about them now. Not sure why you'd bother despising the Oilers when they've been completely inept and irrelevant for the last ten years aside from them fluking out and being gifted so many firsts overall and then getting McDavid on top of that.
But aside from all that, objectively speaking, I watched the Oilers and Flames down the stretch and in the playoffs and well...
They got a much better goalie than we did. Out of the guys that have been available, the Oilers, the Sharks, and the Leafs got good young reliable number ones and we did not.
The Oilers are now a tougher, more physical team than the Flames. They have big physical forwards who contribute offensively on each of their top three lines. And I would absolutely love to have someone like Larsson on the Flames. We have more speed and offensive skill on D than the Oilers but Larsson is exactly the kind of player we are lacking on our D.
The two teams have been looking to find the same kind of players and the Oilers have filled those holes better than we have. Don't understand how that can be denied.
Fair enough to be of the opinion that Chiarelli may have paid too much and puts the Oilers in a hole later on given what McDavid and Draisatl will demand. I guess we'll see but Talbot, Klefbom, Larsson, McDavid, Draisatl seems like a solid core to build on.
I guess this is all a tangent but I guess my point is if we have to trade Backlund to fill the holes in our lineup, the same holes we've had for 3 seasons now, and which Chiarelli has managed to fill in two, that's a major fail for Treliving.