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Originally Posted by New Era
That post was removed as it could not be substantiated. Good on their mods for not wanting to propagate BS like that. They have enough problems with being irrational so they should work on curbing crazy stuff like that.
I expect the Oilers to slide this year. They were nice enough to remind us about the unsustainability of the Flames' ability to win games late and such, and they were right in that regard. But I would like to remind those Oiler fans that it is highly unlikely that:
- Patrick Maroon will score 27 goals, almost tripling his previous career high.
- The defense of Sekera, Klefbom, Larsson, Russell, Nurse, Benning, and Gryba can repeat that performance from last season.
- Cam Talbot plays 73 games and maintains that performance level.
- Zach Kaissan will keep his #### together and play a full season.
- Ryan Strome will fill in for the lost offense of Jordan Eberle.
- Mark Letestu repeats last year's performance.
- Leon Draisaitl will be half as effective without McJesus, and be able to carry a line.
- They will have as soft a schedule and the favor of so many back halves of the Alberta back-to-back.
I'm going to say they'll be good for 6-8 more losses and be closer to a .500 team than challenging for the division. What they did last year just isn't sustainable.
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Sekeras probably won't be back until December or Janurary.
Losing Eberle and Sekeras are big blows. On top of that as useless as Poulliot is he's still a top 9 forward for them.
I think that the downgrades so far, plus the unsustainable events from last year are really going to hurt the Oilers.