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Originally Posted by AlbertaOiler72
disagree
Oilers had a 2-goal lead in 5 of the 7 games, a 1-goal lead in 6 of the 7 games and Anaheim needed a couple OT wins and Kesler holding onto Talbot's pad for dear-life to squeeze past the Oilers...
I'll take that "embarrassment" over a 4-game sweep to a banged up Ducks squad missing Fowler, Vatanen and Bieksa any day
so I guess McDavid, Draisaitl, Strome, Caggulia, Larsson, Klefbom, Benning and Nurse won't get better as they gain experience, especially going to the 2nd round of the playoffs?
they've all peaked now?
I think the Oilers are banking on the continued development of the young core that went pretty deep into the playoffs
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So you are counting on the following to occur again:
1. McDavid to play 25 minutes a night to carry your team during the regular season;
2. Zero significant injuries;
3. Draisatl to magically learn to put up points away from McDavid, or to maintain his impossible shooting percentage from the playoffs;
4. Someone to magically replace Sekeras minute u til January;
5. Talbot to channel Brodeur again and play 75 elite games covering up a defence that gave up way too many danger area scoring chances;
6. Maroon to triple his average goals again;
7. Strome to suddenly pull it all together and replace Eberles goals;
8. A butter soft schedule.
Seems legit.
The Flames are clearly crazy thinking our significantly improved defence (pre stone last year) and potentially getting decent goaltending will improve our team...and maybe our best two forwards not battling injuries for parts of the year. Man, we are nuts.