Very many frustrations towards the Flames last night that I'm not sure I can put it all into words. Seeing a team hardly look like they wanted to be there and wanted to even give a shot at winning that game after the first period was torturous as a faithful fan. But enough of them. In a game like that where the difference came from one player I can't help but speak out about the other side:
There's no denying what McDavid can do. He's good, he's what Iginla was to the Flames in the early and mid 00s.
However I maintain that the Oilers should never have been able to get McDavid if all things were right and equal in the way the NHL conducts its lottery/draft. If the Flames were dressing McDavid today after three prior first overalls in short succession the Oilers would be clamouring for a change in rules too and pulling their hair out.
They should be McDavidless currently. A 4th pick that high should not have been possible, which would make them a bubble team at best right now. But that's where they deserve to be given the lack of competence throughout their management and many not great moves outside of being given good players through lottery. They should have to work to be a good team the hard way like everyone else. Instead it was given without being earned. The people in their office didn't do anything to put them to the next level. They just got a difference maker. They didn't have to draft their stars in the mid rounds like the Flames or develop Backlunds and Jankowskis over several years of patience.
McDavid deserves plenty of praise but the Oilers do not. They don't deserve to be where they are which is why if there's any form of karma in the sport, they'll be taken down a peg at some point this year and have to learn the hard lesson of humility like us other NHL fans have had to.
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