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Originally Posted by bubbsy
All joking aside, I am somewhat envious of the oilers preseason player performances. One of the big questions for them was at RW, and all of Rattie, Puljujarvi, and Yamamoto have come out flying in the preseason. Does it translate to the season? Who knows, but I'd much rather have those guys coming into the season riding high on momentum built from the preseason rather than just playing thru.
I would have been ecstatic to see neal, lindholm, Bennett, Jankowski, ryan have some big preseason games under their belt.
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We've had some great performances that tell us enough about what these guys can do, and that's enough really.
This is where the Oilers do pre-seasons wrong. We won't even remember what happened in two months.
Reading into pre-season stats is a complete waste of time. Whatever they've accomplished gets wiped on October 3rd and they have to prove it all over again against NHL lineups with real points up for grabs.
I'd rather our top players save all their output for the real games.