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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Hopefully the people who were supposedly on the hot seat are breathing a bit easier and can hold onto their jobs longer.
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Exactly this. It instills a bit of hope, and even if they are to crash and burn they can point at the fact that the team strung a few wins together at the beginning of the season to convince ownership that they are just about to turn yet another corner, and therefore keep the same group together for another shot next year. Just like they used the win against the Flames in the opening game last year to convince themselves that all the losing that came after was just an anomaly.
Right now they are without doubt running their core group of players into the ground. McDavid is on the ice for hilarious amount of minutes each game, Nurse and Klefbom were both in the 28 minute range against Boston. That's what you do in the playoffs if needed, not at the very beginning of the season. Then of course, hanging on for the first month of the season is basically playoffs for the Oilers.