My tinfoil hat idea that the oilers/katz paid dearly to get mcdavid, as the team was a joke and had no hope of turning the ship after the massive arena deal.
In order to avoid massive losses and the deal looking stupid, oilers magically win the mcdavid draft. Just like how the pens magically won the crosby draft when the franchise was basically ready to die off.
At this point, the only other thing the league can do is offset the schedule to try to stimulate success in barren Edmonton. B2b stats in the past few years, then this kind of opening schedule seems to be a nice coincidence.
What's that 'playing vs tired team' stat look like for the oilers this year?
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