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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Everything you need to know about the Oilers is contained in the ATL comments of our first three goals.
Goal 1: Complaining about Klefbomb
Goal 2: Complaining about Larsson
Goal 3: Complaining about Bear
It was the same thing in the first game in Edmonton. On every goal, you could see one of their defencemen make a terrible mistake.
The only reason Edmonton is even in a playoff race is how bad the Pacific Division is. If this was last year's Pacific, the Oilers are already in next year territory.
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The reason they're in it is that but also their confidence/knack for playing eastern teams, which constituted a large portion of their first half. Dont know what it is, if out of conference teams are looking past them or what, but they've played the west pretty poorly in comparison.
And now they'll be largely facing teams that are directly competing with them and will give a ####, and will be scouting and making game plans around limiting McAvi and I'd reckon they'll be much harder pressed to come by wins now with the goaltending coming down to earth as well.
Apparently Smith's had a couple hot starts (they actually wanted him to start against the flames!) but I would trust him about as far as I could throw him to sustain adequate performances.