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Originally Posted by Toonage
Its all the Canadian teams really. Enormous pressure to win year in and year out.
Unless you're the Sens where saving money was their Stanley Cup.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Perhaps i am stubborn but I simply do not buy that argument. There are many teams in this league where fans will tune out if they are not a contender.
This is not true for Canadian teams.
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Sure, but there are very few teams in the same media-bubble as the Canadian teams. I think it is more about the noise than it is the results.
But more to the point, I wonder how much of the Oilers stumbling around in a trackless wasteland of high draft picks for so many years has also struck the fear of god into the hearts of a lot of Canadian team officials.