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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
I think the Oilers would have potentially had an easier schedule this year if the divisions and schedule had remained unchanged.
Yeah they had games this year against the non playoff teams in Cgy, Van and Ott, but if they had stayed in the Pacific they would have had 29 games against Vegas, Cgy, Van, Ari, SJ, Ana, LA.
One of those teams is so not like the others. And I'd argue that Ari, SJ, Ana, and LA are all worse than the worst team in the North.
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But again, you're just assuming you'd roll over all of them.
When each of those teams employs a style and unique personnel specific to them, some that may be more or less effective against your style and top heavy nature of your roster.
I simply don't know how you can jump to the conclusion that it would be a walk in the park for your team when you're also a club that was eliminated and out-special teamed by the 12th place post-apex Blackhawks who are very much in the same class as a number of those teams.
I'd employ a wait and see approach given how many asterisks your season has. I think you're understating the, frankly, massive difference between facing 6 teams over a half season vs 31 over a full season with intra-continental travel.
It's strange because you guys acknowledge the validity of the points we're making here but then you just go back to your pro-oilers logic that is pretty far removed from objectivity or reality.
You can't even find a middle ground here, you're just going back to the assumption that the Oilers are better than a whole pile of teams by default and won't have any trouble beating them despite every normal season demonstrating with overwhelming evidence that it's never that black and white and literally any team can beat you or have your number over the course of a season and that all of it is quite fluid and ever-changing from year to year, including the output of your top players whom your team relies particularly heavily upon.
Try to get on my level here, man. This isn't purely rivalry-fueled oilers slighting here.
You'll need to step outside of the bubble of reality distorted propaganda you're getting fed on the daily up there.