After enough stinkers eventually you're gonna get a game where Mike Smith makes some saves and the crossbar is your friend.
Does that mean you've turned things around for good?
The vast majority of the time.... no. Especially if your roster is as inherently flawed as the Oilers.
Look at the Canucks under Boudreau. Improved, sure, but would you pick them to make any kind of run even now? Not a chance.
Sutter is a very, very rare kind of coach.
Is Woodcroft that? No. Can he work the same kind of magic with the Oilers as Sutter has here? Chances are about as close to 0% as you can get, without being 0%.
But Edmonton's gonna put the cart before the horse cause thats what they're astoundingly good at. Oilers faithful are more adept at boldly jumping the gun than their hockey team is at the game of hockey.
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