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Originally Posted by ComixZone
We can question this or that or whatever but at the end of the day the difference in the series was McDavid and Draisaitl.
We don’t have talent on that level, and won’t have talent on that level without drafting where the Oilers drafted - 1st and 3rd overall. It’s just very simple - the better talent won out.
Flames did their best with the tools they had. Management bolstered the roster nicely, and had a clear plan right from last summer - and it worked. Sutter maximized every drop of sweat from his players. We had killer individual performances from everyone on the roster.
…and none of that matters at the end of the day if the goal is to win the Stanley Cup. The Flames do not have the foundation required to do so. We just bumped up against the reality of winning in the NHL. That’s it, that’s all.
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Originally Posted by ComixZone
This is all that matters in the end.
The prideful organization/fans that mocked the Oilers for rebuilding through the top of the draft just got smoked by the Oilers because they built through the top of the draft. I remember how smug Feaster/Burke/Treliving were during STH sessions about how Edmonton was building their team...well, here we are.
Pride comes before the fall, and this organization has fallen and it has proven it is not championship quality.
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“Pride comes before the fall.”
Man, these are deeply cringe posts. Get it together.
It’s one playoff series. One year. The Oilers aren’t some immovable object. They made it to the conference finals on the back of our uncharacteristically ####ty play. If you want to go full nihilism and convince yourself that the Flames built the best team they could possibly build given a lack of a top 3 pick and we were simply met with “the reality of winning in the NHL” then I don’t even know what to say.
If the Flames had played to their potential, as in, the way we’ve seen them play against contenders before, they win the series. They didn’t. They lost.
Make some tweaks, come back next year, and we go for it again. Oilers are strictly as good as they are because they have Kane and Hyman. When it was just the McDrai show, it was pretty phenomenally ####ty viewing. Glamour picks don’t mean #### if you can’t build a good team, and you can build a good team without them.