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Originally Posted by Kasi
We turned over four players not exactly an entirely new team. Sure I dislike Edmonton and always will but let’s not try to pretend that series didn’t happen. We thought last year our team was built to handle them and to play disciplined but then that all went out the window.
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some extremely key pieces were changed and it gives half of the team new looks . the team looks drastically different in many ways this year .. and no longer runs through one player
also "I dislike Edmonton but" always looks like closet oiler fan speak
if you thought the Flames were playing anywhere near their game that series you are mistaken . they played Edmonton's sloppy end to end game from period 2 on for reasons unknown .. maybe because they were overconfident after winning a hard fought series and thought they could best the Oilers at their own game rather than forcing them to play into the Flames tight checking , hard working style
I just don't put a lot of weight into 5 games that got out of hand for a number of reasons especially now that meaningful changes to the core have been made . it's history now and the Oilers flopped immediately afterward against a team on its game and it wasn't close , so what does that say about their team that is actually the same this year