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Originally Posted by Rejean31
I keep hearing the McReferee comment about how other teams had to lose before winning. How much losing did they have to do? I mean lets look at the Oiler lessons since McReferee arrived on the scene.
2016 - Missed playoffs
2017- Lost Conference semi finals (won one round)
2018 - Missed playoffs
2019 - Missed playoffs
2020 - Lost qualifying round (won 0 rounds)
2021 - Lost first round (won 0 rounds)
2022 - Lost conference final (won 2 rounds and were swept in the conference final)
2023 - Lost conference semi final (won one round)
That's 8 seasons of lessons now Connor. You all must be slow learners.
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This made me wonder about how long it took other superstars to learn. Connor is taking a while, but not yet the longest.
Gretzky - 4 seasons of lessons (Messier can be here too)
Lemieux - 6
Yzerman - 13
Sakic - 7
Jagr - 0
Crosby - 3
Ovechkin - 12
Kane - 2
Some very notable Cup champs there. Yzerman and Ovechkin certainly took forever to win but the others were much quicker than what McDavid is doing. I believe that McDavid would fit into the situation of players like Ron Francis, Ray Bourque, Brett Hull etc. They couldn't win but one their 1st or 2nd year on a new team. I honestly believe that McDavid will win a cup just as quickly after he leaves the Oilers. It won't take him long to learn how to win. He's slowly figuring it out on his own but playing for a franchise that thinks "Just put out Connor and Leon and we'll win" is a solid tactic then he's SOL.