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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
This is (another reason) why the argument that Oiler fans make about "we did better against Vegas than Florida did" and "we lost to the Cup champs two years in a row" is such meaningless drivel.
Every round is a completely new entity. And by the 4th round, teams are really beat up, and sometimes run out of gas. FLA had nothing left for this series - nothing. Not their fault, not a criticism, just what it is. So to try and infer that your team did better against Vegas (and is somehow better, as a result), is as pointless as it is embarrassing.
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Yes. Thank you.
I think the recognition about just how much random good fortune goes into winning that God damned elusive trophy has actually greatly improved my enjoyment of the game. Hockey is blissful, spectacular chaos, where any given thing can happen on any given night. The margins for error are so fine, and the parity between teams so razor-thin that at the end of the day it is fair to say that the luckiest team is the one who wins every year.
It just serves to illustrate how astonishingly no good the Oilers are, when even blessed with ridiculous amounts of good fortune they still cannot get out of their own way, and continue to suck.
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