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Originally Posted by Robbob
I do see what you are saying with that team last year. They were 10-10-0 after the first 20 games and then finished the season on a pretty ridiculous 40-13-9 run playing .718. Unlikely they will duplicate that so that snowball is definitely getting bigger with each loss.
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A lot of the prognosticators this offseason kind of overlooked the fact that the Oilers record last season was buoyed by a historic powerplay. If we have learned anything over the years it's that a historic season is usually followed by a return the the mean. Clearly the goaltending is worse this season and McDavid hasn't been healthy but the powerplay is also way down and that's a big problem for them and it's hard to imagine they can get back to their 2nd half form from last season without their powerplay humming along at historic levels again.