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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I think a lot of those who are predicting untempered success for the Oilers are sleeping on this crucial point. It's one thing to make up a seven-point gap; it is just that much more difficult to make that up over six teams. When one or two of those teams are slumping, chances are pretty good that another two are playing great. With so many of them in the mix, you are always chasing someone who is playing good hockey, even if a few of them are not.
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Also those teams play each other so the six are getting points no matter what, and some of them are going to be three point games.