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Originally Posted by OldSam
So in this week of 5 games in 8 days, with travel, for the Flames, and the post above that indicates the Oilers haven't had a B2B yet, and the HNIC a couple of weeks ago when every team playing was on a B2B (the Oilers had the night off), I was wondering just WTF is going on. Is the scheduler from Edmonton? Is he/she a Greaser fan? Asking for a friend.
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1. Bettman is on a leash tied to Katz' ####.
2. The league, historically, will basically break any of it's own rules, norms or practices to favor a league superstar. This is basically the only unbreakable tenant in the NHL's history. McDavid is the current darling (though I think that's fading as Bedard looks like dynamite.)
3. The oilers failing after the city shelled out to build the club a new arena with public money, and the league bent over backwards to ensure generational level talent was made available is a bad storyline for the league. The oilers are ultimately a show pony for the league leadership: Look what can happen for your club's value if you can bend over the tax payers AND play the draft game over and over again!! <-- this sales pitch doesnt work when the resulting team is still historically bad. So the league has to fix this somehow.