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Originally Posted by direwolf
Yup, that streak was all smoke & mirrors. Sure it's never easy winning 16 straight, but the schedule makers made the path about as easy as you could have possibly made it during that stretch. They also had a lot of good fortune with travel, multiple breaks between games, back-up goalies, and going up against teams who were either in the midst of losing streaks themselves or just not playing their best hockey.
And as we all expected, as soon as they started facing playoff-calibre teams, they couldn't keep it rolling. The Oilers' lack of depth really showed in those two games against Vegas and LA. The Ducks game should have been a loss as well if not for the refs gift-wrapping it for them late in the 3rd period and looking the other way when the Oilers committed obvious infractions.
In short, they are who we thought they were.
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They also lined up Markstrom's brief tweak and got Vladar, who doesn't fare well when he has to play consecutive games.
And it still took a pinball goal from a near impossible location to pull it out.