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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
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LOL. Good find. I love the last part:
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The Bonfire of the Oilers
Why am I so sure of these Oilers? There’s been a fire burning in the eyes of Connor McDavid all season. Now that same fire lights up Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. It’s in Nurse, Kane, and Hyman. It has spread to the role players, to the newcomers, and to the goalies.
It’s this fire that has me convinced of a coming Oilers victory. Do you see it?
it’s a bonfire of ambition and aggression. It’s burning on the fuel of the team’s talent, size and hard-won hockey acumen.
Good luck to any opposing team trying to put it out.
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Compare that to this years write-up:
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McDavid, Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Darnell Nurse and other veterans like Perry and Mattias Ekholm are the captain and the henchmen on this Oilers squad.
There’s a seriousness and fierceness around this team that we haven’t seen before. You can see it in their stretches of outstanding defensive play. You can see it, I’ll suggest, in their on-ice demeanour and hear it in their post-game comments. They are tired of coming up short in the Stanley Cup playoffs, determined to do all they can to avoid losing out in 2024, and willing to hammer on toes to get there.
That brings me to the one team that can beat this Oilers squad. There is only one.
The Oilers have all the ingredients to win. They know how to do it. They know how to defend and to hit, to attack with patience and check with discipline. If they don’t win the Stanley Cup, they’ll have only themselves to blame.
No other team can beat them.
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As you said, it's pretty well the same trash. When will they learn? It's beyond just drinking kool-aid and seems more like brain damage.