This is actually a great timeline.
Option 1, the Panthers win. Canadian heroes. Everybody who was still trying to discount Tkachuk and Bennett or got mad about people cheering them on has to eat crow or forever shut up.
Option 2, the Oilers win. The sick taste in our mouths is soothed by watching the most toxic CP summer ever seen. No one is safe. Calls for closing the E=NG thread occur, and calls for a show trial against Textcritic for choosing the name that inspired an Oilers cup begin. A CP “red scare” emerges where accusations of secret Oiler fandom reach an all-time high. Every player drafted, signed, or traded for/by the Flames is seen as the wrong move by the vocal minority. Trent recreates the wall of shame and goes back to cosplaying as a british person. After the yearly prospect polls somehow result in every prospect being ranked last, Bingo sells the board to stang, and FOI becomes a sub board of Oil on Ice. All insiders are banned, and in 2026 the last remaining threads on FOI are discussing Jankowski who has returned and become captain of the Calgary Flames.
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