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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I’ve been saying this for years.
When your rivals are great, it forces you to be great.
If all you have to do is be better than the Kelly Buchberger Oilers… that’s not impressive.
When a team in your own province has McDavid and Draisaitl, you can’t trot out Huberdeau and Kadri and pretend it’s okay to compete for 9th.
Not when the Oilers have won 7 rounds since 2017.
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I get it to some extent and internally you can say playoff rounds won count, but IMO there are really 2 goals.
1 get into the playoffs
2 Win the cup
As a fan I could care less if they won 7 rounds, they haven't won the cup.
internally for the organization you can look at them as steps, but in another 10 years if the team has won 20-30 playoff rounds and no cups, are they or have they really been great?
You can add a bunch of small goals to the list, like win the division, win the presidents trophy, win the Jennings award, win a round, win two rounds win the conference finals etc. But at the end of the day if you don't win the cup, none of those things really matter. Don't get me wrong a run is great as a fan. I just don't think it makes a team great unless they win a cup or multiple cups.
Anything can happen if you get in, so just get in.
after that anything short of winning the cup is a disappointment.