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Originally Posted by Coach
Appreciate Oil Stain for staying in the hornets nest on stuff like this. I'm always curious about reasonable Oiler fans but can't muster the care to go through the HF chiadenfraude.
Gotta be weird to be looking at your team like that. By comparison, the Flames and fans were largely blind-sided by Johnny and Chucky leaving. Oilers are going to be looking down the barrel for a whole season knowing there's really no option but to implode this thing.
The smart thing to do would be to trade both McDavid and Leon now for a huge haul and just start over. Sucks, but it happens and sometimes you gotta bite the bullet. Otherwise you're just going to run out the clock and be left with nothing or very little.
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Tough part for the oilers management is they sold the whole decade of darkness on hope. The oilers fans were rewarded with year after year of embarrassing seasons until they finally lucked into McDavid. And, after all that, they will finish the McDavid era with no cups, they will try to sell hope again. Hope that you’ll get a young player better than McDavid? That you’ll handle that era better?
I know the fans will buy in anyways. What else can fans do? But the frustration they will feel will probably be worse than any other fanbases going into a rebuild.