As for the Oilers being better this year, let's look at how their team has changed over the summer...
Forwards: added Arvidsson, Skinner and Podzolkin, lost Foegele, McLeod and Holloway. Might have gotten a little more talented, but got older, slower and smaller. They carved a hole in their PK, and lost a lot of the heavy lifting on their forecheck.
Defense: they added Brown, Stecher and Emberson and lost Ceci, Desharnais and Broberg. They got smaller, and substantially worse. Ceci was a stalwart on the PK, so that's another blow to it.
PP: same
PK: worse
Speed: worse
Physicality: worse
Offense: probably better, but they will have trouble getting out of their owz zone, which will hamper the offence.
Someone tell me how the team got better.
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