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Originally Posted by Textcritic
If they win this season, they will be the oldest team in history to have done so.
It feels like a massive stretch for an old team, coming off a long playoff run, to get through four rounds successfully in today's game. I think they missed their best chance, and it gets more and more remote moving forward.
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Yup. Their best chance was last season, and the so-called "two best players in the game" were both complete no-shows in game 7 like the perennial losers that they are.
They're obviously still a playoff team and yes, they might have a shot again this year. But the odds of everything just falling into place again for them like they did in last year's playoffs are very, very slim. Making the finals in back to back seasons is incredibly difficult. Sure, Tampa and Florida have both done it in recent years, but those teams were stacked from top to bottom and were much more well-rounded with strong D and goaltending as well as elite offence. This current Oilers roster is sorely lacking in two of those things.