[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Lol doesn't matter now but I'm still trying to figure out how Mike Smith finishes the playoffs, doesn't leave or get stretchered out, but wallah, suddenly he can't play hockey any more and failed his fitness testing that he supposedly showed up for.

Duncan Keith opts out of playing his final year as well after it looked like things are business as usual and magically winds up with a cushy role in hockey ops around the same time.

Kane waits several months to get a surgery he knows he needs as a high profile part of a team trying to compete for a championship. No one bothers to ask why he's less than hurried to get it done in time to get back in during the season, despite having forever to do it.

Just so convenient in all three cases.

Although I can see Smith getting fed up and quitting hockey and leaving the oilers with no choice but to find a lame excuse. So maybe that case wasn't entirely the oilers being shady.