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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
You seem to have forgotten that E=NG
Always and forever.
It's a rivalry dude. Don't expect fans to give their most hated team credit.
Particularly with how they built their team.
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I was a fan during the peak of the rivalry in the 80s, and I don’t recall anyone back then claiming the Oilers weren’t a great team. The whole point of getting excited about beating the Oilers was beating the best team in the league.
Maybe the whole
the Oilers aren’t even very good thing is a legacy of so few meaningful games played between the two teams over the last 25 years. Or maybe it’s just easier to express something so clearly untrue online than it is to speak it out loud in front of other people IRL.