The Oilers are a mirage and will come down to earth quite quickly when games matter. If things don't go 100% their way, they can't compete when teams hit that next gear in the playoffs.
The one thing Holland has done is being able kick the can down the road long enough for a bunch of the contracts to come up to open up a bunch of cap space after the expansion draft. What will be interesting to see how they manage that cap space. He has to kind of go all in to appease McDavid and Draisaitl because they don't have the luxury to wait a couple more years to hope players graduate and become impact players.
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