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Are the 2024-2025 Edmonton Oilers the biggest preseason cup favourites of all time?

Such fake hype. McDavid will get them far enough because their division is garbage, but no chance they repeat that legendary PK in the playoffs again.

And I half want to say Skinner will find a way to not play a playoff game somehow.
 
benfranklin said:
Such fake hype. McDavid will get them far enough because their division is garbage, but no chance they repeat that legendary PK in the playoffs again.

And I half want to say Skinner will find a way to not play a playoff game somehow.
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Their PK run last playoffs was a total fluke. Just like Skinner playing well above his head for a lot of the playoffs but had to be saved by Pickard.

If their PK is that good, I want to see them post a 97% PK for the entire regular season.
 
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SeanMoneyHands said:
Their PK run last playoffs was a total fluke. Just like Skinner playing well above his head for a lot of the playoffs but had to be saved by Pickard.

If their PK is that good, I want to see them post a 97% PK for the entire regular season.
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They're the same old Oilers. Tons of offense. Amazing PP. No D and no G.
 
In my lifetime? I can name a few....

The 1983 NY Islanders
The 1985 and 86 Edmonton Oilers
The 1988 Edmonton Oilers
The 1990 Calgary Flames
The 1993 Pittsburgh Penguins

I'm not sure about the cap era, but I am pretty sure the Red Wings of 1998 were the consensus favourites by most.
 
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Roof Daddy said:
The Rangers and Stars have the more complete teams. Trade deadline can change that and I think it’s obvious that we’ll be all in. Those teams will be as well, but we maybe have more to gain from a trade deadline upgrade than they do. But it’s a lot of ifs.

Heiskanen and Fox are better #1 D than Ekholm (I’m not putting Bouchard there).

Shesterkin and Oettinger far better than Skinner.
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The division is still a huge benefit for the Oilers. The central is a grind -- it showed on Dallas last year.
 
benfranklin said:
They're the same old Oilers. Tons of offense. Amazing PP. No D and no G.
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Oilers are worse on the backend this year and bottom 6 depth-wise, losing Holloway and Broberg is gonna cost them. Both of them played great in St. Louis the other night and contributed to the win.
 
The Oiler team from the first 3 games of the finals has showed up tonight. Pretty terrible. Only one game, but still.
 
benfranklin said:
They're the same old Oilers. Tons of offense. Amazing PP. No D and no G.
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I'm still shocked by the level of play of tight D that Knoblauch was able to get out of that group last playoffs. I'm not sure if he'll be able to replicate that this playoffs.
 
EdmFlyersfan said:
I wonder what McDavid is saying in-between periods?
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I can't imagine too much given that he's probably still tender from head reattachment surgery after that brutal decapitation in the Vancouver series.

Also, lol. Lmao, even. (He writes as Calgary makes it a 1 goal game vs. his team.)
 
I see them degressing from last year and I will bet Hyman is off of Mcdavids line by December and he ends the year with like 20 goals
 
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