So many 'ifs'.
We should really give the Nuck's the cup from last season.
While I agree that basing things on ifs is sketchy and in the end the oilers won and nothing changes that but I mean Silovs had an 877sv% and the nucks still came within 1 goal of advancing. I think it's fair to say the vezina runner up who was undefeated against you guys would have pushed us over the edge.
None of that matters obviously, you guys won and that's that it's just funny how much a team that by 90% of oilers fans (not you) literally can't stop shit talking the nucks, even when threads have nothing to do with them, if we suck so bad and lived off PDO etc, we sure get a lot of space in those oilers fans heads.
As for this thread I've been adamant that you guys are a flawed team that still only has one way to succeed and that's on the back of #97 and it's ridiculous how the media (probably pushed by the league due to #97 goosing the ratings) has tried to shove the narrative that the oilers are the best team in hockey when it's painfully obvious they aren't.
How the media can say what they've been saying,
ing over every move they made makes it painfully obvious there's an agenda, look at how many games you guys get in the US market.
I mean there's a few examples but the spin on Emberson and Podkolzin or the spin on the offer-sheets really stand out.
I think Bouchard is a product of #97 and the team is slow, gutless and can't defend to save it's life and Skinner is unreliable and the team makeup makes little sense.
HOWEVER, despite all of that McDrai can absolutely make up for a lot of that as they showed last year but I don't think that's a recipe that is a given to work two years in a row.