Star Trek Enterprise has a great intro and it encapsulates the Oilers and their will to stay in the game, when I lost faith, they proved me wrong, and how I have enjoyed being wrong.

When the Oilers were last in the league I turned off the Oilers refusing to let them hurt me again with a lacklustre effort and broken dreams, and throughout this playoffs I watched but with a side eye slant thinking "Oh here were go, cue the collapse" The western final Game 3 was a horrible, I lost faith and kept losing faith as the games moved forward.

The prove me wrong again. How sweet it is to feel this sense of, "I know nothing!" No one knows how the next games are going to go but what a ride it will be.

Fugly win, but to win in these playoffs you have to win games you shouldn't. I wasn't nervous when Dallas scored, but holy clench in the last 6 or so minutes.

I joined this board just after the Pronger stuff in 2006, back when Twitter wasn't a thing, the blue mile is where people went nuts and ladies showed their assets (although I did see an incident in Rogers where someone exposed herself,), and I needed a venue to talk about the Oilers and this lovely site was here for me. 18 years ago, and a few of you are still here. I'm overcome by the users of this welcoming site, both old and new and I'm thankful to MJ who continues this on.

The decade of darkness, the defending and tearing down of Pat Quinn, Hitchock, Eakins, Hall, Omark, Paajarvi, Eberle and I was a season ticket holder from 2007 to 2020 (when the pandemic hit), I had lots of personal changes, got a wonderful little one and lots of people sadly have left this earth.

This run has made me introspective, and I'm actually cherishing the Oilers wins one by one proving me wrong time and time again, keep doing it.

Too all of you on this forum, thanks for being here. (even you RD hehehehe)

Let's Go Oilers ...

LFG.

The very definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing expecting different results.

Generally Disappointed.