Hibernia wrote on Wed, 09 October 2024 10:18

I'm glad the pre-season is over. For two reasons. 1) The pessimists can stop talking about the results from the pre-season. (They don't mean anything. During the Decade of Darkness there were several perfect or near-perfect pre-seasons.) 2) So, we can stop with all the projections of why the Oilers are going to win it all this year. The fact that there's a small majority of "experts" saying this team is the biggest pile of bandwagon-jumping I've seen since the Leafs made the playoffs during the Gilmour years. I like the team too, but it makes me nervous when EVERYONE likes them. (Once again, the Decade of Darkness has scarred me. We're not supposed to be this good, right? I mean, we are and it should've happened five years ago, but I digress. I'm preaching to the choir on here, right?)

On the topic of expert predictions :)

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Just to note, Florida did dominate everyones predictions last year!

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

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- MacT, 2015

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