guymez
The Seldom Seen Kid
- Mar 3, 2004
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Only one more win but playing a much tougher schedule. And besides the two games at Dallas and Washington, the Oilers have actually been in their games and could have won. The Flames, on the other hand, have been pretty much dominated every game and have played awful. Just look at the goal differential between the Oilers and Flames right now.
Anyway, after a decade long of being losers and getting crapped on by other fanbases including Calgary's, I don't think we're being too cocky here. I don't see anyone tooting the Oilers too much.. rather we're just enjoying the struggles of the Flames and its irrelevant of how the Oilers do.
I am not going to be too smug. As bad as the Flames have been the Oilers only have 2 more points than the Flames...and they now have a game in hand.
The Oilers are improving but they are still a bad hockey team. They still have a loser mentality and its going to take a lot of this season to change that. Thats what the formula of losing does...it creates a loser psychology thats difficult to change. Learning to win is going to take time.
Mclellan has his hands full and I am very glad he is at the helm because I believe he will turn this around.
Lots of pain yet to come though.
As for Hamilton he has been terrible...but on the other hand Sekera has been pretty bad (for the most part) for the Oilers. If Sekera needs time to adjust then I think its only fair to suggest that Hamilton (who is much younger) does too.
Even though I hope the Flames fail miserably if I was to bet money then I would bet that the Flames improve before the Oilers do.
They (unfortunately) dont have as many holes as the Oilers do.
We shall see how things plays out for these teams.
I would LOVE to be wrong.