from Damien Cox of Sportsnet,
The pressure is mounting in Edmonton, the pressure to do something. Anything. Now.
Which is, of course, absolutely the wrong idea. It’s the kind of thinking that has, for example, kept the Toronto Maple Leafs away from the winner’s circle for 47 years.
The idea, assuming this was all a plan, was to build a powerful hockey machine in Edmonton, something similar to the squad that ruled the sport in the 1980s. Even if that was impossible in a salary cap era, multiple high picks over multiple years was supposed to deliver a championship worthy outfit.
It hasn’t yet. But that doesn’t mean it won’t.
But it won’t if the plan gets changed now and decisions are made to make the short-term more palatable.
This was always going to be extremely painful. And one imagines it must be for Oiler loyalists.
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