from Terry Jones of the Edmonton Sun,

It’ll be no place for a nervous person.

Training camp for the Edmonton Oilers may look like fun and games from the stands at Rogers Place, but with medicals Thursday, for the following 16 days until they fly to Europe and return, it will be a season of applied pressure from just about every direction on just about everybody involved.

If the fourth edition of the Connor McDavid Era Oilers misses the playoffs again, just about everybody gets fired.

Peter Chiarelli gets canned.

Todd McLellan gets gassed.

A whole new collection of assistant coaches will be sacked.

And the worst possible thing — a rebuild of the rebuild of the rebuild — will transpire.

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