Hockey Gay wrote:
This team went from a team that was retooling this season to Cup contenders yet again in the span of about three weeks. I know they're hot right now but calling up some guys from the AHL who look like Real. Ass. Hockey. Players. has helped alot. Unreal how good this organization is.
It's amazing what fixing up the back end has done. Getting rid of Daley, who wasn't good and wasn't trusted, was the first big step, then getting Erik Gustafsson up and working the Rozsival/Scuderi platoon was even bigger (though it's funny that every idiot with a keyboard said this was exactly what to do with Scuderi but the Hawks still tried him as a full-timer WITH Rozy for a while).
The Oilers have no paucity of reasons to kick themselves, but add to the list that they drafted Erik Gustafsson and didn't sign him, leaving the Hawks to scoop him up and get a bona fide second-pair D for nothing -- something the Oilers could use, God knows.
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Molly Lambert wrote:
The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.