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Edmonton’s Great Expectations
by Alanah McGinley on 04/04/08 at 04:23 PM ET
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From Robin Brownlee at the Canadian Press (via Yahoo),
“I’ve never been afraid of expectations,” coach Craig MacTavish said. “If you don’t have expectations, you very seldom have success. Knowing expectations are warranted, and in this case they’re very warranted, the expectation is we’re going to pick up where we left off at the end of this year.”
Despite losing captain Ethan Moreau, Shawn Horcoff, Sheldon Souray and Raffi Torres to season-ending injuries, the Oilers fashioned a record of 14-5-1 in their final 20 games.
“There’s a ton of optimism,” Horcoff said. “At the same time, nothing is guaranteed. There’s a lot of good teams. “We just want to get to the point that we’re one of them year-in and year-out. We want to build some consistency. If you’re going to be a team that’s going to win the division, especially our division, you need the depth. There is lots to look forward to.”
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The Oilers with their young players (Gagner, Cogliano, Gilbert,Nilsson, Grebeshkov etc), veterans (Horcoff, Hemsky, Penner, Souray etc) and their still deep farm system (Schremp, Chorney, Petry, Wild etc) will very likely be one of the top teams in the NHL over the next three years. It will be interesting though, to see how they do next season, sophomore slumps do often happen and if it hits them that maybe the only thing that could derail them.
Posted by nhlbusinessblogger on 04/04/08 at 04:39 PM ET