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Lessons to Learn
by Alanah McGinley on 05/27/08 at 12:01 PM ET
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From David Staples in his Cult of Hockey blog at the Edmonton Journal,
At this point, I would place the Penguins development alongside the Oilers of 1981 or 1982.
The ‘Guins [...] are getting schooled by a superior team, as happened to the Oilers in 1981, but also humiliated by their own inconsistent, nervous, not ready for prime time effort, as happened to the Oilers against the Kings in 1982, when the “choke” [word] was uttered in Edmonton, just as it is surely now being whispered in Pittsburgh.
The next few games will tell the story for the Pens. Are they really the Oilers of 1983, just a few hard lessons away from Stanley Cup dominance? Or is this a longer road yet? My guesstimate is its the latter. They’ve still got some serious eliminating to do of players who aren’t capable enough, as well as some major maturing of those who are.
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