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Wrong Oilers history is repeating itself

By Mike Heika
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, September 28, 2003

To watch a playoff game in Edmonton is to understand what true grandeur the NHL can reach, even in 2003. To walk home from another Oilers playoff loss is to understand what a true frustration the NHL has become, especially in 2003. No team underscores the problems of the league better than Edmonton. The fans are hungry for a winner. They support their team and its wide-open style of play. They make a playoff game a fist-pumping, lung-ripping rave of an event. And yet they go home every year wi ...

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