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Oilers coach Dave Tippett hopes the suspended season doesn't ultimately prevent his players from gaining some valuable playoff experience. (SportsnetSpec)

EDMONTON — The Oilers haven’t experienced a lot of post-seasons the past 15 years, but you can’t deny that they’ve built a pretty good team up here for the 2019-20 season. Fast, exciting, tons of promise.

“You get into that playoff series and you’ve got to find ways to win, and sometimes those ways are different every night.” And how valuable would it be for guys like McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Ethan Bear, Kailer Yamamoto and the rest of a team that finally looks like it could be a Cup contender for some time to come?

 

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Spec The season is done. The writing has been on the wall, and with hockey players testing positive, it has only added to the certainty of a lost season. But that shouldn’t mean the Oilers sucked. They were good, damn good. And if not for Covid, they would’ve made the playoffs.

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