EDMONTON - Wait ‘til next year?
Uh, no.
Sorry folks.
Craig MacTavish couldn’t do that.
The Edmonton Oilers GM refused to sell the oldest package of hype and hope there is to sell in sports.
“For me, I would forecast it as another developmental year,” he said of next year.
Get ready for the Oilers to tie the NHL record for most consecutive years out of the playoffs at 10.
Monday, at the ninth annual autopsy of the team at the end of a failed season the general manager virtually guaranteed the Oilers were NOT going to make the 37-point surge they’d need to be playing for the Stanley Cup.