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A so-called rivalry: in Alberta's tale of two small-market neighbors with the same fiscal challenges, the Flames can't keep up the Oilers. (NHL).
You can't miss the mural.
On a parking garage across the street from Skyreach Centre, the home of the Oilers, five massive rings, six stories high, have been painted to symbolize the franchise's Stanley Cup championships.
"And now for the other hand" reads the message.
This celebration of success--the Oilers were the toast of the NHL with five titles in a seven-year period (1984-90)--provides motivation for current players, even if the last Cup victory was almost 13 years ago.
For the jaded and cynical, however, the mural is a slap at Calgary and the Flames. Only 200 miles to the south is--in the hockey world--Alberta's second city. ...
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