Preview: Introducing the 2009-10 Edmonton Oilers!

NHL season previews often sell you an impressive bill of goods before you realize, at the end of the season, you're holding an empty box. Which makes using advertisements and infomercials the appropriate template for Puck Daddy's 2009-10 NHL Season Previews, presented each day throughout September.Last Season's Ad Copy: Eleventh in the Western Conference, fourth in the Northwest Division (38-35-9, 85 points). It was a difficult season that cost Coach Craig MacTavish his job, but not before he bestowed upon us one of the greatest sports terms of all-time: The Vortex of Death. Otherwise known as when "you lose a game and you get so down and you come in the next day and it's tough to get out of bed the next morning."The Oilers may have had a few of those down the stretch last season, losing eight out of 11 games in missing the playoffs for the third straight season. Offensive regressions across the board from key players, lackluster special teams play ... some...