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chl.ca)The league's published table: the Oil Kings' record and points beside their result.
WIRED 2026-10-08: read by pipeline/sources/oilkings.py (registry.claim). Server-rendered: under each conference's <h2>, a header row of labels (#, Team, GP, W, L, OTL, SOL, PTS, PCT, ...) and one row of <div> cells per team; cells are mapped by label and a row whose GP is not W+L+OTL+SOL raises. The bare URL selects the current season's conference view (/whl/standings/295/conference/, '2026 - 27 Regular Season', on 2026-10-08). The record is printed only when this page's season is the schedule page's regular season and its GP equals the schedule's finals, so a table from another season, or one game behind, is absent rather than stale.
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