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Loach
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This comment is so rude. Lmao! "Who's a good little poster? Icelevel is! Yes you are. You're so good at posting." How do you like it? JC ...I can't stop laughing right now. Help me!
2CHAINZ
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I'll have what he's having.
Sens of Anarchy
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3 players from Carolina in that top 10. I guess 2 after they traded Necas lol.
Rod the Bod has everyone doing next level workouts to make sure they're speedy on the ice. If Carolina fires him, hope he comes here as an assistant coach. We might even bring back the stationary bike post game interviews!
Icelevel
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You know we only draft players 6’4” and up. Might as well have some fun with it.
Thank you though. I am a good little poster. My mommy agrees.
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Bjornar Moxnes
Stem Rødt og Felix Unger Sörum
Larionov
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If Brind'amour ever leaves Carolina he will have another head coaching job within a few days. It will be a copy of when Montgomery left the Bruins...
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Sens of Anarchy
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Pretty wild that every major move the Oilers made this off-season blew up in their face.
Traded McLeod for Savoie, didn't re-sign Foegele and let Broberg and Holloway get poached by St. Louis for a 2nd+3rd.
12.471M ended up being the cost for those 4 players, but had they offered Broberg and Holloway fair extensions instead of trying to get them to accept pennies on the dollar for the priviledge of playing on a potential contender, I suspect they could have got that down to closer to 10-11M and avoided the offersheets altogether.
Instead they spent 11.75M on veterans Skinner, Arvidsson, Henrique and Klingberg, who have a combined 68 points in 194 games (29P/82GP average).
Meanwhile the 4 younger players they let go have a combined 162 points in 266 games (50P/82GP average).
Got much older and much worse. The Dorion special.
Traded McLeod for Savoie, didn't re-sign Foegele and let Broberg and Holloway get poached by St. Louis for a 2nd+3rd.
12.471M ended up being the cost for those 4 players, but had they offered Broberg and Holloway fair extensions instead of trying to get them to accept pennies on the dollar for the priviledge of playing on a potential contender, I suspect they could have got that down to closer to 10-11M and avoided the offersheets altogether.
Instead they spent 11.75M on veterans Skinner, Arvidsson, Henrique and Klingberg, who have a combined 68 points in 194 games (29P/82GP average).
Meanwhile the 4 younger players they let go have a combined 162 points in 266 games (50P/82GP average).
Got much older and much worse. The Dorion special.
RNH stepped up with McDrai out, but if the Oil somehow choke and don't make the playoffs, the Jeff Skinner curse will be beyond real. Arvidson, Henrique, Janmark, each have NMCs as well. That Nurse contract will forever stop them from being able to put together a reliable D core. Then again, if McDrai just score their way to victory, it doens't matter how many plugs they have on defense.
Matching the signing sheets was an obvious choice, but I agree if they had been smart, they could have had them for less.
Both of them played well in the Cup Finals! Very odd at the time and now it has major implications.
BonHoonLayneCornell
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I couldn't believe they let Holloway go. You could see on that run that he had the juice. Idiotic imo.
Also thought they made a mistake re-upping Pickard and not aggressively pursuing lankinen with him just sitting there. At least get a guy you think can be a threat if you need to go there. Pickard is that perennial backup, low ceiling type tender.
Still have high hopes for that team though, I think it'll come together and I'm hoping so. Still my B team.
Also thought they made a mistake re-upping Pickard and not aggressively pursuing lankinen with him just sitting there. At least get a guy you think can be a threat if you need to go there. Pickard is that perennial backup, low ceiling type tender.
Still have high hopes for that team though, I think it'll come together and I'm hoping so. Still my B team.
Dan Patrick
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Bowman is an absolute moron and the poster boy for nepotism hires, but to be fair most of the moves the Oilers made last off-season were the work of McDavid's agent Jeff Jackson.
Broberg and Holloway were lost to the Blues after Bowman took over, but there wasn't much that Bowman could do at that point after being backed into a corner due to the Skinner, Arvidsson and Henrique signings eating up all of their cap space.
BonHoonLayneCornell
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I don't know if he's that bad is he?
Some of the moves and RFA lowballing were made by Jeff Jackson before Bowman was brought in.
Yeah I could understand letting Broberg go, given 4.5M was far more than he should have gotten with his track record at the time, but 2.3M for Holloway was completely fair and a 3rd round pick as compensation is nothing.
I'll take Dorion over Bowman. Dorian might be an awful GM, but his character isn't as messed up as Bowman.
BonHoonLayneCornell
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That was also a bit of an unprecedented play by the Blues, granted, they should have matched after and picked up the pieces. Lots of teams play hardball with RFA's, so I still expected them to sign. They'd each barely had a cup of coffee.
Blotto71
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I'm hopeful that Staios took note and that's why he got Greig locked up, and maybe even factored into dealing for Zetterlund - another guy that should fall into that same Greig-esque range and has the potential to contribute offensively. Perron is (finally) looking like a good addition. Question remains though what will become of Giroux, he's not a full-time top-6 player anymore...bring him back on the 3rd/4th line with PP time? Add a top-6 winger?
