VainGretzky
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Feels like free agency all over again
So the Oilers are making us younger on D. Droping our older guys that were marginal, for their positions. Good luck to Ceci, but it gets better without him. Move Kulak too, for a equal right hander, and were laughing !It's really hard to overpay for broberg, but we need upgrades on D. Good chance he outperforms Ceci. We need some youth and speed on this team. I trade Ceci, I retire Perry. Lots of upside potencial. We are not going to win with a bunch of older, slower players. Ceci is not that old, but he plays that way, and he's not a good match for Nurse. At 3.2, that's most of the salary for Broberg. It's a calculated gamble, to upgrade that top 4
my prediction... they let both walk. Hope that one or two of Podkolzin, Savoie, Lavoie, etc end up making the team over the next year or 2 to help replace Holloway. As for Broberg, he's just too big of a gamble (combination of $$$, inexperience, and him being LD) to be the right fit for the Oiler's biggest hole which is 2nd pairing RD.
I'd sign Barrie to a 1 year deal at 1 million. Then be looking to find the right upgrade at 2nd pairing RD as soon as they can find the right guy/contract.
I want to match on Holloway and have him play as the 4th line centre for 2 straight years with no PP timeMy prediction is that they retain Broberg and let Holloway walk. I think the Podkolzin trade signalled the end of Holloway and the Ceci trade signalled the retention of Broberg.
I'd sign J Schultz knowing he could hold his own on a 2nd pairing with Nurse of Broberg faulters, something I wouldn't be confident saying about Barrie.
Start the season with
Ekholm-Bouchard
Nurse-Broberg
Kulak-Schultz
Stetcher
I also think we end up trading Broberg next summer as he obviously doesn't want to be here but we'll get much better value than a 2nd.
Yep. N9 idea why he suggested we could match and trade them right awayFunny how the esteemed hockey guru/dumbass David Staples was one of the .00001, lol. And people parroted his stupidity. I’d hope the rest of us knew the rules from paying attention in the past.
I want to match on Holloway and have him play as the 4th line centre for 2 straight years with no PP time
Skinner - McDavid - Hyman
RNH - Draisaitl - Arvidsson
Janmark - Henrique - Brown
Podkolzin - Holloway - Perry
Ryan
LTIR: Kane
Kane in for Podz for Game 1, Round 1
Destroy them again like the Kostin trade?Just for fun, I kind of hope that Bowman has a trade lined up for the Blues 2nd and 3rd that blows away the value of Broberg and Holloway. Like, a true 2nd pair partner for Nurse. I know it isn't likely, but I'd laugh hysterically if we got better pieces with St. Louis' picks than St. Louis did.
Neither can be traded for a year if matched. They can be waived however...So which one of them goes to San Jose just to make this spicy? Grier was pretty accommodating with this deadline only 2 days away.
Yeah it feels realistic that they match both and waive Holloway to the Sharks.Neither can be traded for a year if matched. They can be waived however...
I think all that drama is a lot more in the heads of the fans than the team management. They knew they were at risk of this happening. They know the rules of the CBA that they agreed to. They knew the status of the stalled negotiations with their players.I would argue it’s about sending a message to discourage offer sheets in the future. I’m not saying go full Carolina but if they have a chance to be a thorn in the blues side in the future they absolutely should.
There’s a reason there are very few offer sheets. The blues offer sheeting not 1 but 2 players is almost unheard of. It’s a clear line in the sand.
That would be kind of amazing.Yeah it feels realistic that they match both and waive Holloway to the Sharks.
Distinct possibility.Yeah it feels realistic that they match both and waive Holloway to the Sharks.
Why do you think there have been almost no offer sheets in the past?I think all that drama is a lot more in the heads of the fans than the team management. They knew they were at risk of this happening. They know the rules of the CBA that they agreed to. They knew the status of the stalled negotiations with their players.
The Oilers legit will not have a chance to be that thorn. They won’t have any cap space for many years, they won’t be able to overpay (which offersheets always are) for players on another team when they can barely squeeze their own players into the cap.
Hopefully if anything they learnt that they need to do a better job in the future of securing their own RFAs, and don’t go around trying to get revenge.
That would be kind of amazing.
Because they're seldom worth it. Either the team matches and moves on or the player is gone for far above their value. They're a tool for GMs without better options. Kevin Lowe used them because nobody wanted to be here.Why do you think there have been almost no offer sheets in the past?
Yeah it feels realistic that they match both and waive Holloway to the Sharks.
Or the realistic prediction of they sign both, or at the very minimum Brobergmy prediction... they let both walk. Hope that one or two of Podkolzin, Savoie, Lavoie, etc end up making the team over the next year or 2 to help replace Holloway. As for Broberg, he's just too big of a gamble (combination of $$$, inexperience, and him being LD) to be the right fit for the Oiler's biggest hole which is 2nd pairing RD.
I'd sign Barrie to a 1 year deal at 1 million. Then be looking to find the right upgrade at 2nd pairing RD as soon as they can find the right guy/contract.