Pretty much the first thing Jackson said when he took over was that loose lips sink ships and that needed to change in a big way.
Unless it was part of the deal. SJ agrees to take on Ceci's cap hit in exchange for a younger, promising, cost-controlled RHD only if the Oilers add a 3rd and Holloway.
I would agree with that. But also say that in Ceci’s case, he is what he is, he’s not getting any better, and is only serviceable in his role. Broberg should be better than him soon. Kulak will be a loss, no doubt but that’s the price you pay when you get royally screwed by the Blues. Atleast it’s only 3rd pair minutes effected.
Cause without it a team would match 100% of the time and trade if they can’t keep it
Ceci with Nurse sucks. We arent losing much. Broberg is unproven next to Nurse really, can’t say he’s not a fit there when we’ve barely seen it and Broberg is only just scratching the surface of who he will become as a player.
I'm leaning towards the club not matching either. Dumping Ceci could mean they are going in a less costly direction and that's not Broberg.
JJ runs a right ship. Nobody saw any of the draft day, McLeod, Bourgault, Podkolzin, Ceci trades coming and absolutely nobody thought that they could re-sign everybody but Foegele and Desharnais and also add two top 6 forwards. The Bowman move was sort of telegraphed but that's another story.
No one claimed that GMs don’t care about offer sheets. They said that a GM wouldn’t care about their RFA signing a low value offer sheet because then the other GM would have just don’t their work for them. If Lowe would have signed Penner to a $2M avg offer sheet then Burke probably would have bought him a bottle of scotch. But you’re right things 100% need to align for an offer sheet to be worth attempting. Part of the things aligning for the Blues was that most figured the Oilers wouldn’t be able to create enough cap space to match both offer sheets.
no shortage of insiders making shit up
I don't give a shit about that. I want the best team and I want it cap compliant with Draisaitl, Bouchard and McDavid (next season) locked up long term. If shoving someones face in dog shit is the motivation behind the formation of the roster the likelihood of success isn't very high when it's all said and done.
Said exactly this 5 days ago. There just isn't any. Waiving would be petty and pointless and worse would signal that the Oilers are still not above such treatment of players. Matching and then waiving the player would be noted around the NHLPA and with player agents. It is not the seeds you should want to sow..
I'm sure they're exploring the market out there with the compensation picks involved for a top 4D, but ultimately there's no reason for them to match until the deadline. Gives them more options to explore, and less time for St Louis. No reason for us to do them any favours and give them extra time to try to fix their horrifically bad blue line.
This is the right move. Take options and mitigate as the Oilers have done and not let the opponent team know your hand until the clock strikes. The Oilers are in the position of exercising any option and responsibly giving themselves the full length of time to discern what to do. Not happy they got into this position but they've done right things since to provide options.
Hard to blame the players when they're offered more than they've seen in their lifetimes on a contract either. Especially Broberg, his deal is over double what he was set to make. That's life changing money for these guys.
Isn't that the normal way it is done?
What would be really wild is if the Oilers hold an early presser tomorrow, letting people think they are announcing something about these offer sheets, only to announce a sweet Draisaitl contract instead, ha ha ha.
