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Now I’m really sorry I bumped the thread. Back on topic, please, or we’ll have to lock it and send it back to the dust bin.
I don’t understand why you’re getting treated poorly here.Broberg asked for a trade back in December 2023
he never rescinded it.
You may have not patience for oiler fans but I came here to give context to WHY this happened. I have done nothing to antagonize blues fans or the team. I have bashed the oiler management for how they were blind to something A LOT of people.
And I will take the high ground in this discussion--unless you are saying Broberg's play is based 100% on how the blues developed him. If so how?
Oilers management screwed up big time
Thank you.Wtf? Since when do we run off other fans who come to our board and act respectfully? When they are jerks or trolls, sure. But this guy was a polite visitor and a couple of y’all shat on him. Not cool. We are better than that.
Sorry you're getting attacked around here. That's lame because you're being completely polite/reasonable.AS an oiler Fan I have only one problem. We knew for 10 months Broberg DID NOT want to be an oiler and the question I have been asking is why oiler did not trade him when trade talks went nowhere? Oilers could have offered him 10 mill a year for 10 years and he wold have turned it down
Halloway I have no answer for except the oilers were and are in cap hell.
Wtf? Since when do we run off other fans who come to our board and act respectfully? When they are jerks or trolls, sure. But this guy was a polite visitor and a couple of y’all shat on him. Not cool. We are better than that.
Sorry you're getting attacked around here. That's lame because you're being completely polite/reasonable.
However, I don't agree with the bolded. He requested a trade when he was in Bakersfield, where he remained until the last 2 games of the regular season. Development opportunity aside, that was a large financial hit. Being in the AHL cost him about half a million dollars in earnings last season compared to being in the NHL. There isn't a 22 year, former top 10 pick alive who wouldn't be frustrated to take that kind of pay cut. I think it is fair to say that he believed that he was an NHL-caliber player that should have been making NHL money. And when that opportunity wasn't presenting itself, he asked to be traded to a team where he would be in the NHL.
We know that he did not want to be a Bakersfield Condor making a $70,000 salary. We did not know that he didn't want to be an Oiler.
That is an important distinction, because a 1 way, 7 figure contract would have solved the financial issue. The Oilers likely believed that they could repair the relationship with a 1 way deal and a verbal commitment that he'd be an every day NHL player in 2024/25.
I think Edmonton botched it by not leaving more space for him, and (reportedly) playing hardball in negotiations. But I don't think it was a mistake to believe that they could repair the relationship.
Bang on my friendBroberg and Halloway are going to break out for us this year I just know it. They both got seasoning and put up good numbers in the AHL and have good playoff experience now too, and they’re at the age where they should start to blossom in the NHL.
I can’t f***ing wait for the season to start!
He doesn’t speak for the rest of us, appreciate your post and good luck this year man, you guys will be fun to watchyou are taking shots at me--I understand that. SO be it.
I simply swung by to say you guys got a hell of a player and my team screwed up. I realize how that might offend some people on this board.
He doesn’t speak for the rest of us, appreciate your post and good luck this year man, you guys will be fun to watch
I was not trying to antagonize anyone. If I did I apologize.
You guys lucked out into two players that are young and good. Oilers just screwed up everything with them both. You guys have a GM that understand how important it is to have cap space available and when given the the chance he pounced on not one but tow good young players. Why the oilers did not trade Broberg at the draft is beyond me--he made it clear he wanted out. Oiler management looks to be a shit show again. We are wasting not one but two generational talents and we will be in cap hell again next year and it may cost us Bouchard now