Holland was way way way better. Im starting to think we’re gonna miss him when it comes to trades (NOT signing or drafting).
List of Holland's trades as an Oiler:
Lucic+3rd round pick for Neal - small win as getting rid of Lucic was essential, but still paying for Neal buyout today.
John Marino for 6th round pick - meh
Kyle Brodziak + 4th for Mike Green - meh
Two x2nd round picks (plus fan favourite Sam Gagner) for Athanasiou - absolutely horrendous
5th round pick for Tyler Ennis - meh
4th round pick for Kulikov - meh
Caleb Jones + 3rd round pick for Duncan Keith - Absolutely horrendous. Should have received a 1st round pick to take Keith from Chicago.
Ethan Bear for Warren Foegele - win. Foegele was a decent contributor here for 3 years and Bear has bounced around.
Lagesson+2nd for Kulak - win. If Kulak had just been a rental I don't think it would have been worth it. But he's been a good player for us since.
4th round pick for Derek Brassard - bad trade
Kassian + 1st + 2nd + 3rd for 1st - horrendous (to be fair more so an issue of the awful contract he gave to Kassian).
Samorukov for Kostin - win
Puljujarvi for some rando - meh
Barrie+Schaeffer for Ekholm - A++ massive win
Bjugstad for 4th - meh
Yamamoto+Kostin for futures - meh. Didn't have the cap space to re-sign Kostin and at least didn't give up anything to dump Yamamoto
4th rounder for Troy Stetcher - meh. Team never wanted to play him and then he got hurt.
1st+4th for Henrique and Carrick - win because Henrique re-signed but a 1st was a lot to give up for a guy that was relegated to 3rd line duty.
Overall I think that is a pretty mediocre list of trades. One really great trade in 5 years when the team was trying to win a cup isn't nearly good enough imo. A handful of other decent trades. A bunch of meh deadline acquisitions that never really helped us get anywhere. And a couple really terrible ones.
(I left out ones that just involved AHL guys or just picks)
The thing that stands out to me is that of all those trades and additions, only Ekholm and Foegele were positive value guys who had team control beyond the season we acquired them. Everyone else was UFA or an RFA we couldn't qualify. We re-signed Kulak and Henrique and obviously their time here played a big part in that. But both of them made it into free agency before we signed them.
Overall I don't think Holland was ever proactive enough in improving the roster. He never gave the impression he was turning over every stone and looking in every corner to make deals that could make the team better and he all but refused to make "NHL trades" (players for players).
I don't think I can bring myself to look through the Chiarelli trades though lol. The Talbot and Maroon ones he made were really good. After that is a calamity of cluster f***ery.