How good? Best points per game season besides Bedard in the WHL in the past 23 years.
I too remember when a desperate Oilers fan base tried to convince themselves trades like Hall for Larsson, and many others were good trades when they got completely hosed. That's really all that is.
Please explain the bolded. Savoie just put up a 2.09ppg season in the WHL in his draft+2.
A lot of people would have taken McLeod for cap space, the lottery ticket is just a sweet bonus
Broberg and Holloway's QO's are 874.125k (1.74825M). They are currently 354.167K over the cap with 21 roster players. If you sent down Josh Brown and Perry (2.15M) you would be cap compliant with 47.583K cap space on a 21 man roster.
Not sure I understand this either. He played full seasons the two prior to last season. Furthermore, he came back and continued to rip it up, and even in the rehab stint with Rochester still managed 5 pts. in 6 GP (albeit with far better talents than what he'll see in BAK, depending). Shoulder injuries are tough to deal with but he came back and produced at the same astounding clip.
At least this regime wastes no time to weed out passengers. In the past, the likes of Jaypoo were getting too much of a rope.
Small, 1 game in the NHL, signed for three years. Sounds like a boom-and-bust project. But hey, they cleared the cap space.
Hall for Larsson was actually a decent trade in the context of 2016. I'd take Larsson over Hall even today.
It turned out ok especially given Hall's injuries in recent years, but it was still an overpay for a position of need at the time. This trade is obviously a much better example of the type of trade that Oilers fans used to cope over.
Not for the return. Should've been at least a first rounder and maybe a prospect considering how highly touted Hall was at the time.
Khaira comes to mind as well. His career also died when we finally got rid of him.
They definitely should’ve got more value for Hall at the time but sometimes you need to lose a trade to improve the team. I think this was that case. Besides Hall’s random Hart season, he hasn’t really been that good.
Savoie’s a top prospect that’s exceeded at every level he’s played in. He isn’t what you call “boom and bust project”.
At this point there isn't much to suggest that there is much "bust" likelihood with Savoie. He just put up one of the best WHL seasons of the past 20+ years. The only reason people are even mentioning him as a bust is because of his size, and I think thats really behind-the-times thinking. Small skilled players are littered throughout the league as impact or quality complementary players. We just signed one in Arvidsson. With the right balance in your line up like the Oilers have these types of players don't carry that much risk.
I highly doubt they'd send Perry down, he would be the most likely to get claimed. Option is Ryan at a little over $250K less so it screws over the savings to fit a 21 man roster.
