Confirmed with Link: Oilers Do Not Match Broberg ($4.58M X2) & Holloway ($2.29M x 2) Offer Sheets | Oilers acquire STL 3rd '28 & Paul Fischer for Futures

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Oil management left themselves vulnerable with two RFA's floating out there. St. Louis is clearly prioritizing d-man Broberg with that money shot leveraged against a cheap Holloway as a consolation prize. A very thin Oilers prospect pool within a capped out team budget does the hard miles development to be caught vulnerable.

I'll speculate that Broberg isn't matched (likely St. Louis's real target) while Holloway is retained.

 

[foshizzle]

The GM can't force players to sign cheap deals.

Well, actually he can when the players don’t have any negotiation advantage. They dont have arb rights.

 

[FlameChampion]

I’m betting the agents for Broberg and Holloway were not signing lowball offers and were just waiting to see if an offer sheet would transpire.

The agents were probably nudging teams for offer sheets. I honestly think agents use the threat of offer sheets to get better deals for their clients more than we think. They usually just don’t get signed. Its hard to blame Broberg for signing that though.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Man if I have to spend the year watching Nurse and Ceci just get caved game in and game out, while watching Broberg and Parayko play all the hard minutes successfully for the Blues, f*** will that be infuriating and I will never stop talking about it.

Can't help but think the Oilers just assumed they'd sign for cheap and went about other business. They definitely got caught and it isn't a great look.

We went from the summer of Jackson to the summer of George so quickly...

 

[dss97]

I think they match Holloway but Broberg is as good as gone. What an absurd amount of money to offer for a guy who played like 10 good games. They are banking BIG on that sample because he was terrible the other 90 games he appeared in..

Time for Stan to work his LTIR magic and put Nurse on LTIR with an allergy to ice or pucks or something.

 

[Pass the Saitl Sauce]

Losing both Holloway and broberg for a 3rd and a 2nd would be mind numbing considering they both would have fetched firsts just yesterday.

And any players we bring in to replace Holloway/broberg will cost more than a 2nd/3rd

 

[Arpeggio]

Huge Broberg fan, no way you can match that contract. A bad team with cap space is buying a flyer on him, you can't compete with that.

If the Oilers lose both I don't know that the team is that much worse next season at least, it hurts in the long term though. Good thing they traded for Savoie.

 

[Davo Ikinzom]

Well, actually he can when the players don’t have any negotiation advantage. They dont have arb rights.

Clearly he can't, because the players can just hold out if they don't like the offer being made which is what happened here.

 

[Sra1974]

I mean if the agent thought he could get 4.5 on an offer sheet the oilers were never signing Broberg anyways. They were always gonna be way, way short of that amount so I’m not sure what they could have done.

 

[McJadeddog]

Man if I have to spend the year watching Nurse and Ceci just get caved game in and game out, while watching Broberg and Parayko play all the hard minutes successfully for the Blues, f*** will that be infuriating and I will never stop talking about it.

haha, 110%. But the million dollar question is: are you confident enough in Broberg's ability to do that to trade Ceci to make the cap space?

That is a MASSIVE bet on Broberg, and one that simply has to work out or you are boned. You at least know what you have in Ceci. It's a tough call, and I think I'd let Broberg walk myself, but its not an obvious decision I don't think.

Here are the current D that signed about the same contract as UFAs:

Just to give an idea of what type of player you get in UFA season for Broberg's money.

 

[Kerberos]

Knob better put the #1PP unit out with 5 mins left in a 8-1 game next year against the Blues.

 

[Little Fury]

Match Holloway, walk away from Broberg. Sucks but it is what it is.

 

[GMofOilers]

Bye bye boys, u sign contracts like that after watching vets take less to win a culture set by mcdavid and Drai they won’t be wanted in that dressing room, they are gone.

 

[Broberg Speed]

Take the picks and move on.

We'll add at the trade deadline.

That's what you got to do... a second and a third will buy something good at the deadline.

 

[Arpeggio]

Losing both Holloway and broberg for a 3rd and a 2nd would be mind numbing considering they both would have fetched firsts just yesterday.

And any players we bring in to replace Holloway/broberg will cost more than a 2nd/3rd

I'm not even sure that's true, maybe Holloway but the Broberg contract is stunning given his results.

 

[GOilers88]

I do like how suddenly this is a "management f***ed up" talking point.

Never change, boys.

 

[Porkleaker]

f*** off St. Louis, pieces of shit!!!!

 

[Ninety7]

That really sucks.

 

[Broberg Speed]

Match Holloway, walk away from Broberg. Sucks but it is what it is.

Holloway signed an offer sheet from the opposition. Good luck to him in St. Louis.

 

[CupofOil]

What....the.....f***? This is bad, really bad. They were depending on these two, Broberg specifically, to be impact players going forward and now they get only a 2nd and 3rd, because there's no way they can match. This is brutal.
People are gonna hate Bowman even more now lol. Damn

 

[Fourier]

This has nothing to do with the Bowman situation other than the delay in getting a GM in place. Armstrong was looking for these sorts of deals. BUt Bowman will wear the consequences if he can't make lemonade out of this lemon.

 

[fuswald]

He’s failed the 1st test by not signing these guys right away. This is his second test


Stan Bowmen effect

Disagree. This is Jackson. He was an agent so GMs likely saw him as the opposition.
Holland would have garnered respect and may have been warned.

The new hockey world without respect only rules and contracts. Hurt other teams wherever possible.

 

[LTIR]

Well deserved... way to sit on your hands leaving these guys waiting.

 

[rboomercat90]

Short of Jeff Jackson putting a gun to the head of these players and forcing them to sign smaller contracts that you would prefer, I’m not really sure what he was supposed to do here.

Yeah, start with that.

 

[foshizzle]

Clearly he can't, because the players can just hold out if they don't like the offer being made which is what happened here.

You think the players held out with 89 games played????