+/- is a terrible argument. Broberg had the worst numbers of any Oiler defender this playoffs. He formed a part of the statistical 2 worst pairings for the Oilers, Nurse-Broberg, Kulak-Broberg. Oilers fault for playing him on his off side, but not sure how much better he'd have faired on LHD considering how he's looked there in the NHL throughout his career.
lol see this is how you do sarcasm kids.
You want to discredit what Edmonton has done by saying they got lucky with teams losing key players yet Toronto couldn’t even win vs the weakest Boston team in years that couldn’t score to save their lives and only had 2/3rds of a top line with porus depth.
buddy the Blues screwed themselves over on 9/27/20 when they let Petro go and signed a laughable little turd for big bucks.
I doubt any GM lets themselves get in a position like the Oilers did tbh. Two young RFA’s on cheap contracts and no cap space in mid August when they are going all in for a Cup. It’s a very unique situation not likely to be repeated very often.
Except the Blues don’t have two generational players and aren’t in cap hell?
They screwed themselves over panic extending Scandella and not planning for Bouwmeester’s replacement.
I have a feeling that’s because of Nurse and Kulak, as well as playing the wrong side.
the Blues are going to be looking over their shoulder with every RFA for the next decade.
They played a bad team once and lost. Other than that, every single first round matchup they have had has been significantly more difficult than any Oilers first round matchup. Tampa and Boston >>> the Kings.
Broberg didn't exactly sign a "cheap contract". It's a contract they Blues can survive with, but he gets double pay during his time. Possible advantage is next contract won't be a huge step up compared to what it would have been if he does well.
Emberson could be decent but I feel pretty safe saying Podz won’t be better than Holloway.
Holloway wasn't good outside of McDavid passing some goals his way in the playoffs. He's more of career 3rd liner. Still better than any version of Podz right now. But who knows who ends up better.
Kulak was fine paired with Nurse on his off-side, Kulak-VD was a + xGF% pairing, Nurse faired wel; (+ xGF%) away from Ceci and Broberg playing with Kulak/VD. The two defenders on the Oilers playoff run that stick out as making nearly every pairing they're on worse are Ceci and Broberg.
This is a fair point, but they might very well have tried and not gotten close to a deal; and felt the OS was their best chance to get them at a cheaper acquisition cost than what Edmonton had held out for. Perhaps it is Edmonton that "should have" adjusted their asking price in light of what happened.
Good. Edmonton will be doing and should have done the same.
I meant they were on cheap contracts for the Oilers and reportedly Broberg was asking for $1.8 million according to Friedman.
What tf are you carrying on about? Hayes is slow and doesn't fit their mold. The bigger mistake was bringing him in to begin with. You keep trying to look at these moves in a vacuum that doesn't exist and refuse to listen to any reason on the matter, which is either justification cause you're an Oil fan, or you despise the Blues maybe? Either way, Broberg and Holloway are both younger players that have NHL and Finals experience. Did they overpay? Sure, but another way to view that is they overpaid for younger players with experience using picks that may or may not be used on players that will have an impact down the line. Iow, those picks go young guys, they paid for their experience as well with the "overpay." Not sure where you're struggling.
How? No cap, no good assets and who's even available.
