Broberg wanted out. He also got quadruple his salary and its in my opinion that he won't be anything approaching worth it.
That's objectively false on the Oilers boards. He was shit on constantly for 3 years (myself included). You could stomach him in the season, which is a large reason why it doesn't matter what the Oilers roll out on their right side early this year, but he was caved in constantly every playoffs and he was one of HF Oil's favourite whipping boys, and for good reason.
how do you feel with Nurse-Kulak-Stetcher-Emberson as your bottom 4?
Long ways to go before playoffs.. it wouldn't have been any better with Nurse, Ceci, Desharnais and Broberg.
If they can upgrade on Cody Ceci and get a "shutdown" defender to pair with either Nurse/Kulak then they can come out of this better off (by gaining the draft picks). Due to the cap situation/LTIR with Kane however they might have to wait until TDL to do so. Still think a vet RHD like Barrie, Schultz, Shattenkirk, Giordano, or Bortuzzo signs for the minimum (highly likely at this point) as well.
I don't doubt that, but I'm more so talking early in the season when he was expected to make the team and then really didn't do anything to solidify even a bottom pairing role and was sent down. That's when his stock was at its lowest, and it gradually rose throughout the year during the AHL season and into the NHL playoffs.
Signing Barrie would be temporary. A stop gap until we found someone better. I'm still not sure if I do it, I'm not sold on him being any better than Troy Stecher at this time.
I' guessing they plan on adding with the extra assets they've acquired.
it's hilarious because it's exactly the opposite of what AvroArrow said haha. Its the people that have been nonstop shitting on him for two seasons that are now trying to paint him as some kind of huge loss
Sounds like he was more worried about his clients best interests, which is what an agent should do.
I think it would have been better for his client to win a Cup playing on Leon Draisaitl's left wing then get a much bigger bag later.
I've shit on Ceci for years, but at least I'll own it. And it's not even because he's terrible. He's a mediocre #5 imo who got exposed playing too many minutes. My biggest annoyance with him was how bad his puck retrieval and breakout game were. This guy would go back to retrieve a puck with nobody even at the face-off dot yet and somehow make it look like an aggressive forecheck.
Looking at RHD it pretty much starts with David Savard (MTL) for anyone in the market.
I'm not sure we can say for sure, a lot would depend on if/when teams fall out of the playoff race. Some of the guys I would like are on probable playoff teams, so they probably won't be available, but I'm sure they would be interested in cheaper guys they might be able to re-sign for the price they are currently at, or with only a small bump. I would throw out names like Dante Fabbro, Will Borgen, Henri Jokiharju, or maybe even an older chap like David Savard or Brian Doumoulin, if nobody else is available. A guy like Gavrikov, Chycrun or Provorov might be ideal, but I anticipate they would command a 1st in return, and we don't have one - plus they make too much to extend within our cap structure. Adam Larsson is the dream, but I don't anticipate he will be avaible, or that he would want to come back, given the reason he left in the first place.
