Confirmed Signing with Link: Oilers decline to match offer sheets for Broberg and Holloway

[sting101]

It's not a bad outcome for the Oilers given the inability to get Holloway and Broberg signed when it was gonna be cheap?

Broberg Holloway Ceci 4th
gone and replaced with
Emberson Podkolzin 2nd 3rd and 8.1 million in cap space

Have to say though it's been a fascinating and potentially horrifying off season given the lack of quality youth that remains on the roster

until we eventually see what the Oilers get to help their defense it's a substantial downgrade from Holloway Broberg to Podkolzin Emberson and even though they retained and obtained better quality scoring.... older legs and less speed in Henrique Skinner Arvidsson vs Foegele McLoed Holloway and losing Ceci Broberg and Desharnais without a quality addition on defense looks like more heavy lifting for the top guys.

2 forwards in their 20s McDavid and Draisaitl 3 if you count a guy who was 14th on the Canucks depth chart to end last year...yikes

 

[VeteranPresence]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825955967198003584

This is fine

Can you illustrate how it isn't fine? You did watch the playoffs right?

 

[le_sean]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1825955967198003584

This is fine

I mean it is considering they are all-in this year.

 

[DFAC]

Weird they let Holloway walk for that price. Broberg, I get walking away from.

 

[Rubi]

Honestly only bouchard, drai and mcdavids age matter. So long as they are under 35 edm will be cup contenders, which no doubt sucks for other pacific team fans like yourself

This isn't basketball where 3 players can be on the court all the time and win you a championship. How many championships have Bouchard, Draisitl, and McDavid won so far?

 

[blankall]

Given the situation it was the better of the two options. Paying 2 players who have yet to show a full season of 3rd line or 3rd pairing quality play 7mil combined sounds like an awful move for a team trying to win the cup this year.

The Oilers would have been able to negotiate a deal that was less than the offer sheet. Offer sheets are almost always overpayments. Once the offer sheets were put down, it was clearly a rock and a hard place. Prior to that the Oilers messed up their cap and negotiations to put themselves into that spot.

 

[Seachd]

Fixed it

Seems like the Oilers are okay with it? Why would they hate it? They weren’t signing Broberg to that contract no matter what.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

The Oilers would have been able to negotiate a deal that was less than the offer sheet. Offer sheets are almost always overpayments. Once the offer sheets were put down, it was clearly a rock and a hard place. Prior to that the Oilers messed up their cap and negotiations to put themselves into that spot.

Or really should have traded Holloway at the draft. Kudos to the Blues though, as much as i hate them, they are a smart team who identified another team's weakness.

I would have been pissed if Newhook was broberg's offersheet last off season.

 

[Rubi]

I don't think anyone can dispute that the Oilers defence is worse than it was 48 hours ago. Some may say a lot worse.
I think Stan Bowman has a plan. He'll leave it as is until January and try and win a lot of 7-6 games with Kane in the lineup occasionally. Come January Kane will have surgery and be on LTIR for the rest of the season. Bowman will play the LTIR game and pick up a stud 2nd pairing RD once Kane is on LTIR, using Kane's $5.125m contract space, and then Kane will miraculously recover in time for the playoffs. Bowman will be celebrated and praised in Edmonton as a genius and all that sex abuse stuff will be washed away and forgotten.

 

[Coffey]

He'll leave it as is until January and try and win a lot of 7-6 games with Kane in the lineup occasionally.

I know you're a Flames fan, but Foegele, McLeod, Broberg and Holloway didn't prevent 3-4 goals per game against lmao

 

[Robtom18]

Looking over their shoulder from who? Oilers? When they have Bouchard and Draisaitl to re sign? Lmao

Also can you name one rfa doug let get to offersheet level....nope. he resigns or bridges way before. Sooooo yeah

 

[junyab]

This isn't basketball where 3 players can be on the court all the time and win you a championship. How many championships have Bouchard, Draisitl, and McDavid won so far?

I'd say you have an argument, but they just went to the 7th game in the finals, soooo...

 

[roon]

Seems strange from STL's perspective. Neither of these guys materially improve your team....it's adding depth on a team that needs to add more than depth to contend. Why not save yourself the cap space and if your team can compete - use that cap at the deadline or something.

 

[Nakawick]

Weird they let Holloway walk for that price. Broberg, I get walking away from.

I agree, I would have signed Holloway for that.

 

[sting101]

I don't think anyone can dispute that the Oilers defence is worse than it was 48 hours ago. Some may say a lot worse.
I think Stan Bowman has a plan. He'll leave it as is until January and try and win a lot of 7-6 games with Kane in the lineup occasionally. Come January Kane will have surgery and be on LTIR for the rest of the season. Bowman will play the LTIR game and pick up a stud 2nd pairing RD once Kane is on LTIR, using Kane's $5.125m contract space, and then Kane will miraculously recover in time for the playoffs. Bowman will be celebrated and praised in Edmonton as a genius and all that sex abuse stuff will be washed away and forgotten.

Is this really how you see it?

 

[Some Other Flame]

Can you illustrate how it isn't fine? You did watch the playoffs right?

 

[thebestnic]

This isn't basketball where 3 players can be on the court all the time and win you a championship. How many championships have Bouchard, Draisitl, and McDavid won so far?

They're still gonna contend so nice strawman bud...

 

[Some Other Flame]

Biggest winners here are Holloway and Broberg. Both get pay days in excess of actual worth and are guaranteed prime opportunity to develop further.

After all the veteran UFA forward signings the Oilers made, Holloway was facing another year of toiling away on the 4th line or in the pressbox. Now he'll play somewhere up on the Blues lineup instead. And Broberg no longer has to play on his offside next to Nurse.

Some terrific work by them and their agents.

 

[Szechwan]

Honestly only bouchard, drai and mcdavids age matter. So long as they are under 35 edm will be cup contenders, which no doubt sucks for other pacific team fans like yourself

Recovery takes a big hit once you're in the 32+ range. That long run could absolutely have taken a toll on the rest of the team's ability to perform next season.

Florida is the exception, not the rule. There's a reason it's pretty rare to reach the SCF twice in a row.

 

[Habby4Life]

Horrible asset management by the oilers. Losing two first round picks for essentially nothing. Oilers window is closing.

 

[Double Dion]

This was the right call for the Oilers to make. I hate that they're doing less stupid things now. Hopefully they go add forwards at the TDL this season instead of a defenseman.

 

[ElPrimeTime]

Not sure if it was posted in this thread (too lazy to look), but with the news coming out that Broberg needed at least 80 games to be eligible for an offer sheet and the Oilers playing him in the last two meaningless games to get him to 81 is crazy to think. How Holland conned the Oilers out of $5M a season to not pay attention to details is beyond me.

 

[Stelmacki]

Not sure if it was posted in this thread (too lazy to look), but with the news coming out that Broberg needed at least 80 games to be eligible for an offer sheet and the Oilers playing him in the last two meaningless games to get him to 81 is crazy to think. How Holland conned the Oilers out of $5M a season to not pay attention to details is beyond me.

Broberg was looking like an important piece in their push for the cup. Can’t really fault Holland for not wanting to mess with that by sitting him during the final 2 games of the Stanley Cup Finals.

 

[Blanick]

This DA presser is fantastic.

"If there is some GM code not to do OS, nobody sent that to me."

"I read that I wouldn't have done this Holland, that's BS, I would have done this to my own mother if she was GM of Edmonton."

LMAO

"We are going to leave enough cap space to sign our own free agents."

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Congrats to the Blues for marginally improving your team but making every GM hate you

every GM? I think there's only one that likely isn't happy.