The only risk I can see is some cap space (maybe $3M for this season) and a couple of draft picks that arent likely going to be NHL players.I like both players but wouldn’t agree that they’re “golden” or “found money”. There is a massive amount of risk involved with offersheeting support players. It could go well but of course it would be best if it blues up in their face
Doubt we lose Draisaitl. We don't want you changing your nameLegend post haha.
Whoops.
We better not be losing Draisaitl.
I made it perfectly clear. The Oilers are screwed if they matched the offer sheets... the Oilers are screwed if they don't match the offer sheets. Now we're screwed. Don't try and play me.Ah yes, the totally not-unhinged lunatics at CP celebrating means the Oilers are toast. They laughed at us all last year right up until game 7 of the SCF.
My $0.02 - the real value in players like Holloway and Broberg is in outperforming small dollar contracts. Paying them 2x or 3x that value is death in a cap world, and especially so when we are in a tight win-now window.
The only risk I can see is some cap space (maybe $3M for this season) and a couple of draft picks that arent likely going to be NHL players.
St Louis comes out looking pretty good to me.
That’s really all you have left to hang your hat on. If they don’t win the hardest trophy to win in sports then they are failures.They haven't won a Cup yet. That's been the goal since McDavid was drafted and only finally did we actually break through. I don't think it's a stretch to say anything less than a Cup win this season is a failure.
I'm very excite!Yeah, I didn't realize his English was so...undeveloped. He didn't understand some pretty basic questions, and didn't answer the questions he was asked in the least.
This truly is a scary thought......Legend post haha.
Whoops.
We better not be losing Draisaitl.
The future is looking grim
Better win a cup lol
They could be gone on a 1/3 buy-out as early as year 1. Easy, smart risk to take with Krug on LTIR and a core group of young forwards they've pivoted around. If this were the Oilers snaking this kind of deal we would all be ecstatic. Hard to get quality young talent just beginning their peak performance years with all the development time bought and paid for by another sucker.I like both players but wouldn’t agree that they’re “golden” or “found money”. There is a massive amount of risk involved with offersheeting support players. It could go well but of course it would be best if it blues up in their face
Seeing as they have the best player on the planet and another who's up there? Yeah, not winning the Cup would be a failure. The players themselves said "Cup or bust" prior to last season. How would not winning the Cup with arguably a top five player of all time be considered anything but a failure? McDavid is that good.That’s really all you have left to hang your hat on. If they don’t win the hardest trophy to win in sports then they are failures.
But even if they did we all know you’ll find some reason to discredit it. They had an easy path, X team was missing X player, they should be winning multiple cups.
Not yet it's not.
Still have to get long term contracts done for 2, 29, and 97 but once that happens(and there is no reason to believe it won't) this team will always have a future. Fans on here are going to have to get used to a revolving door of players around them though.
I'm on the fence.Not really. I understand that it would have been an overpay, but one look at our current defense makes me worried about the upcoming year.
No different than Pittsburgh with Rust and Sheary being in and out so that the Pens could afford Crosby, Malkin and Letang.Not yet it's not.
Still have to get long term contracts done for 2, 29, and 97 but once that happens(and there is no reason to believe it won't) this team will always have a future. Fans on here are going to have to get used to a revolving door of players around them though.
they are every bit as gullible and a bunch of fanboys to bootIf you really believed this, why would you just have propped them up as geniuses? You’re the one who brought it up (for reasons no one will ever know), no one else.
I am not saying that the Oilers should have matched so I agree with you there.A bubble team with their top D on LTIR can afford to overpay players. They couldn’t attract a free agent that was suitable so went this path. I don’t get the excitement about it. If it happened to another team I wouldn’t have kept too many tabs on it
Broberg wasn’t predominately played on his offside in Bakersfield. He played some games on the left and some on the right like an absolute ton of left handed D have to in the AHL.Lets assume that I am making that mistake...what sense does it make in terms pf player development to flip a developing player from side to side when he is trying to get his footing in the NHL.
Borgerg was played on the right side almost predominantly in Bakersfield because the RHD depth was weak down there too.
So lets play this out...Broberg is expected to make the next step by having him play in the developmental League (the AHL) and then flipping him back to his natural side when he is in the NHL...he predictably struggles.
So the teams solution with a struggling young dman was to put him on the wrong wing?
How is that going to help a struggling young player expidite his development?
Debatable, but he definitely outplayed Ceci for stretches last year when healthy.Sorry but Stecher was never better than Ceci
I'm super glad you're gleeful over today's events. I am not.If that’s what all your friends at CP are saying.
Love it when you mess up like a that and admit you’re actually a Flames fan and just here to troll.