guymez
The Seldom Seen Kid
- Mar 3, 2004
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Well...essentaillly it was about the fact that because the Oilers have poor depth on the Right side their solution was to push Broberg down that development path.Sorry, I haven't been able to go through all the posts. Would you mind giving a synopsis as to why you think Broberg's development was botched?
Broberg was a top 10 pick. The team had a lot invested in him and yet they thought it best to try and have Broberg (a LHD) shore up the right side of their NHL defence.
Developing into a top 4 NHL dman is hard enough on its own but made even harder when you are forced to play and develop on your wrong side.
So for Broberg he would understandibly struggle with that assignment at the NHL level. The solution...push him back down to the AHL and continue the right side experiment down there.
As a player Broberg no doubt knew that by far his best opportunity would be to allow him to develop on his natural side and then allow that development to crystalize in the NHL.
That didnt happen here...the team kept either playing him on the right side or filp flopped him from side to side...so I dont blame him for being disallusioned with how he was handled.
The organizational weakness on the Right D played a much bigger role in Brobergs development than it should have and Broberg was paying the price for that.
I fully expect that St Louis wont try to force Broberg to play the right side at all which is why I think that he will have a better opportunity there than he ever did here.
Clearly Armstrong believes that as well.
The money certainly helps as well.
So of course Oil fans are going to shit all over Broberg for wanting a better situation but IMO the Oilers org (primarily Holland) is mostly responsible for this mess because of how they handled Broberg in the first place.
Now I am not saying that the Oilers should have matched. I am saying that the Oilers in large part created this mess by how they handled Broberg as a player.