Ok, so you expected Broberg to be the #4 LHD then?So just to be clear...I never advocated for Kulak to be traded. I think that he is a solid bttom pairing dman. What I expected to see from Holland was for him to at least try amnd fix the RHD issue a year or 2 years ago.
He did npothing. In his mind Ceci was good enough. Ceci might have been good enough if he wasnt paired with a scatter brained dman like Darnell Nurse.
So instead of fixing the obvious issue...plan B was to try and fit Broberg into a RHD role.
That IMO was a massive mistake and not because Broberg wasnt a talented dman but because it was clear that he was struggling playing his off side.
I am acutally surprised that posters are defending this. Many posters dismissed the wrong side issue and just assumed it was just the player. Anything to protect the team I guess.
I get the need to defend everything oilers but the evidence suggests that the team didnt handle Broberg very well at all. It also suggests that Broberg was right to be disillusioned with the way he was managed.
The Puljujarvi situation is different IMO because Jesse wasnt a dman.
Dmen have to be developed differently than forwards. It takes much longer and thats especially true when it comes to wingers.
The team owed it to themselves and to the player to try and develop him on his natural side.
They failed to do that and that isnt on Broberg at all.
Regarding matching the contract...of course they coudlnt do that, The issue is that they shouldnt have painted themselves into that corner in the first place.
This entire scenario is primarily a failure of Oilers management.
How do you they develop him on this natural side when Ekholm , Nurse and Kulak are solidified in those spots.
You say that you didn't advocate for trading Kulak so who does Broberg supplant of those three?
Also, "the need to defend everything Oilers" "anything to protect the team I guess" wasn't necessary. I expect better from you than a response like that. I thought my post was reasonable enough to not elicit that reply.