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Confirmed with Link: Oilers Do Not Match Broberg ($4.58M X2) & Holloway ($2.29M x 2) Offer Sheets | Oilers acquire STL 3rd '28 & Paul Fischer for Futures
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Genuinely curious as to whether Edmonton fans think this is just hockey business or whether there's a bit of an ulterior motive with Bowman coming in that the constantly preached "respect" element is gone from other front offices. First time since 2008 2 or more offer sheets have been handed out and they're both on the same team
Blues Tender Offer Sheets To Edmonton RFAs - Dynes Pressbox
The St. Louis Blues have tendered offer sheets to a pair of Edmonton's restricted free agents, opening a 7 day window for the Oilers...dynespressbox.com
I think it has more to do with a fantastic opportunity came up and a gm took advantage of it.
But I also don’t think it’s unreasonable for other teams to not want to be doing any favours for us or Bowman lol.
Jimmi McJenkins
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All they have to do, ALL Stan and the Oilers have to do is flip Ceci for futures.
Hell even Ceci and 3rd for futures.
And you have to the space, and yet here we are.
Hell even Ceci and 3rd for futures.
And you have to the space, and yet here we are.
oXo Cube
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The AAV ask for Holloway seems reasonable but players in his position almost never get 1 year deals as it's disadvantageous for the clubs. Not surprised the Oilers didn't get excited about that.
Might take some heat in here for this view but Broberg wasn't signed at 1.8AAV because that ask was too high.
Might take some heat in here for this view but Broberg wasn't signed at 1.8AAV because that ask was too high.
Jimmi McJenkins
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Nah, if you KEEP UP, it's him positing what Friedman was referring too, but nice work.
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Jimmi McJenkins
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The Oilers are in the dither phase of the offseason and they didn't treat either of those players as important. So here we are.
Pass the Saitl Sauce
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Since the offersheets were announced I’ve been laying a lot of my blame at Jeff Jackson and the lack of a GM this summer. From a Holland that didn’t care past Stanley cup game 7 and Jackson who only cared about the UFAs and the slow search for a GM put the oilers behind the ball this offseason.
Owell I’m already accepting having to fill holes with a 2nd and 3rd round picks, only cost 2 first round picks and 5 years of development
Jimmi McJenkins
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Sorry you guys aren't keeping up. See below
Anytime you guys want to stop apologizing for Stan it would really make things alot simpler.
FlameChampion
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I’m all for piling on Bowman but hes been here for a week. Pretty sure this was already in motion before he got here.
Hasn’t there been rumours that Armstrong has been talking to Holloway/Brobergs agents since June? Something doesn’t really add up here. If Holloway was willing to take 1.2m, I think he would of been done.
Could just be Friedman putting the gears to the Oilers. He doesn’t care for the Oilers, which is typical of the media in general.
Why trade Ceci now when you can LTIR Kane at the start of the season? The boys were chasing money plain and simple.
Jimmi McJenkins
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He's been here for weeks and he has one job. He's clearly been "around" things so get to f***ing work already.
He doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt for this, get to f***ing work.
Makes it even stranger, as I think that would at best slot him in as our 4LW fighting for Ice with Joseph, Toropchenko and Bolduc.
St. Louis only offersheet Holloway to make things harder for Oilers. They're really only after Broberg.
oXo Cube
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To reiterate, he wanted 1.2 on a 1 year deal walking him straight to arbitration rights. This pretty much never happens for players coming off their ELC and especially not for players who haven't shown a lot.
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Besides maybe the one to trade is Kulak. Make sure Broberg plays his proper side and in the top 4.
So maybe make sure he is on his proper side?
Yeah, just when we need to sign McDavid and Bouchard an extension too. Not exactly team friendly when we are trying to win now.
FlameChampion
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Like others have said I think Holloway is a bit of a smoke screen and Broberg is your real target.
That being said, I have no idea what the Oilers will do here. Guess just really depends what they think the potential for both guys are. Theres not much of a sample size to feel confident one way or the other.
Kulak is our 3rd pairing LHD. Why would we do that? We have Ek, Nurse, then Kulak. Broby would have to play in Ceci's spot (on his off side) to justify the paycheck, and he sucked at it in the short sample we saw.
Let him go. He overpriced himself, and we don't have a fit for him for what he signed for.
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If Broberg's ask was 1.8 and I thought it was too high, I'd have a tough time anticipating another team offersheeting him at more than twice his ask.
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ChaoticOrange
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It's how she always goes.
Endless apologies for Chiarelli until he was out the door and then it's "can't do anything about it, move on"
Endless apologies for Holland until he wasn't in charge anymore then it's "can't do anything about it, move on"
Now it's "ah gosh geez this ain't Stan's fault!"
Some people just don't feel right unless their tongue has a callus and their mouth tastes of boot leather.
The fact is ALL of JJ, Bowman, and Holland f***ed up royally here and absolutely bungled this situation, and now their choices are pay two guys double what they're worth and scramble for the right to do so or take a pittance for them and scramble to add some speed and youth into what's now looking like a very old, very slow lineup.
