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

[CycloneSweep]

Only if he succeeds. If he sucks/becomes a completely forgettable player it will be memory-holed.

If he sucks than he will be used as a thing to shit on us for our terrible drafting.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Of course you can create any narrative to support whatever you want to believe. The facts say you’re wrong.

You continually add in irrelevant talking points to try to win discussions. It’s entertaining

Yes Nurse is grossly overpaid. He needs a partner that is able to cover up his weaknesses much better than Ceci could. Ceci might have been the worst possible partner imaginable for Nurse.

Well if the players we brought in can't do that we're in a world of trouble because Nurse isn't going anywhere.

 

[Davo Ikinzom]

Doubtful.
Broberg we are going to be hearing about one way or another for a long time now.

Nothing new from those losers. I remember all 5 of their fans coming to tell us how great Yakupov was under their superior coaching.

 

[Louis Cypher]

What's with the trade from STL all about? Is that just a reach around tug for the ass pounding they just gave us?

 

[Lay Z Boy GM]

Wise decision by the management team. This isn’t just Bowman, these moves have Knoblauch and Parkattis fingerprints all over.

Get that RD we’ve needed for 5+ seasons please.

Everything else is fine for now.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Well if the players we brought in can't do that we're in a world of trouble because Nurse isn't going anywhere.

Playoffs don't start today.

 

[McBigYak]

Good thing we can now accrue cap space when Kane goes on LTIR. Come deadline, we'll have some flexibility and cap space.

Yeah. THIS is what shouldn't really be all that hard to grasp. You do not need to upgrade him immediately.

 

[TB12]

If the Oilers don’t match we are a worse team with a trash defence. No way we challenge for a cup with that many bottom pairing dmen.

hahahahahaha

overreaction much.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

How do you know that? Based on their performance last season that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Ceci, despite sucking, is better than Stetcher, Brown and Emberson
Desharnais too

 

[Oilslick941611]

Agree! thank you
Broberg was a non factor in the season and all of a sudden he has a good run of 10 games in the playoffs and he's worth 4.6MM?

He might very well be a great player in the league, but I’m willing to bet it wont happen in the next two years.

 

[Heavy Dee]

The 1.4 million to Perry is such a waste. Wish they would have matched for Holloway.

Perry wasn't worth more than the league min. Dumb

 

[oXo Cube]

yes...Stetcher was #8 on the depth chart, now vying for a top 4 spot

This is just factually incorrect.

Stetcher was well ahead of Broberg on the depth chart. He was unable to play.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Ceci, despite sucking, is better than Stetcher, Brown and Emberson
Desharnais too

Ceci doesn’t suck. People are mad he’s not a top pairing guy


But he isn’t paid to be one

 

[Seachd]

I can guarantee you that the Oilers could've hammered out a deal more reasonable than the one he took. But alas, cap crunch caused by unwise spending by the previous GM and the current GM(s) just assumed that nothing would happen to Holloway or Broberg. Nurse better have a monster year, that's all I'll say about him.

More reasonable than $4.5 million? Of course they could have, because he signed a completely unreasonable deal.

Obviously “more reasonable” isn’t what they were looking for.

And we have no evidence whatsoever they just “assumed nothing would happen to Holloway or Broberg”. NHL GMs aren’t exactly unfamiliar with RFAs.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Which detail 2 separate things.

Yeah and there's literally nothing in it about a second rounder thanks for coming out.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Good thing we can now accrue cap space when Kane goes on LTIR. Come deadline, we'll have some flexibility and cap space.

so now we are back to square one...hoping and praying this thin D corps can hold together for a saviour at the deadline

unreal

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

I'm not convinced that Broberg was going to take a discount to stay here, he wanted out. Holland/Jackson probably could have signed Holloway earlier, why didn't they?

Broberg camp's offer was 1 yr at $1.8M, so yeah he would have.

You guys don't have to apologize or make excuses for the team, sometimes idiotic failure is just infact that.

 

[Old Boys Club]

If he sucks than he will be used as a thing to shit on us for our terrible drafting.

Nine tenths of the people circlejerking on the mainboards the last week were all calling Broberg a bust for the last 5 years, until he signed that disgusting poison-pill contract. 5 months ago, Broberg had near zero value (at least speculated by insiders).

 

[ManofSteel55]

yes...Stetcher was #8 on the depth chart, now vying for a top 4 spot

As a stop gap until we fill the #4 spot. I'm going to be optimistic and hope that before the playoffs, we have a better defenseman than Cody Ceci in that spot. If we can long term upgrade on the 2RD position, taking the side-step from VD to Emberson or Stecher is fine.

 

[K1984]

"Fix it at the deadline" is not a solution. That is not a championship level defense.

It actually is though, because often more players are available at cheaper prices.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

This is just factually incorrect.

Stetcher was well ahead of Broberg on the depth chart. He was unable to play.

do you think if he's healthy, he plays ahead of Broberg in the playoffs?

 

[CycloneSweep]

Yeah and there's literally nothing in it about a second rounder thanks for coming out.

Okay? And I am telling you what we actually got for this whole ordeal.
St Louis gets Holloway and Broberg
We get a 2nd, 3rd, 3rd Paul Fischer

 

[nabob]

Well if the players we brought in can't do that we're in a world of trouble because Nurse isn't going anywhere.

Pivot and fire.

Losing Ceci isn’t the difference between a world of trouble and a championship level defense. You keep on harping on that, but it’s complete nonsense.

 

[oXo Cube]

do you think if he's healthy, he plays ahead of Broberg in the playoffs?

Of course I think that.

Surely that's not an unpopular opinion?

 

[CycloneSweep]

do you think if he's healthy, he plays ahead of Broberg in the playoffs?

If he was healthy Broberg probably wouldn't have played. Broberg played cause Desharnais was struggling and he was the next man up.