Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Does Bowman Make His Mark on the Team Before Training Camp?
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McDrai
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If you look at it this way, Podkolzin was a top pick as well and only a year older than Holloway. That could end up being a wash. As for Broberg, the cap space we freed up could very well end up being his replacement down the line (using the 2nd and 3rd round picks at the deadline perhaps). Emberson might also surprise as he seemed to tread water on a terrible Sharks team.
Jimmi McJenkins
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So Spec does what Spec does, so they'll both be let go lol.
Stauffer mentioned last week that, if we lose, Broberg, Oilers might set their eyes on Rasmus Andersson.
Is this true?
Is this true?
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I don't see why on earth we'd acquire Podkolzin if we were planning to match on Holloway. Surely it's obvious.
Yes, he did say that.
But we know how likely the Oilers and Flames are to making a trade. I thought we offered more than Dallas did for Tanev at the deadline?
Also Friedman said that Calgary didn't like all the noise last offseason with Lindholm, Hanafin, Markstrom and Backlund and specifically wanted to keep things quiet this one.
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Unless we are running Holloway down the middle which is entirely possible.
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Forget that, how do I lobotomize someone's brain on HF?
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He'd be the highest paid 4C in the NHL in a year where we are in the red on the salary cap. I don't see it.
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It feels ugly with or without Broberg to me.
We still have Nurse and we don’t really have a legit RD to carry him.
It’s probably a negative view but I don’t really know where Broberg fits. He apparently wants to play on the left side.
Makes sense. We already traded with Vancouver and SJ this week.
It's true that he mentioned him. But it's doubtful the Oilers pay the outrageous ask for two playoff runs of a player we can't afford to extend.
Honestly from how Seravalli is talking on Oilers Now, it sounds like he has no idea what we will do lol
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Sounds about right. Finally someone in media being honest.
Have to give JJ some credit. He runs a tight ship.
Skinner gone, Kane prob gone after this season is more than enough for the two main extensions. The dead cap from Neal the brown dead cap etc is like 4M I believe. So who knows we could hypothetically do it depends on how much the cap goes up before mcdavid for that one I think.
Frank Seravalli, on Oilers Now, says the Oilers have kept a very tight lid on the offersheet situation so not very many people know what the decision will be.
Jimmi McJenkins
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Makes a ton of sense as he's a perfect fit for the roster.
Frank Seravalli believes letting Broberg go is a mistake. He thinks the right thing is signing him and letting Holloway go.
I want both to stay but this is logical. We have depth on forward with the new additions we've made. Even with Emberson, our depth on defence is not good
I want both to stay but this is logical. We have depth on forward with the new additions we've made. Even with Emberson, our depth on defence is not good
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You need to replace those players in some manner. I understand the allure of a player of that caliber, but you're talking about a $7m+ AAV extension. Those are unmanageable numbers when you're looking at $40m for just the big three.
Any other big adds would have to start with a Nurse trade. And that just isn't happening.
It makes sense except for the fact that we know that Conroy won't deal with us. They took a worse offer for Tanev in order to not have to ship him here.
They'd do the same for Andersson.
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Unless Kane is out for the season, you'll also need to trade Kulak to fit in Broberg. More or less robbing Pete to pay Paul on a defence that isn't good enough, no? You also run out of cap space to buy upgrades elsewhere.
If they move on from Broberg they'll have ~2mil at the deadline to play with. 2mil and second round pick ( plus a conditional 3rd and 4th) was enough to get Tanev at 50% this past deadline.
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I think it’s because other GM’s see the upside.
Real question is whether Jackson, Coffey or Knoblauch do.
Coffey definitely does. Didn't he want us to call up Broberg?
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At age 20 Skinner was rocking a sub 900 and was seeing time in the echl. Askarov is gonna be the second coming of vokoun.
The more I think about it, it feels like it either makes sense to match both or to match neither. Matching Broberg requires Kane to be put on LTIR no matter what. At that point you have enough space to match Holloway so why wouldn't you?
If they don't think Kane can be on LTIR the whole season, than they can't afford to match Broberg either way. They need to clear more salary.
If they let them both go the team can be cap compliant with a bit of space left over to accrue for the deadline without Kane on LTIR.
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Me and Paul are getting gelato at 7, I’ll ask him.
Okay cap compliant. But then what? Who is our 4th Dman? Trading for a top 4 right handed dman is not easy. I don't remember any top 4 dman that we traded for except for Larsson
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