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You need to tell me where your crystal ball supplier is located.

Nah, just like all the other posters writing off this management for previous regimes mistakes, they read the leaked "Oilers Handbook: Things All Management Must Do to Continue Pissing Off Fans"
 
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Askarov was never available with an Oilers pick.

He went 11 the year the Oilers took Holloway at 14.
They could have traded them Savoie. Sharks traded essentially a 2nd round prospect a late first (Vegas) and a 24 year old goalie prospect who was playing in the ECHL last year they certainly could have offered a similar package. FYI I wasnt talking about drafting him I was talking about trading for him when it came out he put in a trade request and said he wouldnt report to the AHL.
 
We still all know you're a CP poster man.
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You don't have any aspirations for the Oilers to win, that's a given I figured out a long time ago.
 
They could have traded them Savoie. Sharks traded essentially a 2nd round prospect a late first (Vegas) and a 24 year old goalie prospect who was playing in the ECHL last year they certainly could have offered a similar package. FYI I wasnt talking about drafting him I was talking about trading for him when it came out he put in a trade request and said he wouldnt report to the AHL.
I wouldn’t have done it. The forward prospect is always more of a sure thing.
 
Michael Kesselring. Why did the Oilers botch this one too? Weren't all signs pointing to him being at minimum an NHL player? We got a handful of games from Bjugstad and ine playoff goal? MK is now 24, RHD, 20+ minutes, 6-5, can skate and is signed 1.4M x 2 more seasons. We chose Vinny over this player? Vinny who has no kffensive skill and is 4 years older? If the Oilers had Broberg and Kesselring instead of Emberson and Stetcher, they might win the Cup in 20 playoff games or less.

The Oilers talent evaluation under Holland was pretty suspect...maybe even putrid. Saved by UFA signings, Ekholm trade and generational 1st round draft picks.
 
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Michael Kesselring. Why did the Oilers botch this one too? Weren't all signs pointing to him being at minimum an NHL player? We got a handful of games from Bjugstad and ine playoff goal? MK is now 24, RHD, 20+ minutes, 6-5, can skate and is signed 1.4M x 2 more seasons. We chose Vinny over this player? Vinny who has no kffensive skill and is 4 years older? If the Oilers had Broberg and Kesselring instead of Emberson and Stetcher, they might win the Cup in 20 playoff games or less.

The Oilers talent evaluation under Holland was pretty suspect...maybe even putrid. Saved by UFA signings, Ekholm trade and generational 1st round draft picks.
Kesselring looked like a player. A lot of people were surprised he was shipped out in the deal.
 
Pens go no unless we are adding more. Jarry is signed until 2028 @ 5.375 after this one and Nurse for 5 @ 9.25.

On the main board some suggested Jarry @5.375 fand Ryan Graves @4.5 until 2029 for Nurse and a 2nd.
If you read it it makes sense and works, if you just see Jarry and Nurse, then your confusion make sense.

Also the rest of you read Nurse going the other way right?
 
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That one never made sense to me. He showed well at a bunch of camps, was doing really well in the AHL and looked like he was ready for a call-up.

That's not the type of prospect you add into a deal as a throw-in. That should have been some U20 prospect in junior or a guy struggling in the AHL.
They added Kesselring, as a thrown in, on top of a 3rd round pick which should have been close enough to land a bottom 6 center rental. I will never understand that trade vocally hated it at the time, Holland loved throwing away prospects and picks.
Sadly, this regime seems to be not much better in that regard thus far although I don't completely blame them for losing Broberg and Holloway but it still stings nonetheless.
 
They added Kesselring, as a thrown in, on top of a 3rd round pick which should have been close enough to land a bottom 6 center rental. I will never understand that trade vocally hated it at the time, Holland loved throwing away prospects and picks.
Sadly, this regime seems to be not much better in that regard thus far although I don't completely blame them for losing Broberg and Holloway but it still stings nonetheless.
That was such a dumb trade. A 3rd for Bjugstad was more than enough. That piece was a seed that Holland planted in case he wants a job in Utah
 
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honestly feels like every single move this org made in the summer is backfiring.
Skinner- Good move he is working hard.
Arvidsson- Much worse than he even was last year
Emberson- Not an NHL player
Dermott- Awful
J Brown- Lol
Henrique- Fine
Savoie- Could be fine, still way too early to tell.
Foegele Out- Good
Holloway- Could use him
Broberg- I can’t even shit on him right now.

What’s funny is if you don’t sign J Brown and Arvidsson you could have kept Broberg and Holloway and have probably had a better team. And I still don’t think Broberg is all that good but he is better than Brown, Dermott and our AHL guys.


What’s funny is if we replace Arvidsson with Holloway we probably have a better lineup. Arvidsson has been next to useless.
Maybe give it more than 6 games before making sweeping statements?
 
That was such a dumb trade. A 3rd for Bjugstad was more than enough. That piece was a seed that Holland planted in case he wants a job in Utah
I see this a failure of Bakersfield to develop a 4C, with such a huge focus on AHL lifers and bottom six prospects seems a big failure.
 
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