Worst case, they can actually buy Broberg out on July 1st 2025 for 1.52 million. Split over 2 years, that's 760k a year in dead cap. It's not a huge risk as long as they can fit the contract this year.
Confirmed Trade: [SJS/EDM] D Cody Ceci, '25 3rd round pick for D Ty Emberson
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Worst case, they can actually buy Broberg out on July 1st 2025 for 1.52 million. Split over 2 years, that's 760k a year in dead cap. It's not a huge risk as long as they can fit the contract this year.
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thought you had to keep Broberg on the roster for an entire year after an offer sheet? So until August
I'm sure that the deployment/usage of him (expectation) will be the biggest factor. Now that Ekholm-Bouchard is the #1 pair; Nurse/Broberg could be a good 2nd pair that sees more favorable deployment. Kulak/Emberson could be the defensive zone pair.
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Edmonton fans cheering because they paid a 3rd to move Ceci so that they could keep Broberg for 2 years at $4.5mil.
Zoinks.
Zoinks.
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This would make the most sense, and what I expect we will see as the first option in training camp.
It's not what we wanted 2 weeks ago, but it's probably a better scenario than we expected 6 days ago. The only concern for me is Broberg earning that 4.5M.
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Lmao the main board is so fickle and always will be
Either decision, the Oilers would be mocked, y’all just trying to gaslight everyone hahah
I get it; just saying that the new environment creates options for Edmonton and gives them some leverage. If St. Louis really wants either/both they might have to up the acquisition cost. If they don't, that's fine too they drove Edmonton to make some moves and put pressure on their cap for the next two years which is a "small victory" but the Blues didn't benefit directly from it if that was their intent of acquiring the players.
You do realize one player is declining and one is still developing. Think about that for an iota before posting such drivel.
To me it goes counter to the majority of Oiler fans who said they would walk away!!!
Emberson seems useful and several Oilers fans wanted Ceci gone so the reaction isn’t surprising.
Just cuz he signed an offer sheet doesn't mean he doesn't want to be there. Means he wants to get paid. RFA's have very few tools to extract a payday at their disposal.
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To be fair, I thought the best path was to keep Holloway and let Broberg walk. TBD on that I gues but I'm more going on what everyone here was posting.
I did consider that. I'm also considering how the team also decided to, willingly, give Nurse a $9mil contract while providing 3rd pairing quality performance. For a team that is as cap-strapped as they are, making moves to keep Broberg at $4.5mil is questionable, at best. But keep playing victim. Whoa as you.
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Considering Ceci has been likely the #2 most hated defender on this board for the last 3 years, second to only Nurse, a lot of people seem to be awfully concerned about his necessity to the team now that the Oilers got rid of him. This changing narrative thing goes both ways, this thread is filled with it.
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You match Holloway, take the compensation for Broberg, and use that as trade capital at the TDL.
Oilers have some dead cap coming off the books at the end of the year. So not terrible but defiantly tight
Different teams would do different things but this is a guy you have drafted, seen through the AHL and now you let him go when he's ready to play big minutes. Not me.. I'm retaining him.
You have to have a guy ready for Ekholm's retirement and he also makes your team better right now.
Plenty of vets near the minimum that will take a shot at a cup. They can make this work. Barrie and Stetcher are not the answer as some are suggesting.
Your random disdain for a GM in another conference for making a meh trade in the middle of summer is, at the very least, disturbing.
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Jeff Petry was drafted middle second round by the Oilers. Ty was drafted by Arizona, traded to NY in essentially the same kind of cap dump deal, then thrown on waivers.
Not quite the same.
People trying to spin this into a negative for Edmonton? 
Same usual suspects, of course.
Same usual suspects, of course.
As always, nobody wins.
St Louis doesn't get the guy they ultimately wanted more, and have now overpaid holloway, pissed off a GM, and lost leverage in future negotiations.
Edmonton has a worse cap situation now.
Both teams would have been better off working out a trade
St Louis doesn't get the guy they ultimately wanted more, and have now overpaid holloway, pissed off a GM, and lost leverage in future negotiations.
Edmonton has a worse cap situation now.
Both teams would have been better off working out a trade
