The Loss of Broberg and Holloway Gripe Thread

[McDNicks17]

And Holloway was the best player that game. While Broberg took care of his business in his end. The rest of the blues got trashed.

*grumble grumble*

Meanwhile they had a 20.5% and 24% xGF and gave up the second and third most chances against on the team.

When an Oiler has that type of game, they're pretty close to getting death threats.

 

[Pass the Saitl Sauce]

I’ve always been on team sign them before we spend on UFA. I’ve always said since we drafted Mcdavid and Draisaitl our Stanley cup chances hinge on how the rest of our prospects drafted afterwards pan out, and now on this team where we have 27 year old Mcdavid and 29 year old Draisaitl we only have what? Skinner and Bouchard?

Our roster has a lot more room for regression than it does progression with how it is constructed

 

[Mr Positive]

I’ve always been on team sign them before we spend on UFA. I’ve always said since we drafted Mcdavid and Draisaitl our Stanley cup chances hinge on how the rest of our prospects drafted afterwards pan out, and now on this team where we have 27 year old Mcdavid and 29 year old Draisaitl we only have what? Skinner and Bouchard?

Our roster has a lot more room for regression than it does progression with how it is constructed

Exactly. We can go for the cup, but I'm worried about 2-5 years from now. Ekholm will age out before McDavid and Drai will. Jackson says he wants to prioritize youth but I'm not seeing it. We are putting a lot of hope on O'Reilly, Savoie, and some long shots. It's nice to sign some older vets like Arvidsson for a good cost, but you need a core that we put those guys around. It's very hard to get that with signing and trades

 

[Jumptheshark]

The one thing that annoys me more and more I think about it was how little money we had once we Signed Skinner, Henrique and Arvidsson. That is 10 mill right there.

WE should have signed both Halloway and Broberg or figured out IF they were going sign with us. We could not match the offer sheets. Broberg wanted out but I believe if we had some money we could have kept Halloway but we waited too long. Yes, this is where posters say we would have had to trade player X--well what team do we send him to and what sugar would we have added?

I believe if we had shopped Broberg at the draft table we could have gotten more for him and than we got for him