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maybe, but it unblocked because of the deleting of the database. All the thread and posters i've block since last march are unblocked now, well, until i reblocked them. Its not the mods in this case.
My dear brother in Christ, what in the world are you talking about???
Brett Kulak is highkey one of the worst moves in Oilers history. It was bad on day 1 when we acquired a player who got healthy scratched halfway through the Habs Finals run, citing "hometown kid who was a key part of Montreal's Cup run" lol. Then it got even worse when the Habs picked up a likely future star in Lane Hutson with the pick we donated to them. Then we re-signed a guy who needs to be sheltered as a NHL veteran to a 2.75 million dollar AAV deal preventing us from actually getting some value contracts or upgrading a key position instead of a luxury #5 dman. Then we refused to move on from him and jammed up Broberg's lineup spot and prevented the development/opportunities of a vastly superior player. Kept giving him coddled minutes in the playoffs where fans who can't tell the difference between playing against Adrian Kempe vs playing against Carl Grundstrom dubbed him "a playoff stud". And to top it all off, this loser single handedly loses us Game 7, including some of the worst defensive coverage and gap control in NHL history on the Stanley Cup losing goal against, and somehow got out of it scot free. Zero criticism. Zero blame. Zero media attention. Zero accountability. When you know if that had been an overhated player like Darnell Nurse, Evan Bouchard, Philip Broberg, or heck even Cody Ceci in that same spot, we would be talking about that disastrous goal against for years. But because he's the hometown boy and the "respectable veteran", we can't criticize him.
Block posts without indentation and the kitty gets it.
Haha I was too busy typing in a fit of rage to worry about syntax.
heh. I'm amazed this tool ever got to the NHL or is even staying around. He's a fantastic disaster. I think early indications were he was a bowling ball knocking over players but really materialized into nothing. Kings a few yrs ago had about half a dozen players like this that were just nothing. Even with the shiny helmets on.
What makes our upper management types make the absolute worst decisions possible at categorically critical times? In general people make more good than bad decisions every single day. What exactly do you suppose happened with all of the Oiler's management groups? What answers could there possibly be?
Not true. Broberg is a better defenceman than Walman. Broberg is 23. Walman is 29.
Walman is a better dman than Broberg at the moment. I would take him over Broberg for the playoffs today guaranteed. But saying that.. Broberg is much younger... so in the future Broberg might turn out better.
I see rare qualities in Broberg's game. I'm not saying he's going to be a star. Never once did I qualify him as that.
Broberg would be playing 3rd playing behind Walman if he was still an Oiler. Broberg is all about potential. He might become the next Walman one day
I identify defencemen you win with, they usually aren't described as "star players". I look for players with unique underrated skill sets that I see repeated over time.
Couldn’t have said it better. You don’t let a player like Kulak block a young, upcoming potential star defenseman. STL now has their next top pairing guy for the next 10 years because management was worried about their overpaid bottom pairing Dman and the “you can only play veterans” to win a Cup. It’s not like Colorado just recently won one with Makar and Byram on D.
The Kulak pushing is remarkable and It's still going on. Why? Deniability.
Probably deniability, remember he's a local guy like shit Skinner, so they must be absolved from any criticism
At least Skinner is finally getting (rightfully) shit on for his awful season. I still see more people blaming Bouchard/Skinner for the Game 7 loss than the player who single handedly lost that game.
And to be fair to the Oilers, we're not the only team with the veterans blinders on. Team Canada picked the likes of Alex Pietrangelo, Drew Doughty, Colton Parayko, and Travis Sanheim over legit studs like Evan Bouchard, Thomas Harley, and Noah Dobson. And sure enough when Team Canada got lucky with the Pietrangelo injury and a bit more unlucky with the Theodore injury, they got to bring in Harley as the emergency replacement and he was the 2nd best dman on the team while carrying the dead weight that is Drew Doughty, compared to the likes of Sanheim and Parayko who got hemmed in every shift.
Broberg's stats have him at a first pairing rates for both offense and defense.
