Both Jackson and Bowman come across as narcissistic pricks.
% these guys went into the week planning comprising of ways to look smarter than all the media and fans. If Holloway gets close to 70 points or 30 goals, these guys should be fired on the spot. Absolute highway robbery by the Blues. Everyone saw this coming except these 2 idiots. What makes matters worse is they trotted out Blake Dermott, Troy Stecher, Noah Philp and Drake Cagiulla as possible upgrades. Eat dxxx.
We could have kept him for less than that. We tried forcing him to take the bare minimum as if he did nothing for us. Same with Broberg. Neither of these guys really wanted outHow the Oilers management keep fxxx up time after time in the most obvious of choices during McDrais prime years and get away with it is mind boggling. It's decisions like this that have led to out 2 superstars having to carry so much of the load all the time.
Everyone knew Holloway arrived and was going to be that second wave of young guys pushing, and these cartoon characters just let him go for 2 mill.
They definitely didn't do that.
Bull. Broberg requested a trade and never rescinded that request.
None of us know what really happened. Even a trade demand is conditional. For me to take that seriously I'd have to see a trade demand again after the playoffs. All the reasons he demanded a trade for weren't there anymore. It was a totally new situation. I've seen players demand trades before, and having it end with a contract. It's not like a public rescinding of a trade request is required
Oh be for real. It was out there. If he wanted to stay he would have told his agent to communicate that.
You're saying none of us know what really happened (and that is true) but earlier, you said neither of the guys really wanted out. We don't really know that either, do we? (Broberg did request a trade months earlier, but again, no one really knows if he still felt that way after the playoffs)
Why would an agent do that? Rescinding a trade request would come after the contract, not before.
That's fair enough, but we are a contender who went deep in the playoffs, and they were important parts of that. Opportunity was what Broberg was upset about, and he was given that. So sure, there's some logic there instead of real evidence.
Holloway approached them, not Broberg.
Playing with mcdavid or draisaitl type of players requires above average to high IQ.
If Winnipeg wanted to pay more for Henrique then let them. He's not really worth what we're paying him right now.
Henrique is one of the biggest mistakes in recent Oilers history, from the trade price tag, to the contract, to the fact that he costed us McLeod/Holloway. Should've just let Winnipeg take him. Heck, should've never touched this bum in the first place. Not a coincidence that he and Jeff Skinner were the only players who sucked in our most dominant game of the season yesterday. Brown absolutely did not come here at a huge discount, he was a player who didn't play a game for nearly 2 years and milked us for 4 million, that 3 million dollar bonus being another major reason we couldn't keep our young players.
Why would Drai sign the rest of his career away at an affordable $14million...taken less for the Oilers to overpay Broberg at $4+ million and hasn't proven himself at all?
He still signed despite Nurses overpay. I understand he’s playing well now but I don’t think players care about that as much as we think they do.
Wrong. Nurse signed that years ago. I can guarantee you that had something to do with it. They wanted to keep the team together as much as they can and add to it and many took less to stay or come here and Drai did not ask for what he could have got all to keep the team together and to then go and give Broberg much over his market value after that would not have sat well with any of them.
He signed despite the team overpaying absolutely dreadful players like Adam Henrique and Jeff Skinner just this most recent offseason. Not to mention whatever the f*** the Campbell contract was. And as well as Nurse has played this year, he's still at least 2 million overpaid. As for Broberg, he is for sure playing above a 4 million dollar price tag this season lol.
Nurse is playing closer to his 9.25 contract than Broberg is to his 4.6
Broberg is playing insanely well this season. Did you judge his entire season based on his bad game against us or something? And before you bring up Broberg's analytics, he actually leads most of their top 4 dmen by a lot in most categories (for instance if you look at xGF%, Broberg is at 47.33% but Suter, Faulk, and Parayko are at 44.86%, 44.52%, and 43.45% also the only defenseman on the entire team with >50% HDCF), the Blues just suck big time as a team with Holloway and Broberg being some of their only good players.
So his stats are like being the best in the special Olympics.
