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You might be confusing me with someone else. I never questioned him not playing before playoffs. I questioned his injury and his effectiveness when he eventually starts at some point during playoffs. We've seen how debilitating a high ankle sprain is.
We've seen people play through high ankle sprains that weren't given time to heal and rehab properly. We haven't seen someone go through the actual appropriate healing timeline and rehab that Frederic is.
Which is a good thing. Rantanen is now reaching the backside of his prime, has been very underwhelming away from MacKinnon albeit a small sample size and will paid as a franchise player through his late 30s. This was a bullet dodged by Oilers management tbh.
If Frederic plays well in the playoffs, he has to be signed. 2nd x 3rd just for the player to walk is bad asset management.
There are a lot of teams who give up far more than that for a pure rental every single trade deadline. Are you guys living under a rock?
there are a lot of posters complaining about what we gave up for a rental player who would be complaining about us not getting a rental if we did nothing.
I dont think many GMs would target an injured player (weeks away) and give up this much. Hopefully it turns out but Bowman has done enough questionable moves to be fireable if the playoffs dont go right.
That's true, we could've given up 2 2nds for Anthnasiou again.
It does seem like the Oilers are into shit sandwich false leading messaging. hey we got this guy and we gave up these assets and he'll be playing in a week or two. Wait no he won't, still two weeks away, still two weeks away, still two weeks away... Like I said a few weeks ago its a moving target. Like a Carrot on a string...
You can have grit on multiple lines. Look at Florida they have 3 guys who can play anywhere in their lineup and cause issues for any team. You can't completely rely on Kane to bring all the grit when he hasn't played all year.
The information that the injury might be serious was out there. The first tweet we saw that day from Chris Johnston (I think) said he likely was out for the remainder of the regular season. There was a contradictory one that came out a bit later that day that was saying he’d only be out two weeks and that was the one people stuck to. Starting to look like the first one was right.At least last night we found out Frederic is even alive or in Edmonton. Unless AI.
Strange that theres so little news of when he's ready other than it being a continuing two week moving target. In short the synopsis was already way wrong and the amount of time till he was healthy is much longer than what was originally mentioned.
Given how little Frederic is going to play here this season seems like we gave up a lot to get him. If he ends up being helpful in playoffs I guess is the whole gambit.
