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Goose wrote on Wed, 30 January 2019 10:01 |
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When it comes to Sekera, he needs to stay away. Let's pretend he is 100% healthy, I do not see how he could be even 80%. He's missed ALL of camp, ALL of preseason, ALL of the regular season. Practicing and doing a conditioning stint for 2 weeks doesn't catch you up to everyone. You can't. Maybe, if he was as good as a Karlsson then MAYBE he could get to that 80% you mention just because when he is at his best, he's just SO much better than most dmen. If Sekera was 100% healthy and didn't miss anytime, at 32, he might be a good 3-4 dman. But given he missed all of the offseason, all of camp, all of preseason and then almost half of last year plus he again missed more than a month of his offseason, all of camp, all of preseason, and so far ALL of this season, you'd be lucky if he was capable of being a #6 dman. No player can miss that much hockey in 2 years at this level and come back to be effective, especially when he will be 33. I feel bad for the guy, he was a good player and a good guy but he's done.
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I'm pretty sure they were referring to Chia losing his job, not Sekera.
As for Sekera needing to stay away, why? He doesn't owe the Oilers anything. I dont understand why we treat athletes and sports teams like some sort of special class. Sekera is an employee and the Oilers are his employer. If he feels like he's ready to play, the doctors have cleared him and the Oilers are keeping him from playing because they messed up the cap situation, then that's on the Oilers not Sekera. It's not his responsibility to bail out the Oilers. You wouldn't accept this from your employer, I'm not sure why you expect a hockey player to do the same.
As for Sekera being done, again, that's not your decision to make and it's not the Oilers' decision, Sekera gets to decide when he's done. He has a guaranteed contract and a no movement clause that were negotiated in good faith. The Oilers don't have to play him, they can sit him in the press box if they want. But it sure looks like they're making decisions on whether to activate Sekera or not based on the cap and not on readiness. And that's a pretty bad look for the Oilers imo.
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So as an employer, if Sekera was a welder and he got injured, got everything repaired, the doc said he is healthy but he's no where near the same quality of welder meaning he can't do the job anywhere close to what he used to, the employer is on the hook to keep him around just because?
I am sure that at some point given enough time, Sekera will come back, be 100% healthy in that he has no limitations and will be capable of playing pro hockey. That might mean that given the severity of the 2 injuries back to back, his age and the amount of time that has passed since he played. He's barely played, practiced or trained in 2 years. He might only be able to be capable of being a good AHL dmen. But that doesn't matter, the Oilers are stuck with this guy and should be forced to play a guy that can't be an NHLer anymore thanks to injury. How does that make sense?
I am not trying to stick up for the Oilers management. They lost my faith a while ago. They did this to themselves. But when it comes to Sekera, they didn't do any of this. They didn't cause his knee injury, nor did they cause the achilies. Why should they be forced to play a guy who most likely won't be capable of being at the NHL level thanks to injury?
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