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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Tue, 11 June 2019 16:06 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 11 June 2019 15:59 |
One thing I found interesting when I heard Gretzky interviewed today was when he was asked about Yamo, KG came right out and said he was rushed and should have spent the whole time in the AHL instead of getting yanked up and down. Kind or sounds like there was some disagreement on a few things between he and his former boss Chia.
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Either that or it's just so painfully obvious now that to say anything else would look ridiculous. I mean, he still doesn't weigh 160 lbs, and he's posted 1-4-5 in 26 NHL games despite playing most of that with McDavid or Draisaitl...so it's not exactly an easy move to defend in retrospect - whether he agreed at the time or not.
Don't tell me you really believe that Chiarelli was the only one in the Oilers management group who thought it a good idea to "sell hope" by spotlighting top draft picks with extended NHL auditions at 18 and 19 years of age...
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That was some serious horsecrap by McLellan. Yams looked so over his head and kept getting spoonfed prime minutes while Pulju was being punished for whatever reason.
God...can we please be entering a period of time where what Oilers management and coaching does actually seems to make some sense? Pleeeeaaaseeee???
I have personally concluded that Pulju and his agent did get Chia to agree to 40 games per season on the active roster in the NHL (450k salary per year guaranteed, plus burning UFA/RFA years), and they threatened to stay for 1-2 years in Finland back in 2016 if Chia did not comply. And Chia gave in and agreed because we were so desperate for wingers. And that would definitely have made an old school guy like McLellan instantly sour on Pulju and refuse to give him even an inch of free ice time. We know Chia is a pushover, and Pulju's agent has shown himself to be quite a dick, and just like when Yak's agent said Yak needs better ice time, McLellan permanently stuck Yak in the dog house. So, maybe how Pulju was handled actually does all make sense, it just stinks.
[Updated on: Tue, 11 June 2019 16:15]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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