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 Kr55
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| nullterm wrote on Mon, 29 June 2020 21:17 |
| NetBOG wrote on Mon, 29 June 2020 20:08 |
Fun fact:
Oilers team salary 2001-2002: $24.3 million
Doug Weight salary 2001-2002: $9 million
That why Weight left. Oilers cheap owners. Smyth just wasn't good enough to command a stupid contract from a rich team.
Kevin Lowe actually did a really good job keeping the team competitive without any money.
Introduction of the salary cap and change in ownership seems to have done more to sewer the team.
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MacT and Lowe were actually doing a good to great job with limited resources that they had, from 2000 to the summer of 06.
Then the wheels fell off...
... and the car exploded
... and the neighbouhood caught fire
... and the city burned.
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Big reason the team died is when the leadership core Sather left Lowe went away IMO. That is the thing Lowe was missing through the entire run of failed rebuilds. He thought the team could just be handed to kids. He watched guys like Smith, Smyth, Moreau, Marchant and others move on and there was not much left. Team was just lost and the only idea Lowe had to fix it was more kids, and maybe some free agent washed up vets that he or MacT thought could increase the teams overall "Leadership" rating, but, yeah, that doesn't work well.
The game changed a bit too during Lowe's POHO days. He admitted this a few years ago, he didn't realize how important puck moving D were. He said he kept thinking back to how every time Dallas beat him in the playoffs it was because of their top end forwards, so he wanted to get that through the draft. He forgot about veteran leaders and puck moving D that the rest of the league were busy drafting and developing (while we shipped off every one that we managed to draft).
Anyways, results speak for themselves, the game left Lowe behind and he really put no effort into adapting and understanding how the game was changing.
[Updated on: Mon, 29 June 2020 21:27]
"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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