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 Adam
Messages: 6854
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Kr55 wrote on Thu, 28 January 2021 23:23 |
Every time we have some cap we toss it to a Russell or Kassian or Chaisson or Koskinen. Eternally up against the cap can falling in love with some guy that played good for a month so we give him a long term overpriced deal.
There is no way this team could pull off a McDavid trade, no matter what we got back. Our path would be Ottawa basically with more overpriced plugs, and without being able to draft anyone decent outside of the 1st round.
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That's where the biggest errors have been. The team hasn't ever played their cards right with McDavid. The first couple years after he landed, there was a buzz around the league about him and people actually wanted to come here, but the Oilers never really made that count. They got Milan Lucic and they didn't get him at a discount. They traded away Hall who was on a bargain contract and driving results even when not playing with McDavid.
There's a bit of a blip there as things start taking a turn for the worse, but then McDavid gives them money back on his second contract, and there's an opportunity to go and squeeze everyone else who becomes a free agent or wants to come here by saying - the best player took a discount so we can ice a winner, and everyone else has to as well. Instead they give PREMIUM contracts to guys like Russell and Gryba that summer. The management has been ridiculously bad and they could conceivably miss the playoffs for the 5th time in 6 McDavid years (if you don't include the play-ins that weren't really playoffs). That's completely unforgivable and every Oilers fan should always be livid about that.
The Gretzky Oilers NEVER missed the playoffs. Not once. Crosby's missed the post-season twice in his whole career including losing the play-ins last season. I've heard people urge patience by saying Ovechkin didn't win until his 13th season, but he's only missed the post-season three times, including his first two years when the team was horrible.
There's no good excuse for not building a better, stronger, deeper team around McDavid and Draisaitl. It's taken stunning incompetence to end up where we're at.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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