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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Goose wrote on Thu, 17 February 2022 14:16 |
| Adam wrote on Thu, 17 February 2022 12:23 |
Zegras is currently the Ducks' second leading scorer with 33 points in 42 games. On the Oilers, he'd be 4th behind only 97, 29 and 93. A first line forward is worth more than a 2nd pairing defenceman.
So if Broberg is a solid second pairing guy in a couple years, we should be glad that he is, but also capable of seeing that our GM made a blunder there, going off the board for someone who, just like all the experts believed, wasn't as good as the guy they could have had.
Assuming that Zegras isn't a flash in the pan, if he continues to score like he has as a rookie, then Broberg is going to need to be more than just a decent second pair guy to cover that bet.
Could teams all use good second pair defencemen? Absolutely - it still doesn't make them better than star forwards. Had we got Travis Hamonic instead of Griffin Reinhart for the Barzal pick, we still would have lost that deal, even though Hamonic is a real 2nd pairing defencemen.
This shouldn't be that controversial or hard to follow...
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I don't even mind the philosophy that you need to build from the backend out. There's more than one way to build a team and teams have successfully employed that philosophy in the past. I think in the Oilers case it ignores a bit the win now mentality that I think they should have given that forwards tend to make the jump earlier than defencemen and Zegras was considered by most to be the better player at the time.
But if that's the philosophy, then can someone please explain the Bear/Foegele trade?
Bear/Zegras >>> Broberg/Foegele.
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Well, Bear made a mistake in a playoff game, and then was getting off the ice after his first shift in an hour when the Jets scored the series winning goal. So you had to get rid of him. Especially after Holland got asked uncomfortable questions about racism because of that player. And then Chicago comes offering a future Hall of Famer for a low low price and what more could the Oilers do really other than trade Bear for a third liner...
I feel like Holland came in thinking he could say that the place was a mess and that no one should expect anything from him for 4-5 years at least, so he could draft a defenceman because "you build from the draft" ignoring the fact we already had the best player in the world and truly should be trying to be competitive from pretty much day 1.
"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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