Kr55 wrote on Tue, 23 September 2025 17:33

welcometotheOC wrote on Tue, 23 September 2025 18:12 Not the same player, but that is what people said about Holloway and Broberg. The Oilers absolutely cannot afford to lose any more even decent young players. If he has a better season points-wise he would be another relatively cheap offer sheet target. Would we categorize Podz the same as we prospects that never really got a shot on a big club to show what they can do? Those guys never got to a point where the team that drafted them threw the towel in because they failed pretty badly to do anything with opportunities they were given. Podz looked like a struggling 4th liner for extended periods this season even for us. We’ll see how this turns out. But we definitely need him to do more than he has ever consistently shown in 217 career games (more than Broberg and Holloway had combined when they left Edmonton) for this to look like a fair deal.

Not sure comparing to Holloway is completely fair.. we could have signed Holloway for less than the 3M we've signed Podz to next year (maybe 750K less).. but it looks like Holloway's next contract as RFA (next season) will likely be over 5M or maybe 6M (he's got arb rights) .. while we'll have Podz at 3M next year .. so is Holloway worth twice as much as Podz.. ? maybe .. but hopefully Podz narrows that gap this season..

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