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 Kr55
Messages: 12884
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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| Adam wrote on Mon, 29 December 2025 12:50 |
Carolina takes him.
I'm not sure what the Oilers are doing with their bottom six. They have all these zombie veteran forwards who get nothing done, and then they allow Tomasek to go back to Europe and now they lose Philp on waivers.
It's worth noting we have MAX JONES on the roster still. Curtis Lazar continues to centre our fourth line. Henrique has given us a steady diet of nothing all year. Janmark has scored on a goalie only twice I think in the last two seasons.
I understand that the coach doesn't like to take a lot of risks in the bottom half of the roster, but this is taking things to an extreme level. It's just foolish to expect your top two lines to win you every game. We have such high skill up there that they've got us close to a Cup two years in a row, but ultimately, you need contributions from all four lines. The Oilers haven't seemed to understand that for 15 years.
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Got lots of players on this roster that perform basically equivalent to Philip. Only, Philip costed 750k, while lots of the other useless guys make 1-4M.
Definitely not impressed with how Bowman is handling the bottom 6 group. Zero playmaking ability down there. All you can hope from any of them to make some positive impact on a game is some decent PKing. PKing forwards honestly are a dime a dozen though, the forward activity is more about coaching that anything else.
"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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