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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team [message #849389 is a reply to message #849386 ]	Wed, 07 January 2026 10:34

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inverno76 wrote on Wed, 07 January 2026 08:47

Adam wrote on Tue, 06 January 2026 09:07

Skookum Jim wrote on Mon, 05 January 2026 23:40

Broberg makes the Sweden Olympic Team..

.. imagine what a fast, large, puck carrying defenceman could do for the Oilers..

What cudda been..

A big FU to Holland.. Jackson .. who caused the offer sheet.. and Bowman.. who could have matched.

To be fair, I don't think Jackson & Bowman had a great set of choices. By the time they're on the scene, Broberg is already sick of "over-ripening" and has asked for a trade from the team. He wasn't going to be excited about returning and wanted to play somewhere else by then.

It's kind of crazy actually - Holland left other more highly-rated prospects on the board to pick Broberg (can you imagine if we'd had Caufield's shot playing with 97 or 29?) and then just never showed much faith in that bet, always keeping him at the periphery. For Jackson & Holland, they had to make decisions on a couple of players who only a season worth of NHL games under their belt (81 for Broberg, 89 for Holloway). The management could have looked to re-sign them much earlier too and never made any effort.

As bad as Lowe, Tambellini, MacTavish and Chiarelli all were, Holland may be the worst GM we've had. He had the best players, in their absolute prime, and he just dithered and blundered his way through his five years here.

I think people apologize too much for ol'Kenny.

He did sign Hyman, made a great trade for Ekholm, acquired a depth guy who played up the lineup in Kulak, and took a flyer on Kane, but his mishandling of prospects like Broberg, bringing in Wright to head up amateur scouting, signing Campbell, The Nurse extension (overpaying for Keith in a trade contributed to this), 2-2nd's for Abdelkader, not re-upping Holloway far outweigh anything positive he did in his time in Edmonton.

It's funny because how we went after Hyman was the exact same thought process that had him go after Campbell. Shiny object on the UFA market, outbid everyone else for it. It's really just dumb luck that Hyman worked out. Holland has a looooooong list of getting players that way that were complete disasters in Detroit. And Hyman's looking as great as he does is largely because he plays with McDavid so much. On many other teams, his contract would be seen as questionable still. So McDavid was here to make Holland look good for once on a UFA pickup.

I would probably reduce Holland's great moves to Ekholm, who was a cap dump by Nashville and was struggling that season playing with a young D. He was expendable by Nashville with McDonaugh being brought in and Nashville's supreme confidence they can just draft/develop more good D at will, and it didn't actually seem like that many teams were going after him, maybe because of his age. The rumor was that Holland's son convinced him to go after him. So lots of luck on Holland's side on that one too.

Lots of shuffling with bottom 6 players that every other GM does, although Bowman and JJ have combined to do an even worse job lately.

Really, that's a horrid resume for a 5M x 5 year GM. Compare to the low paid GM we passed on that beat us in the finals twice, who has a long list of nailing trades and waiver pickups over and over and over for 4 years in a row to create his cup winner. It's pretty sad. But hey, Kenny got another job anyways!

[Updated on: Wed, 07 January 2026 10:41]

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2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Mon, 08 December 2025 19:21
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Mike on Tue, 09 December 2025 07:07
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Tue, 09 December 2025 11:44
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Fri, 12 December 2025 23:07
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: CrusaderPi on Fri, 02 January 2026 12:10
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Fri, 02 January 2026 20:40
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 31 December 2025 17:49
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Wed, 31 December 2025 20:07
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 31 December 2025 22:15
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Thu, 01 January 2026 09:30
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Thu, 01 January 2026 14:19
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Thu, 01 January 2026 09:14
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Thu, 01 January 2026 21:41
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Mon, 05 January 2026 23:40
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Tue, 06 January 2026 09:07
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: inverno76 on Wed, 07 January 2026 08:47
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Wed, 07 January 2026 10:34
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Mike on Wed, 07 January 2026 11:32
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Wed, 07 January 2026 12:33
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Wed, 07 January 2026 14:31
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: mightyreasoner on Wed, 07 January 2026 10:31
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Thu, 08 January 2026 10:44
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Thu, 08 January 2026 11:13
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Thu, 08 January 2026 12:01
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: CrusaderPi on Thu, 08 January 2026 13:23
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Thu, 08 January 2026 15:11
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Thu, 08 January 2026 13:22
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Wed, 21 January 2026 12:14
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Wed, 21 January 2026 12:43
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Wed, 21 January 2026 13:38
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Wed, 21 January 2026 14:57
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 21 January 2026 19:04
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Fri, 30 January 2026 12:23
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: mightyreasoner on Fri, 30 January 2026 13:48
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Fri, 30 January 2026 17:58
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Fri, 30 January 2026 17:46
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Thu, 05 February 2026 15:02
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Thu, 05 February 2026 15:28
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Thu, 05 February 2026 16:50
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Sun, 08 February 2026 14:27
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: smyth260 on Sun, 08 February 2026 14:54
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Mon, 09 February 2026 14:38
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Thu, 12 February 2026 13:18
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Thu, 12 February 2026 14:17
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Adam on Thu, 12 February 2026 17:29
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Thu, 12 February 2026 21:12
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: tardigrade81 on Wed, 18 February 2026 11:26
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Fri, 13 February 2026 16:11
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Fri, 13 February 2026 17:33
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Sat, 14 February 2026 07:18
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Sat, 14 February 2026 12:44
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Sun, 15 February 2026 10:34
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Sun, 15 February 2026 18:12
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Sun, 15 February 2026 18:57
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Sun, 15 February 2026 20:30
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Mon, 16 February 2026 18:31
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: mightyreasoner on Tue, 17 February 2026 01:35
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Tue, 17 February 2026 09:56
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Tue, 17 February 2026 10:39
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Tue, 17 February 2026 12:31
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 18 February 2026 09:16
Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Kr55 on Wed, 18 February 2026 09:23
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Re: 2026 Mens Olympic Team	By: Mike on Wed, 18 February 2026 11:01
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