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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Magnum wrote on Mon, 04 March 2019 14:50 |
| Adam wrote on Mon, 04 March 2019 14:48 |
| Pseudoreality wrote on Mon, 04 March 2019 13:49 |
| Steve wrote on Mon, 04 March 2019 10:42 |
As long as Katz keeps the money flowing, I would prefer him to Melnyk. At least there is a potential for getting lucky 1 year in 15.
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See I think money is part of the problem. There is no reason why this team should be right up against the cap and be in the bottom of the standings year after year. It really doesn't cost that much to lose. Arizona can seem to be able to lose for a lot less money. The team should have a budget. That would enable to be more flexible and not be stuck with as much dead weight. Pay players what they deserve, not what you expect of their potential. If the team starts winning, like back to back 2nd round playoffs, then the budget can be increased. Having room in the budget is what worked for the team in 2004.
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The staggering thing is that the Oilers under Daryl Katz have the worst record of any team in the league in that time, and they've spent close to the cap every year. I think last year was probably the furthest they were from the cap.
We are the least efficient team with money in the league, although all of that comes back to bad management. Guys who don't know what they're doing believe they can spend their way out of the problem...
Eventually they do HAVE to spend their way out of the problems, because agents identify the weakness and demand a premium if their clients are coming to Edmonton.
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But, what about Oielrs' corp income to NHL player spending?
Shinny new 1st overall's are cheap and generate a lot of gate revenue!
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That's the thing - they've wasted all the cheap contracts. It doesn't matter if you have those guys dirt cheap if you're paying top dollar to Nikita Nikitin and Eric Belanger and Andrew Ference and Cam Barker. The team has spent to the cap again and again and again...they haven't maxed out their earnings ever...they could achieve these results with a team that costs $15-20MM less every year. And if they ever made the playoffs, they would make more yet.
I don't think the financial performance of the Oilers is a big motivator for Katz, because if they were, he'd have either cut costs dramatically before now, or demanded competence from his front office. Maybe even both.
Worth remembering that through the last decade that Sather was here, with no salary cap and little money to spare, the team made the playoffs more often than not. A few less teams in the league made that easier, but the team was generally competitive, even when playing teams with three times the payroll. Under Katz, we have done worse than low budget teams like Arizona or Buffalo or Florida...
"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
#FireBobbyNicks
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