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 Adam
Messages: 7757
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Kr55 wrote on Thu, 06 April 2023 08:08 |
Best xGF on the team in the new year. He makes mistakes for sure, but he's making good plays all night long in his end and the neutral zone with the puck. I've personally been surprised at his creativity making plays in the last couple months. It's stuff that I guess not everyone appreciates, especially people that are looking for 1 mistake to rant about, but he's making plays all night that not many D on our team can do. IMO we need to lock this guy up. Once he gets really comfortable on the PP, especially on our PP where the goals are constantly flowing, he could be a 9m+ guy as UFA, especially if the cap starts moving up again.
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I agree with everything you've written here. I wonder if the Oilers see it. Our dunce cap media definitely doesn't, and we're going to get only stories that Ekholm has been the full difference maker there - ignoring that when paired with Broberg, Bouchard was also really good.
Honestly, I still will not be shocked if the Oilers re-visit a Erik Karlsson trade in the summer and deal Bouchard back the other way. I think we'd live to regret that, but such is life as an Oilers fan. If they keep him, I expect that the team tries to save some money by pushing the Ekholm as difference maker narrative, and then bridging Bouchard.
What they should do? Lock him up for as long as they can at as cheap as they can.
"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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