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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 29 June 2023 16:00 |
| inverno76 wrote on Thu, 29 June 2023 15:22 |
The core is set. I would like to see Kane moved, but this what we can expect going forward. We are papering over our holes on a year to year basis. The bottom 6 will have a couple changes. The top 6 will have a player slide in and out. The core is there to stay for the parade.
The defense is the question mark.
Another thought. Would you rather have a set roster with no wiggle room, or some cap space for deadline acquisitions? Some Ekholm-like deals will be available in the spring of 2024.
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The core is set, but the core isn't good enough to win. Yammo is not the reason the Oilers aren't a real contender. We're tinkering around the edges on our Indy car and wondering why the F1 teams blow us out of the water.
I want wiggle room. All day, everyday. An organization has to be able to move and adapt as unforeseen circumstances inevitably arise. Unfortunately the Oilers, because of mismanagement, have bought themselves exactly 2 days of wiggle room. They're looking at another season with a 21 man roster because it's set in stone. I figuratively eat my hat if if the Cap Space isn't spent and the roster isn't basically set by Saturday night.
| inverno76 wrote on Thu, 29 June 2023 15:17 |
What happens if his desired outcome is to make the team as good as possible? I am no Holland fanboy, but this narrative that his team is lost at sea is a bit conjecture. I thought Holland has made some decent moves in the last calendar year (I am completely ignoring the Campbell albatross).
We also turned a 5th into Grubbe, which is kinda move up on the draft board. Also I am not sure if anyone noticed but the draft floor was relatively quiet with GM's holding onto their picks.
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I have no doubt Ken would like to make the team as good as possible. Where I have my doubts is his ability to make that happen. He certainly has a plan, but I've seen nothing to suggest that his plan will manifest as anywhere good enough on the ice. Swapping out an overpriced Yammo for whatever deck chair he has in mind Saturday isn't going to move the team's needle. He simply has a plan and hope.
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Not to mention his plan is built on huge flaws. He talks about them all the time - like the importance of older players to the roster, and not wanting to rely on younger players in depth roles.
If you look at a lot of the successful teams in the cap era, they're successful because they use good young players on cheap deals. The Oilers instead prefer to have more 30-year olds on the team who might play 'responsibly' - even if that doesn't line up with any of the actual data on them.
He's also stuck on the opinion he cannot improve the team and that cap space is the reason why. A better GM would be looking for solutions, not simply complaining to the media that the cap (which is the same for all teams, remember) hasn't gone up as much as he thought it might.
Even today, he's saying that he's stuck with bridge deals because the cap, and he couldn't afford to pay Kostin because of the cap, and he'd have liked to keep Yamo and thinks his salary was not an overpay, but that damn cap again.
It's super concerning going into maybe the most important couple years in team history, that the GM is stymied in to inaction because the team is too close to the cap, based on all the deals he signed.
"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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