RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 26 July 2023 16:27

CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 26 July 2023 16:17 RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 26 July 2023 15:48 inverno76 wrote on Wed, 26 July 2023 15:12 CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 26 July 2023 14:44 RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 26 July 2023 13:58 Hyman's career high in goals and points was 21 G 41 pts in 71 games. First year as an Oiler playing with on of McD or Leon as his center, 27G, 54 pts in 76 games, career high. Last season 36G, 83 pts in 79 games playing with one of McD or Leon as his center. Do I expect Hyman to score last years numbers every season? Of course not but do I think he will be higher than his previous career high of 21 and 41 for most of the seasons in his contract? Yes I do. I know you don't like to say anything remotely positive about anything Oilers but is it unrealistic to think Brown could potentially improve on his career highs to some degree? No it is not. It's not. The potential is certainly there. I would just caution against expecting that to happen, there is some risk of a career average year. Which makes some risk of team expectations not being met before Drai's contract is up. There is risk with any free agent signing. Heck, there is a risk with players who are already under contract. If we weren't up against the cap the Brown signing would not even be a talking point. We can deliberate the signing all day long, but the proof will be in the pudding and we need to see what the regular season brings us. The player is a solid gamble, but the deferred money sucks. I would take a recovering Brown over a smallish injury prone Yamo or Puljujarvi on most days. Weak UFA pool and the team needed move all-in. This is Holland's gamble and the future issues of the deferred money is next years problem. I agree. There are so many things that can happen we don't know about. People want the Oilers to go for it. This is going for it. Apparently Brown had offers from other teams for around 4 mill. I assume they were probably weaker teams and he wanted a chance to win plus the chance to probably play with McD and potentially super inflate his numbers for a big contract. There is risk in every single free agent deal but I think this was a pretty good bet to try. *IF* Brown did get offers around 4 million, it's another failure from Holland not to leverage playing with McDavid and having a totally legit chance to win a cup into a smaller 'show me' contract. Of course it seems more likely that rumor was created to justify blowing up next year's cap. Better hope the cap goes way up next year because this is looking a lot like the only chance the Oilers will have to go for it. OK. Thanks. I hope things get better for you so you aren't so miserable all the time. I am being genuine. It has to suck being angry about something all the time.

Do you realize how rude it is to assume that someone is full-time miserable simply because they're making legitimate critiques? CrusaderPi is making a rational, well-thought out argument here as to why the Oilers move isn't likely a game-changer for the team.

RDOF, you regularly go off about feeling people are treating you poorly here when they debate you. Maybe you don't realize how that comes off, but it doesn't exactly show you as a sunshine-y person. You also have a habit of absolutely hating certain players and cheering on their failures in life as if them not getting the next contract somehow wins you money or something. Again - it's not something that would lead anyone here to picture you as the model of gaiety. Would you appreciate being told that you were hopelessly depressed or that you were angry at the world all the time? You've certainly shown a lot more rage than CrusaderPi ever has at this stuff, so I might suggest leaving that kind of comment off your posts and stick to trying to make rational arguments to support your position. You'll come off much more likeable and you're more likely to convince someone you're right than when you're trying to dismiss people's arguments as emotionally-driven due to deep-seated unhappiness in life.

Honestly, it's just a lot more mature to leave that kind of snide insult out of your posts too.

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