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 CrusaderPi
Messages: 7763
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
6 Cups
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| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 24 October 2023 11:41 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 24 October 2023 11:19 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 24 October 2023 10:47 |
| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 24 October 2023 10:37 |
Bob Stauffer @Bob_Stauffer
The @EdmontonOilers
in Minnesota:
Kane-Draisaitl-Janmark
Foegele-RNH-Hyman
Holloway-McLeod-Brown
Erne-Ryan
Nurse-Ceci
Ekholm-Bouchard
Kulak-Broberg/Desharnais
Campbell
Skinner
Holloway is just never allowed into the top 6 eh?
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What's wrong with playing with the players they have him with? That has the makings of one hell of a line that should be going up against other teams 3rd lines and 3rd pairing dmen and do some serious damage.
Just optics being the problem?
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I see a couple problems. I'd be asking who is more likely to score on the wing with Kane and Draisaitl? Janmark who normally plays center or Holloway? With McDavid out the Oilers have to think about where the points will come from. I also don't see the current third turning into a line of any real importance. Yes, it's a small sample size but their old school stats are a combined 0 points with a -8. I'm not all that worried about keeping them together especially if it means sacrificing potential first line scoring during the games where they'll need it the most.
It makes more sense to me to put Brown up on the first to see if he's worth the 3.2 million of cap space he's going to eat up next season, but that's the next coach and GM's problem. Lastly I'll mention the horrible management who constructed a team where any injury would leave the lines looking like this. Bad luck, I suppose.
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damn it, Brown. 4 more games and he is taking our entire cap increase next year. Can we be jerks and waive/demote him? I do not like the cost benefit of that acquisition right now.
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I'd certainly be doing everything I can to find out what Brown is and is capable of right now. Of course the Oilers are so tight to the cap for some reason that if they do demote him they probably can't afford to replace him. Shrug. It was impossible to see this as an outcome.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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