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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Mon, 25 March 2024 10:35 |
| Kr55 wrote on Sat, 23 March 2024 21:03 |
| oilfan94 wrote on Sat, 23 March 2024 16:57 |
I mean, the only expectation is to win the Stanley Cup at this point. The playoffs are like running the gauntlet. With some luck, this team could pull it off. Unfortunately, this team would require a little more luck than I would like.
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Two of the best players in the NHL, including a generational talent, in their primes and just finishing a 5 year deal of the highest paid GM in the league. Indeed, how can expectations be any less than a cup?
Sad reality is that we got a value return for Holland's 5M per year that lands smewhere between jack Campbell for 5M and Brown for 4M.
Miserable failure GM hires have given this org a permanent handicap for McDavid's entire career.
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They should un-induct Holland from the HOF after his work here. He's truly a disgrace.
Pretty incredible how low fans set the bar though. They point to Hyman and Ekholm and think that that's enough for FIVE FULL YEARS as the highest paid GM in hockey with the best players in the world on the team and zippo to show for it.
I mean, even after he said about this year "we're going for it", what did he do to help the team??? He signed Connor Brown and traded for Adam Henrique, Sam Carrick and Troy Stecher. That's it. It's pretty disappointing.
That said - with McDavid and Draisaitl, you can't count this team out. If we get goaltending, we have a shot to go deep. That's a big IF, but here's hoping. I think that's all we can do now.
Also - semi-hopeful that maybe the coach has more of a playoff game plan than we've seen for most of the last several seasons.
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Feel like a broken record complaining about the same stuff over and over. But that's kind of the fault of our crap management to make the same issues be the weakness of the team over and over.
Can't remember the last team to win a cup on the backs of a few amazing talents, overcoming loads of weakness through the lineup. Especially long standing weakness on defense. Doesn't mean it can't happen, but boy are we trying to give the finger to history and common sense. Not intentionally of course, just via lack of management ability, and a lack of will by the owner to get out of his comfort zone of trusting his friends about every major hire.
Katz gets what he deserves for the lazy hiring practices. I do find some humour in how this $25M GM, who has his entire career built on some miracle picks late in drafts, has ended up with ZERO players in our lineup from 5 years of his drafting. That's just amazing. Katz might think the biggest scam he's experienced was that couple in Hollywood, but he's been getting scammed by the Oilers OBC and the Hockey Canada friends for almost 2 decades straight.
[Updated on: Mon, 25 March 2024 16:13]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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