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 Adam
Messages: 7757
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 28 October 2024 19:32 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Mon, 28 October 2024 19:28 |
| HamBlaster wrote on Mon, 28 October 2024 18:23 |
....What a tire fire of a team. The mismanagement of this team needs to be studied.
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The Nurse signing (franchise boat anchor).. Campbell signing.. losing BOTH Broberg and Holloway (both with top NHL speed).. for nothing.. all GM'ing and poor talent appraisal.
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We're at year 25 of the bad management problem. After a certain point it stops being a problem and starts being who you are.
The Oilers can win games without McDavid. Of course they can also lose a lot without him. All eyes on Draisaitl to earn that contract now.
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The problem is that the team did handle Broberg & Holloway right this summer. They couldn't overpay either of those players, and they made the right decision stepping away from the offer. Yes, they're on massive heaters to start the year, and Broberg is in a nice spot where there's very little in front of him in St. Louis on the depth chart.
Good for them on getting paid and for finding a nice landing spot for themselves. Holland definitely made errors in their development paths, and the idea of just continuing to push players down when they maybe deserved to be able to show what they can do at the NHL level, especially as we pushed forward with marginal NHL players ahead of them.
But I think it's something we have to move on from. The reality of the salary cap system is that we won't be able to keep everyone as a contender. We will need to constantly backfill as some of these marginal pieces graduate and we need to move on from them. We've seen this with Chicago and Los Angeles and Pittsburgh in the last decade and a half. To keep together the core means they let others walk. If they don't have adequate management, then there's a slow decay, although superstars can cover up a lot of faults for some time.
I don't think we need to mention Philip Broberg every time we lose though. He's not the difference maker here, nor is Dylan Holloway.
I do wonder about the decision to bring back Corey Perry. I do question whether Derek Ryan has the speed to still be an NHL player, and I wonder if we wouldn't have been better waiving him than Raph Lavoie (although Lavoie also isn't a reason why we are where we're at). The decision to once again move forward with the same goaltending tandem seems absolutely bonkers to me, but we do have some limitations given cap space.
Sometimes, a team needs a little adversity to rally around, so hopefully they pull together without 97 and some other people grab the bull by the horns here. We're going to need it.
"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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