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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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| Mike wrote on Wed, 24 September 2025 11:56 |
| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 24 September 2025 12:39 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 24 September 2025 09:36 |
| inverno76 wrote on Tue, 23 September 2025 13:18 |
Still adjusting to the new cap era, and I suppose this is an affordable deal now. 1M-2M players will be ELC’s and rehab players.
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I don't really agree with this. Teams need to understand where they have negotiating power. Podkolzin has an ideal situation here. He's getting to play with top players in a significant role. He's got a decent shot at winning a Cup. He hasn't put up any numbers to speak of, and he is only RFA. What's his leverage? A potential arbitration 10 months from now? He better perform if he wants to get anything decent from the arbitrator.
If he outperforms, then maybe it works out, but he hasn't shown tremendous hands as an Oiler despite being given a lot of opportunity. We will see. I hope I'm wrong here.
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This is what I was trying to convey too. Instead of us using how much he loves the team and relationships he is building and what a golden opportunity he was gifted here to encourage him to sign cheaper to stay, it seems like he actually used that leverage against us. We paid him top dollar because we like him so much, and we seem almost desperate to keep a guy that has been a career 4th liners so far. Seems to always work out that way with Oilers management these last couple decades.
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Death by a thousand cuts. An extra $500k here, a million there. And we have room for one less impact player somewhere down the road. I keep going back to the same question every time I see Oilers deals announced: if THIS is what they settled on, what the hell was the initial ask?
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Maybe this helps make the case to McDavid that he really does need to give us a good discount to keep these kinds of guys around that he and the teammates love :)
"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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