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Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal [message #847601 is a reply to message #847597 ]	Wed, 24 September 2025 15:31

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Kr55 wrote on Wed, 24 September 2025 09:39

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.

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.

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.

Yes - in talking to his agent, I'd have been pointing out HOW much time he played with Draisaitl, as compared to, say, Jeff Skinner, and then at how Skinner outscored him last year scoring 3 more points in 10 less games, with worse linemates at every turn. Podkolzin hits more, but how much are you paying for someone doing that? Yes, Skinner is making $3MM this year in San Jose, but A) he was UFA and B) he's got a much stronger track record to fall back on.

If Podkolzin wasn't here, is another team playing him in the role he's currently got? If he's not with Draisaitl but playing on, say Detroit's third line - what does that do to his production? If he wins an arbitration award next year that we walk away from, he could very well end up on a one-year deal somewhere and then if that doesn't go well he's struggling to find work.

He's now got a home here for the next four years - I think he should have had to leave more money on the table in order to get that.

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Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Mike on Tue, 23 September 2025 10:31
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Kr55 on Tue, 23 September 2025 10:35
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: welcometotheOC on Tue, 23 September 2025 10:47
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Kr55 on Tue, 23 September 2025 10:58
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Adam on Wed, 24 September 2025 09:29
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Mike on Tue, 23 September 2025 11:07
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Kr55 on Tue, 23 September 2025 11:13
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Skookum Jim on Tue, 23 September 2025 11:24
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: inverno76 on Tue, 23 September 2025 13:18
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: oilfan94 on Tue, 23 September 2025 17:04
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Adam on Wed, 24 September 2025 09:36
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Kr55 on Wed, 24 September 2025 09:39
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Mike on Wed, 24 September 2025 11:56
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Kr55 on Wed, 24 September 2025 13:20
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Adam on Wed, 24 September 2025 15:31
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: smyth260 on Tue, 23 September 2025 14:51
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Skookum Jim on Tue, 23 September 2025 16:00
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: smyth260 on Tue, 23 September 2025 18:09
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: welcometotheOC on Tue, 23 September 2025 18:12
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Kr55 on Tue, 23 September 2025 18:33
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Skookum Jim on Tue, 23 September 2025 19:24
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: welcometotheOC on Tue, 23 September 2025 21:43
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Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: welcometotheOC on Wed, 24 September 2025 21:06
Re: Oilers Sign Podkolzin to 3 Year Deal	By: Kr55 on Wed, 24 September 2025 22:19
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