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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 12:19 |
Freds signing looking like one of teh worst yet.. Mangiapane's is not far behind..
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There's no defending the Frederic re-signing and you're even seeing some people in the Oilers organization looking to disavow it now with some reporting that Bowman disregarded advice from analytics and scouting staff in making that signing.
I will say, while I understand the early frustration with Mangiapane, I think we need to not get set in on evaluations. He was bleeding goals against to November 15th. I think he's been a lot better since. Since Nov 15th, he's played 13 games with 0-4-4 and is +1. In the first 20 games he was 4-2-6, but -16. Worth noting that he had 3 terrible games in a week which 10 of his minuses came from.
I know he had a season with Calgary where he had 55 points, but that's an anomaly in his history. He's scored at 0.47 ppg over his career, which means he's about 5 points off the pace right now, but he's also playing exclusively in a depth role right now so not seeing the same ice time as he would have in some of his stops, and he'll get next to no PP time in Edmonton (if you factor that in to his career numbers, he's only 3 points off the pace). Last year he scored 28 points in 81 games (5 on the PP) so very similar to the pace this year.
I'd like to see more offence from him, but as bottom six guy, he's not costing the Oilers anything when he's on the ice and he has better offensive touch than most of that crew there (although that's not exactly a clash of the titans).
I don't think he's got run him out of town on a rail numbers - just need to level set on expectations. He's not a 50-point player.
[Updated on: Tue, 16 December 2025 14:37]
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