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Originally Posted by Vinny01
How about the narrative that the players that are going to give the Oilers cap trouble are not their good players?
Nuge, Eberle, Lucic, Sekera take up $23.5M and not one is a top line forward or top pairing D.
At the end of the day at least your GM is a wizard at managing the cap. It is not like Boston moved out Seguin and Peverly because of a cap crunch, or forced to move Hamilton because of offer sheet threats.
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all Chiarelli's teams do is win yet he's at fault for the Hamilton moves (false) and the fact Neely disliked Seguin
Lucic and Sekera are fine and doing their jobs...Lucic was right on par with his previous seasons totals...same with Sekera
both were UFAs, so of course teams "overpay"
Eberle still had a 50 point season despite the no-show in the playoffs...and his contract ends in 2 years...(along with Pouliot, who will be bought-out, buried, whatever)
Nuge is a valuable trading chip due to being a center and still young
and who knows where the cap will be in 2 years? 75 million? 77 million? so many variables in play we can't account for