With all my desire to hate on the Oilers, I have to say, signing Fo Sheezy my Breezy in isolation is a good move. It's not a slam dunk, but because they got a cost effective short term contract, it's a pretty low risk move that could pay off in spades and improve their club if he plays as well as he's capable of.
In the bigger picture though, they did essentially have to give up one of their best, relatively young, and contract friendly D-men to facilitate this move, on an already weak defensive team. I guess we will have to see what else MacT might have up his sleeve and how the assets the Flames gave up work out for them long term to fully evaluate Mac's strategy here, but it really is unfortunate for them that they had to weaken their D to pull this off.
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