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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
And still without any sort of even reasonable second line C (unless Draisatl is the guy).
Almost 20M on third lines (11.5M on the 3rd line, 8M on third defensive pairing), and locked up for some time.
There is no real way to improve that team, imo. They are stuck with what they have.
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Very similar to last year when Edmonton was up against the cap. They expected that last years team was going to be a playoff bound team.
They thought wrong.
This years team is looking like such a miss match of throw away players (Poulliot, Purcell. Lower level guys being pushed into higher spots NN and Faye, and the rest of the mismatched stuff.
I can see the Oilers being slightly better this year, but not all that much better this year.