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Originally Posted by Locke
Unbelievable.
They needed Roy and Arcobello! They have no centres. They need centres. This is a lateral move at best but more likely a downgrade.
So they traded a 26 year old RFA making $600K for a 31 year old UFA making $1M.
I just...words fail me. Where do they find these people?
In other news, Arcobello now believes that there exists a loving and benevolent God.
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Having Roy
and Arcobello arguably makes the Oilers a better team.
A better Oilers team has less of a chance of drafting Connor McDavid.
Drafting Connor McDavid is the only possible strategy I see the Oilers pursuing at this point, based on their repeated actions.
Ergo, Arcobello is traded for Roy instead.
At least that's how I try to rationalize this. It's not easy... it's not like Nashville needed a centre in return for Roy, let alone one of Arcobello's calibre. But the Oilers found a way to trade him anyways.