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Originally Posted by itsmagic
GoJetsGo
Not an Oilers fan.
A Flames fan and more importantly a hockey fan.
I was disucussing how the Yakupov trade for spare parts was, in my view, an opportunity to blow off his salary for the cap space, not for the assets required.
Later Chiarelli aquired Kris Russell for a one year deal.
Considering the difference in money out/money in, and considering the Oilers needed a veteran defenceman more than they needed Yakupov, not such a bad outcome.
Someone noted Yakupov's two points in his first game. So what. Kris Russell effectively replaces Yakupov salary cap wise.
Seriously people, are we so grasping at anything for comfort after game 1, that we can't have a civil conversation about the Yakupov trade?
I simply offered an alternate theory to the one that says the Oilers got nothing for Yakupov in the St Louis trade.
I say they did...the cap space to sign Russell, an asset that they were sorely lacking.
Are we incapable of civil discussion on the original topic. Seriously.
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It can be the correct move to make and terrible asset management / Player development at the same time. Freeing cap space to sign Russel was a good move that needed to be done. Not being able to sign Versteeg and getting to he point with Yakupov that he needed to be given away so you had room to sign a 4/5 d-man because you had none in your system that were close is terrible development and asset management.
Same with the Hall trade, not developing Hall 's defensive game properly so you could trade him for a number 1 defensemen rather than a 2/3 defensemen is a failure of asset management and development made necessary by blowing other tradeable assets (Reinhart trade) terrible management. But on balance trading Hall for Larson made the Oilers better long term.
So provided Chia has a greater stream of incoming assets in than the rest of the NHL he can afford to get negative value on his trades to fill holes they are unable to fill internally. However now that the Oilers look like a 10th - 13th place team the stream of elite assets will stop and his getting 75 cents on the dollar for trades will start to cost him the same way it did in Boston.
So is Edmonton better at hockey then they were before Yak and Hall were done -- Yes. Did they maximize the value of the assets they had -- No.