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Originally Posted by Northendzone
To me he is the riskiest RFA signing. He could be real good like first two years, or not so great like last year.
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Totally agree - what the hell do you sign him to... and to what term?
Same with his former teammate Jesse Puljujärvi.... he has sucked in Edmonton.... but if the Oilers threw him in on the Lucic trade for basically nothing... I would love to sign him to a one or two year value "prove yourself" contract. He want's out of Edmonton and the only way he signs there is for way too much... so basically he's a free agent next year or Edmonton trades his right and at least gets something (maybe a third or forth round pick)... I was hoping that Brad would have negotiated him in for nothing on the Lucic deal... really... what is the loss to Edmonton for that, and forget the conditional third if they do that. (I suspect that's exactly what went down - and Edmonton didn't want to so gave us that highly conditioned third round pick instead - but I also suspect that things have soured on Jesse for Edmonton since that deal). Edmonton has until Christmas to get something for him.... or else his value really drops as he's ineligible to play next season and then his value drops to nothing next July 1 as he enters free agency.