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Originally Posted by stang
I don’t even mind smith. And I said it before they signed him. Koskinen had similar save% and GAA to Markstrom so I’m not super worried. We were sitting above Calgary in the standings before the world went to hell and they were doing good. Holland is still cleaning up the mess from Pistol Pete and I think he’s doing a good job. On the plus side I promise none of his signings today will be a buyout candidate in 3-5 years. He’s biding his time till next year, when some of these contracts are off the books.
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I don't know man, I look at Holland and he might be slightly better then Chia, but he's been on the losing end of trades,
At the end of the day, he gave up assets and cap space on the Lucic trade, and after a hot start, Neal spent the year looking like butt. He badly lost the AA and Mike Green trades giving up assets for nothing. He's literally in my mind got a even to last years non playoff team, if not slightly worse team, while being at or over the cap at this point.
He didn't get any of the free agents that he should have been targeting, instead getting cast offs that look either past their expiry date in Turris, or are the wrong player to go after in Barrie.
The Oilers slid badly last year towards the end of the regular season and in the comeback and got their faces literally punched in by the worst team trying to qualify for the playoffs, yet I don't see any improvement.
Nobody thinks that his first round draft pick is help on the way and was a stretch.
I wonder if everytime his skype app lights up he panics because the Oilers management group isn't all that patient.
Just looking at lineups at this point, the Oilers are probably the 8th or 9th best team in the west behind.
LV, Vancouver, Calgary, St Louis, Colorado, Dallas, Winnipeg, Nashville.
I would if I was an Oilers fan go into this season with a great deal of pessimism and ask serious questions on why he bought in defensively dead players to a team with a this team scores mentality.
I mean, I don't think that Calgary is great shakes, but I take their blueline, goaltending, and bottom 6 over the Oilers. While the oilers have superior top 6 players on one line in Draisaitl and McDavid, the rest of their top 6 looks average at best.
Holland hasn't done a great job. The Oilers are in cap trouble this year, and even next year they have 11 players signed and maybe 30 million in cap space.
The Oilers have never done a proper rebuild, and now they can't because McDaivid probably won't stand for it, so they're a trapped franchise due to trend water and make the playoffs on a rare basis.