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Originally Posted by Philly06Cup
Uh no, but I try to look at it from the Oilers perspective.
McDavid has 5 years left; Drai 4. They should be mortgaging their future to go all in and get good players to play with McDrai for the next 4 years. Use all your 2025+ picks and cap space to win now. If you don't, McDavid/Drai will leave and you will have wasted your golden ticket. That should be the plan, and them acting within that plan makes a lot of sense.
They've already wasted 6 years of McDavid having him play with no-talent sucks like Neal, Chiasson, Kassian, Archibald. On the back end, their best players have been Kris Russell, Klefbom, Sekera, and Larsson. That's a lot of suck.
This deal is a big overpay, but a) they need good players on their team now. b) the worst part of the contract will be in years 4+. This reasoning also shows why the Hyman signing is smart for them. Ceci is terrible though.
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I agree with you. Holland's basically throwing all his hopes into the next 4 years. He doesn't care about long term down the road. His mandate is probably to try to get the team competitive until their window closes and both McDavid and Draisaitl are gone.
It wouldn't be a bad strategy if the Oilers were actually built properly around McDavid. But alas, that team is such a tire fire mess, it's hilarious to watch them piss away cap space to overpay for mediocre talent.
Nurse is a 2nd pairing dman that overachieved last year because of the weak North division competition. I bet he becomes the new Oilers whipping boy in a couple of years.