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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
LOL at Brooks trying to blame the NHL for the Oilers icing 17 one less skater. Holland mismanaged the Oilers salary cap situation all by himself as did any other GM that has no cap space. The NHL didn't force Holland to sign Nurse to a $9+ million contract. GM's should be punished for poor salary cap management, not provide get out of jail free cards. I'm sure the Rangers would live a big bump to the salary cap so they could go back to 90's levels of outpaying small market teams. Horrible take by Brooks.
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It's pretty amazing. None of the other 31 teams had to do that.
The Oilers signed like $21M in discretionary AAVs in the off-season, well after the cap ceiling was known:
Janmark 1.25M (now mostly buried in AHL)
Campbell 5M
Kane 5.125M
Yamamoto 3.1M
JPRV 3M
Kulak 2.75M
It's not even poor long-term planning...it was poor immediate execution