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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
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
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And all of this with Smith doing a fishy LTIR and Keith “retiring”.