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Old 10-16-2022, 09:30 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by powderjunkie View Post
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

I don't understand why they pay Kane so much when there was no other team bidding against them. May be the guy sitting on Holland's right shoulder whisper $3 and then the guy on his left shoulder whisper $4 and the guy on the left counter $5 and the right side guy said $5.125?


And Kulak getting paid $2.75M?
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