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Originally Posted by Boreal
Great. Nice that you could finally admit that you’re wrong. Good luck with basic logic in the future.
Elsewhere in the wild & crazy real world where “anything could happen”, amazingly Dallas was able to secure a similar asset in Sam Steel, who had better production without taking on another teams dead weight contract. Hmm.. and another Detroit acoylyte running that organization as well. Maybe he’s the smarter one that isn’t interested in helping out a former coworker’s team in the same conference.
Crazy luck I guess.
Finally, no one beside you has said “everyone” or “anyone” was “just helping out a mid-market Canadian team with the biggest superstar in the league out of the kindness of their hearts.”
It was a specific person & team.
The person and team helping out the Oilers isn’t some spurious rando. The exact team and person have a direct working history with the Oilers GM in the same franchise dating back well over 3 decades.
But keeping moving the goalposts, no one is falling for your nonsense.
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“nice you could finally admit you’re wrong”
“keep moving the goalposts”
“no one is falling for your nonsense”
Guy, you can barely read and you’re having a super serious temper tantrum because someone disagreed that Detroit could have just had an RFA of another team “for nothing.” Touch grass. Take a breath. Maybe reduce the snark by 80% if you freak out when you get it back, otherwise you look dumb.
I think the fact that Kostin got 2 years at 2 million shows he had much higher value than Steel who could only pull one year at under a million. Unless you think that Yzerman also paid Kostin more as some kind of gift to the Oilers, too?
It doesn’t matter if Yzerman knows Holland. It’s not his money. What’s he going to do, go to his boss and say “Hey sorry I threw one million in the garbage because a guy I used to work with asked me to and then I signed a player to $2M per season even though someone online said I could have gotten a similar asset for nothing, that OK?” Probably not, right? He’s a professional and a pretty well-respected one in the league, but one deal with the Oilers and apparently he’s just damaging his reputation and wasting some cap to do them a solid. Sounds realistic.
Regardless of how anyone spins it, if Detroit wanted Kostin, there was no guarantee they could get him without the trade. So they made the trade. It’s far less dramatic than you need it to be, but it is what it is. Oilers lost two players they would have liked to have kept because they’re poorly managed. Edmonton remains no good.