It is funny that when the Oilers hired Chiarelli most Flames fans k ew and hoped he would make massive bungles like he did in Boston. Outside of fleecing Burke on Kessel and signing Chara he made many questionable trades. Fast forward to Edmonton and the Hall for Larson and Barzal++for Reinhart deals in addition to Lucic, Sekera and other bad contracts signed. His only saving grace was getting McDrai on 8 year deals and that can’t be ignored as those were great moves.
Fast forward to Ken Holland and the fans were equally concerned with his recent track record. Ken was not afraid of term going after Markstrom and Hyman with max term offers. He couldn’t land Marky and went with Smith for several years and shifted to Campbell on a 5x5 when no other teams were offering that much and now he is on waivers less than halfway into that deal. Holland has been everything we could ask for in terms of wasting years of the primes of 2 of the leagues best players.
To see Edmonton fail to get to the playoffs in McDavid’d age 26-27 season would be a thing of beauty. Absolute Cinema
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