Who here had, Oilers would clear the space required to match the sheets through trades and then not bother to match either on their bingo cards?
Pretty wild ending to the saga IMO.
I was pretty high on Holloway and figured he would become a middle six winger for the team. Even at $2.3 million, if Holloway became that player over the course of the contract, it would be a bargain deal.
It appears that either the Oilers decided that the additions of Podkolzin and Emberson would replicate Broberg's and Holloway's contributions to the club, or Kane is not going on IR and they had to just make space for that to happen.
Emberson has the analytics guys in a stir already. Will be interesting to follow this guy through the season to see if there is any merit to what the models are seeing in him.
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