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Originally Posted by Groot
I don't know why you've chosen to carry water for the Oilers but whatever.
Henrique Is 34 years old, hasn't played a full season due to injury in 5 years, and he's a 3rd or 4th line player. He may be slightly more than $3 on the open market, but the Oilers gave him 2 years to bring the AAV down. $3 million for 2 years of a 34-year old, 3rd/4th line player that likely won't play more than 3/4 of the season. Hardly any discount.
Skinner made $100M as one of the worst contracts in the league. He's a huge risk. He's 32. He's a defensive liability and if he's not scoring he's useless. 1/4 of his goals were on the Powerplay. He won't be playing on the PP in Edmonton unless they give unit 2 a couple seconds every other game. He signed a fair value "show me" contract.
Yes, Arvidsson is a bounce back candidate. He's also an injury risk. A back injury for a 31-year old is no small thing, especially when it caused him to miss basically the season. Until another injury took him out after he returned. Regardless, his last contract was $4.25 per year. He signed for $4 per year. Hard to say he warranted getting a raise, he signed a contract that values 31-year old injury return Arvidsson the same as 24-year old, healthy and higher production Arvidsson. No discount there.
So no, it hasn't happened 3 times this offseason alone, it hasn't happened at all. Oilers signed risky vets to market value contracts, no matter what the Oilers media or insane fanboys try to sell you.
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One, because I enjoy talking hockey.
Two, what I want is for the Oilers to come away from this decade plus of futility with nothing. I don’t want them rewarded for tanking and getting four 1st overall picks, one of which happens to be the best player since Mario Lemieux.
So it would’ve been great if they’d paid a bottom pairing D and a bottom-6 forward $7M they don’t have.
Instead, they have cap space and capital to spend on whoever they want at the deadline, and I’m guessing those rentals are going to have a more of an impact than two kids who’ve combined for 31 points in 170 games.
Do you want them to win? Because they’re in a better position to do that now than they were before.