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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
Seravalli
May 29: Frank Seravalli from DailyFaceoff.com believes Draisaitl will remain an Oiler for a long time. Yeah I don’t see it (Draisaitl leaving) and I don’t really understand the hysteria and buzz around it because I’ve always viewed these two players as a package deal. There’s only one place that Draisaitl can play with the best player on planet Earth, and it’s here in Edmonton. It’s going to be hard to envision those two separating from each other.
Jun 14: Frank Seravalli of the Daily Faceoff, his prediction that the Edmonton Oilers will sign up Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid and Evan Bouchard, paying $40 million per year for all. Where else are you going to go to play with Connor McDavid? He’s not going anywhere.
Aug 13: “The sense that I’ve gotten in talking to people close to it is that the end result, the end number may end up surprising people a little bit in terms of how reasonable it ends up being,” Seravalli said
Aug 27: "On a money basis, AAV, I think these two sides are a little further apart than I envisioned."
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Who could imagine that after nearly a decade of winning nothing in Edmonton, while playing with the best player on the planet, that maybe he wants to jump ship and go play in San Jose, for instance, and be the guy driving the ship out of their rebuild with a boatload of good young talent around him? If I'm him and the Sharks are offering a similar or better deal, I'm all over it without a second thought.
The Oilers and some of the fans and media seem to be missing the one key component of players like Leon wanting to stay and "chase cups" and that means actually winning something before you start beating the drum of excellence. Without any cups you strip it down to simply playing in a dump of a city, with terrible taxes, too much media attention, terrible weather and terrible travel. The days are really long in the summer though.