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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Well they fit Holloway and Broberg so I see your point.
The fact that they are currently over 75 million with about 17 million left to sign Bouchard, one other dman and 5 other forwards is probably a reason why 3.2 million would be tough, even if they had the assets to acquire said player.
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Holloway and Broberg are a different issue. Could they have resigned them? Maybe. I’ll go out on a limb and say neither you or I were in the room when the Oilers made their decision.
Maybe they would rather have had the cap flexibility for this year? Somehow I doubt they slapped their foreheads, sunk in their chairs, and said ‘whelp, we sure are screwed!’
Again, year after year we see teams that appear to be backed into a corner and, lo and behold, they find away to get the flexibility they need. That said, the opposite can also be true.