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Originally Posted by GioforPM
That's true that those guys were signed earlier. I recall they could afford (barely) to match, partly because they'd traded Ceci and cut Foegele and Macloed loose.
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The Ceci trade made it seem like they cleared space to match, instead they got Ty "Norris" Emberson the sneaky good trade.
The Oilers summer was hilarious to look back on.
They had no GM so the president went on a free agent spending spree on worse players. Viktor Arvidsson and Jeff Skinner. They traded one of their better young players in McLeod for a prized prospect Savoie.
After that we got told it was the summer of Jeff Jackson and he should be GM, but they still brought in a despicable human Stan Bowman because he had to go away and get therapy to learn how not to hide sexual abuse.
Fans and media in Edmonton told us how the historic PK was not because of the players they lost.
They finished 16th in PK.
I was wrong on Holloway, but he probably doesn't get the same results here. Broberg had asked for a trade prior to getting in the lineup and never rescinded his request.
Young fast emerging players out. Old slow injured players in.