06-26-2024, 11:05 AM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
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Ken Holland leaving the Oilers for the Blackhawks
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06-26-2024, 11:07 AM
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#2
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Turner Valley
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I wouldn't want to be taking on the next few years of cap jail, along with the potential to be the GM that lost McDavid and Draisaitl if they can't be re-signed. Probably a good move on Holland's part.
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06-26-2024, 11:08 AM
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#3
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Flames Town
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Wasn't he retiring?
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06-26-2024, 11:08 AM
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#4
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta
I wouldn't want to be taking on the next few years of cap jail, along with the potential to be the GM that lost McDavid and Draisaitl if they can't be re-signed. Probably a good move on Holland's part.
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And he gets Bedard on his ELC.
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06-26-2024, 11:09 AM
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#5
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Oilers don't really need a GM when they have McDavid calling the shots.
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06-26-2024, 11:10 AM
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#6
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All I can get
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Kevin Lowe is rested, tanned and ready...
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06-26-2024, 11:10 AM
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Loves Teh Chat!
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Wasn't he already getting pushed out anyways?
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06-26-2024, 11:12 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: still in edmonton
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I suspect he's going to be an advisor Davidson and not THE guy
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06-26-2024, 11:14 AM
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Franchise Player
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Ken Holland leaving another team in cap hell on his way out.
Hilarious.
Most overrated GM in NHL history.
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06-26-2024, 11:21 AM
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#10
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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some of these GMs are hilarious. Push the chips in, put their teams in cap hell, fail and then go "my work here is done". And another franchise just happily takes them on.
Absolutely mind-boggling.
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06-26-2024, 11:22 AM
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#11
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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LOL at "beginning of a new dynasty". The NHL just can't get enough of the old guard. I wonder what person from McDavid's circle will be hired as Oilers GM?
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06-26-2024, 11:22 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Red Mile
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Damn this is actually an Edmonton W
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06-26-2024, 11:24 AM
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#13
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Baaarrden
Damn this is actually an Edmonton W
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Meh. Every GM they've gotten, some CPers think "oh no they have someone competent now", and it's always the same. I remember when they hired ChiaPete. People were convinced they were going to turn a corner.
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06-26-2024, 11:26 AM
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#14
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My face is a bum!
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McDavid's old agent is finally ready to be put in a position to continue to do whatever his former client tells him. Make it so.
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06-26-2024, 11:33 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Calgary
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Congratulations to the Holland family for leaving Edmonton
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06-26-2024, 11:36 AM
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#16
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Bay Area
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Oilers operations remain a mess of nepotism and has-beens. Still have Keith Gretzky (the other gretzky, asst GM), Paul Coffey (special advisor to owner, middle finger giver), Brad Holland (asst GM and son of boss who just left), and Bob Nicholson (yeesh)
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06-26-2024, 11:38 AM
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Scoring Winger
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Ken Holland's favorite thing in the world (at least since Dan Cleary retired) is bad defensemen on worse contracts. The Oilers don't have the assets to trade for any of those.
But Chicago sure does.
(he did accidentally get a good defenseman when he traded for Ekholm, but you know. Stopped clocks and all that.)
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06-26-2024, 11:40 AM
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#18
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Franchise Player
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Lol McDavid is too old for him now, on to Bedard
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06-26-2024, 11:44 AM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
Meh. Every GM they've gotten, some CPers think "oh no they have someone competent now", and it's always the same. I remember when they hired ChiaPete. People were convinced they were going to turn a corner.
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And in fairness, they did!
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06-26-2024, 11:45 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ba'alzamon
Ken Holland's favorite thing in the world (at least since Dan Cleary retired) is bad defensemen on worse contracts. The Oilers don't have the assets to trade for any of those.
But Chicago sure does.
(he did accidentally get a good defenseman when he traded for Ekholm, but you know. Stopped clocks and all that.)
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Why in the world would they need to trade for one?
Holland had a home grown bad defenseman on a worse contract in Nurse.
It's the one thing they actually managed to develop internally, aside from #1 draft picks.
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