Simply shaking up the roster at request of Hitch or whoever. He knows he's on the way out, Lowe has been making his major decisions for him since the offseason.
Also, potentially an angle where he's doing favours like this for some potential suitors for his services (say as an AGM). Again, unprofessional, but my guess is the executive and him on the Oilers are pretty toxic right now, so what does he care about salary the Oilers are taking on, or draft picks?
From Chicago’s perspective, they have dumped a Manning’s $2.25m cap hit for next year.
The cost wastaking on Caggulia $1.5m for next year. Since he could likely be traded for say, nothing,they basically riddled themselves of what was considered by them as a sunk cost.
And Caggulia may just be a useful player, but it’s not material to this being a huge win for the.
Hey Guys, just wanted to add to the ATL with fans outside of the Oilers and later reactions from Greaser fans:
Around the League Report... Part Two
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Part Two
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Anybody But Chia
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I am so, so confused
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Horrible trade Manning is the last guy you want on your team! Chia is getting desperate. Caggs wasn't all bad at least. Fire Chia before he destroys the team even more!
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I suggest to everyone to write the team for this year.
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My favourite is the unending cheerleading the media in Edmonton do to defend all things Chia.
No one has enough self respect to call this ****ty team out.
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Manning will surpass Lucic as the worst player on the team. Not watching or caring about this team anymore with Chia in charge.
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Is this the darkest timeline?
How ****ing stupid is our GM?
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What a joke, i already checked out for this season
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I wish Chia had checked out for the season too.
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Oiler lost their 5th leading goal scorer on the team for an overpaid #7 in a desperate move
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If I am McDavid, this trade is the one the makes me demand a trade.
Utterly ridiculous..
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I imagine mcdavid giving permission to chia to make this move like my wife giving me permission to go drink with the boys on her birthday.
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Why trade him for Manning? Why do we consistently do other teams favors?
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Holy ****. I. What. What is this? This... This is even dumber than I thought Chiarelli would manage. I don't even. He keeps finding creative new ways to make awful trades are you ****ing kidding me?!?!
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Watch Cagguila turn into a great offensive player now.
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Today is truly some mind boggling stuff. Picked up two d-men who aren't good enough to play on two teams worse than us.
Just bewildering.
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Why chiarelli? Why?
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Most trades usually leave me rather neutral. They don't really offend me or they make me curious. This? This actually makes me mad. I don't see a good side to this trade. There is no bonus and leaving us all with malus. This is Chia taking a good long whizz in Oiler flakes and calling it a day.
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Sens are better than this garbage at this point
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Breaking Mcdavid's collarbone aside...
Manning just ****ing sucks at hockey. And another year on his contract afterthis? Did chiarelli learn nothing from the Spooner deal holy ****
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This is way worse than the Spooner deal. It also means that at some point this year they probably have to give an asset away to shed cap. The trade makes 0 sense.
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Has our dip**** GM commented on the trades?
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Terrible.
Only NHL caliber player in this trade is Drake.
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so a 3rd, Caggiula, a 6th, Garrison for nothing
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This trade makes absolutely zero sense. It doesn’t address a need. It doesn’t have any purpose.
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Where are all the clowns from the “Chia appreciation” thread now??? They applaud the guy when he manages to walk into a press conference room wearing pants, but silent on this one. That’s how bad this Manning trade is.
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**** you Chia. Can't even script this bizarre move.
Caggiula was playing well before injury/illness. Feisty little bugger who could play up and down the lineup.
And we trade him for Brandon ****ing Manning? Lol. McDavid barely displays any emotion on the ice and he clearly hates this scrub.
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This organization is a mess, it's absolutely pathetic. They know no shame. Chia might not be back next year but MacT and Lowe will still be there selling their magic bull**** beans to the fanbase, completely unaware of how utterly embarrassing their track record is. I can see it already "Are you telling me you're getting impatient?" "This is part of the cyclical nature of the business."
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Just when I think the Oilers hit rock bottom they surprise me with a major breakthrough.....and find a deeper level of rock bottom...and down a new abyss we go.
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IS chia about to be promoted to league exec or something?
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Brandon Manning? Hahahahahahahahahaha
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You know that guy who traded a paper clip for a slightly more valuable object, and repeated the process with the newly acquired slightly more valuable object, until he was able to trade his newest object for a house?
Peter Chiarelli is doing that backwards.
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Chia gifted McD, cap space, along with a bunch of assets to work with and he still manages to **** everything up
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Fleecing Peter Chiarelli should have an asterisk though. That’s like stealing candy from a sleeping baby.
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This trade screams sabotoge. It's beyond incompetence. It's an act of self-destruction, even Oilers media guy Ryan Rishaug is willing to point it out.
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GET CHIA AWAY FROM THE ****ING PHONE JESUS
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This is disgusting.
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Hahaha hahaha hahahahajaha
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Ewww
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Bwahahahahahahahaga
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I guess the Oilers are going to have to finally get over their Brandon Manning Complex
May as well trade for Kesler too so that he can dry hump McDavid in practice while Manning tries to take out his other collar bone.
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Lmfao you can have manning for free
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Hey oilers .. u want Derek Pouliot and Del zotto too?
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Vintage Chia.
1. Have best active hockey player.
2. Some bottom pairing defenseman tries to make a name for himself by intentionally injuring best active hockey player.
3. Trade for bottom pairing defenseman so him and best active hockey player can be teammates.
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If you asked me yesterday to name 1 player that I was absolutely 100% sure the Oilers would not consider bringing in at any point I probably would have said Brandon Manning.
Chiarelli is just ****ing unreal like my god.
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SOUNDS LIKE ITS ACTUALLY HAPPENING! lololololol
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This can't be true.. hahahaha
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I am speechless. The guy who tried to destroy McDavid?
I always thought Caggiula was decent too...
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HahahahahahahahahahajhahahahahahAhaha ha
Holy **** I'm dead....
I don't think Oil fans would be upset if McDavid requested a trade at this point tbh
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hahahahahahahahahaha..... I peed myself. Seriously.
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I'm a flyers fan. Manning is brutal and definitely shouldn't be in the NHL, definitely shouldn't make 2.25 mil, and definitely shouldn't be on McDavid's team. Sorry boys
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I'm enjoying the whole thing
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I love it
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As a Canucks fan, I'm enjoying the show.
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Why would a fan of any other team want another team to do better. Stay ****ty Oilers, it's fine with me and entertaining.
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Flames fans like myself are enjoying every minute of it.
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This is great news for other NHL teams!
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I can't believe they haven't fired Chia yet. Instead, he has the greenlight to make deals. This is very exciting!
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What in the unholy **** lol
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Did he feel threatened by the Ottawa tire fire???he wanted to show them up???
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lol!
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What purpose does this exactly serve....?
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Can someone nuke us here in Edmonton? put us out of our misery...
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If i proposed this trade, i would have gotten banned.
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****ing awful.
I get Caggiula isn’t anything special but holy ****, we don’t need more third pairing plugs.
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lol, keep them coming
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Lol Chia
Absolutely insane that anybody has ever tried to defend this idiot.
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A potato would be a better GM than Chia.
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What are the Oilers doing ?
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This happened right?
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Wow. Chicago stole them from EDM. LMFAO
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Love it
Thank You Chia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HAHAHAHA THEY TRADED FOR THE GUY WHO BROKE MCDAVID'S COLLARBONE.
I will forever love you Chiarelli as long as you're in Edmonton
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Manning is hot garbage Oil fans.
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As a Chicago fan, I have no idea why Edmonton makes this trade.
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Holy hell, every day is crushing to be an Oiler fan.
And the day is coming our only thing worth watching in McDavid will ask for a trade and I don’t blame him, can’t waste a Hall of Fame career here
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Today's work would get a GM in any other organization fired. Chia should be fired ASAP. Terrible for Oilers' fans that he probably won't be because nobody in management above him seem to have any idea how to run a team.
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Lol why the hell did Edmonton do this
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December fool's day?
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Caggulia could do absolutely nothing and this is a W for the hawks.
<3 you Chia
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how the **** is this guy a gm
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This screams angry employee just trying to smash a few things before he gets fired
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You guys want to give us back Larson for a 6th RD pick?
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LOL. This will be fun in the room
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I legitimately think Chia is going crazy.
The worst part is these moves are totally just to buy him more time, “you can’t fire me. I just shook up our defence. Let’s see how it pans out first”
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No take backs!
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Did Chiarelli really just trade for Manning? Lol
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Chiarelli must have had one hell of a Christmas break.
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This might be the funniest trade in sports history.
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I can't remember the last time I actually laughed at a trade but here we are
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I legit feel bad for Oilers fans..
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Manning was slated to be a perpetual scratch, as Dahlstrom has shown promise, Murphy is regaining health, and the D-corps was pretty set with Keith, Seabrook, Forsling, Gustaffson, Murphy, and Jokiharu, and Dahlstrom as #7/Rockford.
Cagguila will be more useful than the washed up Kunitz, who I wouldn't be surprised to see waived. Also, waiving Garrison wouldn't surprise me.
This is a okay move by my guys, as the Oil get our worst plus/minus guy who managed THAT in under 30 games!
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And, like a good fanboy, Spector is now talking up manning as a solid player with integrity. Fom his article you’d think they just got Shea Webber. Wonder if he was singing the same tune about manning when McDavid ‘s collarbone got broken? Probably one of the guys who uttered death threats to Manning...
Why would the Oilers even put McDavid in the position where he has to do this and reach out??? The Oilers and Spector are out doing damage control all night, when they had no reason to do so if the deal is not done.
McDavid has been a pushover, but eventually something will get him over the edge where he will demand a trade, why the heck would Chia even do this unless it's a plan to sabotage the team?
From above link: "Moments ago, the Blackhawks announced a trade involving defensemen Brandon Manning and Robin Norell. Congratulations Blackhawks’ fans, Brandon Manning is no longer our problem! Thank God!"
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Chiarelli is pushing hard to make the playoffs and probably has been told by Oilers leadership that if he doesn't, his future with the team is in jeopardy. I predict he moves their 1st round pick before the season is done. Maybe for Simmonds if the Flyers continue to slump.
About Norell, the guy had generated, absolutely, no buzz among 'Hawk fans. This is the first time I even heard the his name.
Final year of his entry-level deal and he has been loaned to a team in Sweden after two seasons in Rockford. That doesn't bode well for the guy having much of an NHL future.
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The Oilers and Spector are out doing damage control all night, when they had no reason to do so if the deal is not done.
