[News] Oilers do not match offer sheets on Broberg & Holloway. Acquire 2028 3rd & Fischer

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

This wouldn't surprise me.

Kane likely sees the writing on the wall that he's a buyout candidate next season.

It will save them $2.7M next year, with only a penalty of $1.3M in 26/27.

I don't think Kane wants to sit on LTIR all season, only to then play in the playoffs, and then end up having to be a UFA who hadn't played at all the season before and in tough to get a contract.

The way he looked at the bench I think he'll have to stand on LTIR.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by dino7c

I love how Oiler fans thought these players were

awesome
terrible
awesome again
and now terrible and overpaid

Reminds me of someone I know on the internet; can't quite place it though

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by BeltlineFan

I'm sure it's all part of the Stan Bowplan? Plan Bowman?

oh man.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1825907633469141017

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Edmonton Olders

they have like 6 Mark Gioldanos on the team!

[Torture]

I don't understand why the Blues gave them a 2028 3rd. Just for lols? Any insight/thoughts?

[blankall]

It sounds like the Oilers were hard lowballing these guys, just to keep their team as good as it was last year. Now, the Oilers are likely worse than last year. Go Blues!

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by RedHot25

oh man.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1825907633469141017

I don't understand how homers like that get a job.

Someone else posted his analytics are off the charts, using 30 games.

Tory is also a 7th defenceman. That is what his career is, who can jump in and play games for you. He will now be tasked with playing in the top 4 most likely with Nurse as his partner.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

they have like 6 Mark Gioldanos on the team!

They do.

6 Mark Giordanos who play with the effectiveness of 40-year-old Mark Giordano.

So...not exactly Norris candidates.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Even since the 2013 lockout, the league again got younger as the revenue split dropped to 50-50, and the flat cap Covid era of 2021 to now has shed more off the average age. I don't think now is a time when you want your teams average age to be over 30.

Exactly! What I find interesting about that image as well, is you can almost see the overall season point totals slowly trending down for those teams as we get closer to today’s NHL.

Average age of cup winning team over the last 10 Stanley Cups is 27.73 years and the last five is 27.97. The oldest cup winner in the last decade is Vegas at 28.38. Being nearly two years older on average after just coming off a long playoff push isn’t exactly where you want to be. Doesn’t mean they can’t do it, but the stats tell us otherwise.

The one good stat they do have in their favor is there has been nine teams over the last five seasons to ice a hockey club 29 years and older, six of them made the playoffs. And as we know anything can happen once you get in. The bad news is four of them went out in the 1st round, one in the second, and only team to make the SCF was last year’s Oilers. Now they gotta run it back as an even older team with arguably a worse team on paper (especially on D).


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[Torture]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

I don't understand how homers like that get a job.

Someone else posted his analytics are off the charts, using 30 games.

Tory is also a 7th defenceman. That is what his career is, who can jump in and play games for you. He will now be tasked with playing in the top 4 most likely with Nurse as his partner.

Cause 'homers like that' is exactly the job description.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by blankall

It sounds like the Oilers were hard lowballing these guys, just to keep their team as good as it was last year. Now, the Oilers are likely worse than last year. Go Blues!

It does sound that way. Another team was confident enough in their abilities to offer them more.

The Oilers seem...okay, I know this sounds insane, but it seemed like they wanted these particular guys to stay crapville on the cheap so they could do other stupid things with their money.

That makes no sense. But look at the sequence of events.

They thought they could keep these guys for less than HALF of what other teams valued them at because.....because why? Because McDavid? Because Edmonton?

Those aren't reasons.

The Management team in Edmonton is straight up delusional.

And, don't get me wrong, I don't think Broberg and Holloway are irreplaceable superstars or anything, but Edmonton's cupboards are bare and they are out of other options.

[TheScorpion]

Lol

https://twitter.com/user/status/1825952723294105744

[Toonage]

Edmonton "media". Colossal idiots, the whole lot of them.

[Reggie Dunlop]

That's a house of cards.

[Redrum]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

They really don't have the assets to get even close to that. The Oilers future is now the time is now.

To be fair, their 1st rounders' value starting in a couple years will be through the roof.

[Cortez]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Lol

https://twitter.com/user/status/1825952723294105744

Amazing

[Aarongavey]

Bouchard -Ekholm
Nurse - Kulak
Stecher - Brown
Emberson

That is one hell of a backend.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Bouchard -Ekholm
Nurse - Kulak
Stecher - Brown
Emberson

That is one hell of a backend.

Not even Preseason Champions level.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Torture

Cause 'homers like that' is exactly the job description.

He is part of that Nation network or whatever that has Ryan Pike and you don't see him acting like that.

[dino7c]

the media spin is something else

Drai sign yet?