Can we agree on Broberg

Bro-berg!

Broberg gets added to the long list of Oiler Draft pick busts.

24 third ? TB can develop him.

His growth and adv stats/metrics are just not what we expected.

Support this statement of yours. What stats are you basing this on? What did you expect of him? Did you expect a 20 yr old Dman to produce a point/game in the AHL in '21-'22 (he produced 23 pts in 31 games)? Did you expect a 21 yr old Dman to take/hold a top-4 spot in his rookie year alongside either Barrie or Bouchard last year (prior to Ekholm's acquisition)? There are valid points of concern to raise, but the one's I'm familiar with don't paint such a doom-and-gloom picture as you seem to see.

I take issue with assertions like this one because they're so deeply embedded in the instant gratification mindset. If a player isn't a top-4 Dman in his rookie year, he's a valueless bust that needs to be moved on from ASAP. Just because we spent a decade drafting at the top of the draft doesn't mean that every player follows the development curve of the elite players. Plenty of good-to-great NHLers develop incrementally by making consistent year-over-year progress which, I'll point out, is exactly what Broberg has done. As of now, he appears to be perfectly on track to emerge as at least a strong bottom pairing Dman this year (a Broberg-Kulak 3rd pairing) and continue improving as he has done up till now. If the team can lock him up at a cheap rate with some term (1.5 to 2.25mil for as long they can get him), he'd be set up to emerge as a top-4 Dman on exactly the kind of value contract the team needs in order to optimise their competitive window.

No. The author of this AGM isn't an Oilers fan and seems to have a very warped sense of player development and value. Even if Broberg were to never become more than a bottom pairing Dman, a young bottom pairing Dman with his combination of size and skating is worth more than a 3rd from a contender.