Quoting: coga16
what UFA wants to sign up to join the OIlers when McDavid is on borrowed time unless they can compete next year. You dont fix and build teams in Free Agency, you add a complementary pieces, Oilers are a long way a way from adding those pieces to win.
Holland screwed up by refusing to use assets to get rid of their problems like Lucic, Kassian, Russell...and buy out Sekera should have been the last thing to do vs getting rid of those 3 scrubbos. Oilers roster is a compelte mess and they are going to have to blow it up to build, not add middle 6 wingers in Free Agency.
When they were intereviewing for the job, candidates were telling them that it would take 2 years to fix this roster and they refused to believe that so they hired a guy who was naive enough to believe this roster was good enough
Sorry this makes no sense, they shouldn't be adding complimentary pieces in free agency cause they're too far from that but they should waste assets to move Kassian and Russell to create cap space, (those two only have one and two seasons left) so what are they supposed to do with the cap space created from trading those two if not sign guys in free agency?
They don't have many trade chips from the lineup that they can afford to move and their prospect pool is not bad but can't be emptying that out either.
They can't blown it up when they have the best player in the league but wasting assets to move Kassian and Russell isn't wise, just let there contracts expire.
I agree the Sekera buyout was dumb though, if he could stay healthy he's pretty decent and to buy him out now when he's finally past his injuries was just dumb and to top it all off using that cap space to sign some mediocre to average players was even dumber.