Puljujvari and Yamamoto r legit being out produced in terms of points by Josh Bailey…. **** ain’t alright in Edmonton.

Then who did? Calgary? Because they were handled by the Oilers.

I thought the blues were the best team to face Colorado in the playoffs tbh.

Maybe it would be (even though those are pretty low level prospects), but now factor in the 5.5m cap dump and the 1.5m in retention.

You don't "win now" by making terrible trades though. Chychrun is good but he's another offensive defenseman, not something Edmonton really needs. The other guys are just meh, they are moving the needle at all. So you wasted the future for a slight improvement in Cup chance now, it's just dumb asset management.

Holland built a team in Detroit that was a contender for 10 years or more, and that's what he's doing in Edmonton too. He won't trade a bunch of high end future assets for a very tiny improvement in today's roster, because it's bad business.

Here's how each of Colorado's opponents fared against the eventual Cup Champions during the Stanley Cup Playoffs last spring. All numbers are 5v5 play.

CF/60
NAS: 51.55
STL: 43.64
EDM: 62.13
TBL: 49.77

SF/60
NAS: 29.24
STL: 24.50
EDM: 32.01
TBL: 23.39

GF/60
NAS: 1.81
STL: 2.30
EDM: 3.45
TBL: 2.60

xGF/60
NAS: 2.04
STL: 1.82
EDM: 2.72
TBL: 1.74

SCF/60
NAS: 21.71
STL: 18.37
EDM: 29.18
TBL: 23.79

HDCF/60
NAS: 9.95
STL: 6.89
EDM: 15.06
TBL: 8.99

The analytics community really didn’t like St. Louis. Which makes sense this year lol.