Injury Report: Andrej Sekera out indefinitely (torn Achilles)
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KeithIsActuallyBad
You thrust your pelvis, huh!
If you need an idea how good this team was without Sekera go watch last years games. There’s no viable solution here and if their genius idea is to let Bouchard run wild then f*** you Oilers.
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joestevens29
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Sounds like a Peter issue.
Honestly though, how much cap space would we need to make? If Nurse gets a bridge of 3mil, do we really need that much room when/if he returns.
Knowing our luck if we did nothing because of potential cap space issues we'd end up seeing Sekera get injured in rehab and be out for the whole year
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BoldNewLettuce
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Why do people think the Oilers solution is to force Bouchard in?
Chia's comments about it make sense. As camp rolls they will take a look and see what to do.
Clearly the plan is.
A) Hope someone legit IMPRESSES at camp and we can fill internally
B) Sekera healing pretty well (Williams came back after like 2 months a few years back) and Chia feels fine using what we have for a few months
C) Same as above but he doesn't feel comfortable so he signs a guy late like we did with Russell
D) Sekera is out long long term and he sees what teams have a log jam at defense near the end of camp or in the first couple weeks and make a move.
He doesn't want to make a big knee jerk reaction, have Sekera heal fast and then have to move out a few mill in cap in a couple months just to make room for Sekera. He wants to wait till training camp to see how badly we need it.
As much as I hate the situation and Chia, his way of going about it makes sense logically
Chia's comments about it make sense. As camp rolls they will take a look and see what to do.
Clearly the plan is.
A) Hope someone legit IMPRESSES at camp and we can fill internally
B) Sekera healing pretty well (Williams came back after like 2 months a few years back) and Chia feels fine using what we have for a few months
C) Same as above but he doesn't feel comfortable so he signs a guy late like we did with Russell
D) Sekera is out long long term and he sees what teams have a log jam at defense near the end of camp or in the first couple weeks and make a move.
He doesn't want to make a big knee jerk reaction, have Sekera heal fast and then have to move out a few mill in cap in a couple months just to make room for Sekera. He wants to wait till training camp to see how badly we need it.
As much as I hate the situation and Chia, his way of going about it makes sense logically
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Agreed. Win a cup. Then fold and buy a basketball team.
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One must come to only a single conclusion after reading this thread.
It's Chia's fault Sekera tore his tendon.
Interesting.
It's Chia's fault Sekera tore his tendon.
Interesting.
The team's situation is Chia's fault, Sekera tearing his tendon is bad luck, but bad luck tends to follow teams that make dumb decisions.
He will be ultimately be the one who has to pay the piper.
joestevens29
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No, but he did build a below average defense that really couldn't handle anyone from the top 4 getting hurt.
Somebody getting hurt on the back end was probably going to happen at some point this year anyway. Unfortunately it happened now. Either way I don't see that PC has any backup plan for one of Klef, Nurse, Sekera or Larsson going down. Now it's become a reality.
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Wrong.
He inherited an even worse (much worse) d core from the incompetent ninkompoops he replaced.
Put the blame where it belongs.
joestevens29
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This is year 4 for PC. Enough with the previous GM's leaving him a bad core.
In 3 years TB was able to add Sergachev, Girardi and McDonagh
Pit went from Letang, Depres, Erhoff, Marin and Scuderi to Maata, Dumolin, Letang, Schultz, Oleksiak and Cole
joestevens29
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Lol.
I'd also add the assets that he used on Reinhart. Not using the KY,JP and Bouchard picks. Nothing against those three guys, but he did decide to keep the picks when there were clear holes in the roster.
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I agree with this. PC absolutely has to have success this season and by that I mean playoffs.
Make something of the Sekera situation...thats what good GM's do.
Well I think there's your mistake there. And no where has Chiarelli shown that he's good on the trade market, even most of his backers would concede that trading is not his strong and trading from a weak position is definitely not his forte.
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Weve been horrible for so long that fans think that we need to wait 5 years for draft and failed development to accurately judge a GM. Meamwhile the rest of the league is taking turns with their playoff runs.
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joestevens29
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It would be one thing if the pieces he did trade worked out. The problem is he took a strength and made it a weakness while not really fixing a lot.
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