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Goodness gracious Ekholm has been a machine with the Oilers so far. Incredible nerdies. My bull case on McCabe over ekholm was that he's way cheaper, with less term, and the gap between them maybe isn't that substantial? But it hasn't played out that way. Kyle landing the big fish would have been worth losing Raz for. Too bad. Credit to Holland. His best move in a decade maybe.
 
I think you made this point around the deadline, there were 3 obvious d-targets there (Chychrun, Ekholm, McCabe), and while it's easy to understand the value of McCabe's contract with salary retained, he was also clearly the worst of the three. Going to be interesting to see how this turns out.
 
Yeah I was hoping the gap would be a little tighter but it's still early. Hard to ever compare with a guy like Ekholm tho.
 
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Goodness gracious Ekholm has been a machine with the Oilers so far. Incredible nerdies. My bull case on McCabe over ekholm was that he's way cheaper, with less term, and the gap between them maybe isn't that substantial? But it hasn't played out that way. Kyle landing the big fish would have been worth losing Raz for. Too bad. Credit to Holland. His best move in a decade maybe.
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Ekholm has been a stud 22-23mpg dman for a good team his whole career.

McCabe a 19mpg guy for a bad team.
 
Yeah so if we're saying they couldn't land one of the big fish d because of the cap then maybe it would have been best to leave the d alone assuming this is all McCabe is. I always had the mindset of grab the big fish if you get a d, or don't bother (they were already loaded with 3/4/5 guys). McCabe just feels like a left handed Justin Holl so far. I had delusions that he would be better.
 
I think the Leafs have generally been shit since the deadline, so it's hard to evaluate any individual player in this inconsistent mess, and Keefe's bullshit 11-7 system. I like what I see from McCabe, personally. I don't think we needed him, and that the difference between him and Sandin may not be material on an overall basis, but I think he'll fit in well if the team can get its shit together. ROR is a very good add as 3C, since clearly we have shit going on after the Core 4. Acciari is a dependable guy in the bottom six. All good.

But no true LW added, and that hole is gaping.

And losing Engvall and Sandin for nothing hurts, while adding Schenn to spell Lilly is fucking killer.

Nothing we haven't said already a million times. The playoffs can't come soon enough so we can just fast forward to see what the result of all this shit is going to be.
 
Preston said:
Goodness gracious Ekholm has been a machine with the Oilers so far. Incredible nerdies. My bull case on McCabe over ekholm was that he's way cheaper, with less term, and the gap between them maybe isn't that substantial? But it hasn't played out that way. Kyle landing the big fish would have been worth losing Raz for. Too bad. Credit to Holland. His best move in a decade maybe.
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What pisses me off is we had great depth, and the only needed a D if it was a legit top pair guy as our depth was great, but top 4 is "Meh". We go and get depth D we really didn't need. And Sens get Chychrun, Oilers Ehk (And I also worried about his age, cap).
 
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Lots of sky is falling around here. Aside from not getting a better return for Sandin, I'm fine with what has been done. We have upgraded our Forwards with ROR and Acciari, have some speed depth (Lafferty). On Defense we are now very deep, with a Reilly replacement (Gus) and several more shut down types. This will let us get through the battle of attrition and injuries that are bound to come.

With Marner playing out of his mind and the teams new options and depth, I don't get all the gloom and doom.
 
We'll beat Tampa, but I don't think that means we are better. I'm thinking we'll 'Win a round", but am quite pissed at things right now. We didn't need to trade Sandin even with him wanting out. We also keep adding these bottom 6 players and giving them usage over our own players.
Other players will take note of Sandin right now and might also ask out if not used properly.
 
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