The St. Louis Blues offer sheeted two Edmonton Oilers players successfully, and let me tell you, Doug Armstrong showed up with the quote of the off-season. #EdmontonOilers #Oilers #StLouisBlues #NHL #Blues
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Man, oilers management is a shitshow 😂
Trust the process, the Oil have a plan, watch and learn 😊
Chill is overrated (if you have the money and opportunity to do this). I don't blame the kids for taking a payday (though I think Holloway may have been pressured by his agent, not positive just subtle things in his speech). Great vid as always. Take care all.
first bourgault…then vinny…then hollo…then broberg. If I'm Raphael Lavoie I'd be lookin for the exit to another team.
It’s a real drag to lose those two. But I would take the money if I was in that position.
What people don't realize is the blues are in trouble cap wise after this and will get worse next year when it comes to there prospect neighbors
One would think that an NHL GM would have a better way of expressing himself than that. He may be wearing that quote for a long long time. LOL LOL
His best quote is " You have to take the knife, jam it into their eye, and kill them." Talking about lack of playoff success
What comes around goes around. It might take a decade lol
There is a reason he's been chosen as Team Canada's GM for 2026. He's good at what he does. As a St. Louis fan you can be mad about certain things he's done (saddled us with some expensive contracts for an aging D-core, for example), but overall he is very, very good.
To answer your questions, yes, the Blues did target the Oilers in that offer sheets to players in this situation is perfectly legit and as the GM of the Blues Armies job is to make sure the team gets better than last year. Second, no they were not "offside" with a legal offer sheet to two players that can improve a Blues team that has missed the playoffs for 2 straight seasons. Third and fourth stop playing the victim here. If the Oilers did not pay McDavid so much they would have more money to keep these two. Looks more like the Oilers were willing to move on from both. And from what I have read on multiple videos about this, only the Oilers fans are whining about it. Other fans think this is a good thing or if its a Oiler hater out there, they think its funny. The Oilers but themselves in CAP HELL. No one did that to them. Teams change year over year. You don't get to keep the band together forever. We lost our team captain Pietrangelo the season after we won the cup. It hurt the team. But teams change. As others have pointed out he has been GM of the Canadian team multiple times. He knows his job well. Yes, he has made a few missteps but he has been very good at keeping the Blues competitive most seasons.
As the Blues GM Armstrong's job is to make his team better, and he did his job…
Nefarious??? 🤣
Well, thank goodness cope isn't flammable! Of course, even if it was, this flash flood of salty tears would wipe out the danger. 🤣
did you watch Armys whole interview? he and Bowman were in contact all week. after the trades, Bowman told Army, we have the cap space now, so we can match- but if youll sweeten the deal, we wont match. that sweetener was an extra prospect and another pick. btw, people thought Army targeted Bowman, but from afar, it looks as though Bowman handled it masterfully. he made deals to put the Oil in a position to choose to match or not. and id argue they are better off now than before the sheets. we may have forced your hand, but the Oil came out WAY ahead on the Cecci deal. you got a better defender at 1/3 the cap hit and only had to give a 3rd.
I would hope the Oilers are quick to sign Bouchard to an extension before his contract expires next year, but I don't know how they are going to do it.
Fans have no competition like this in their normal lives. This is competition at the highest level, no GM has room for chill
Love Army!!! My GM! He's teaching Steen well😊
No freken mercy . Being a pretend to be a ‘nice’ is stupid Canadian ideas
His mother probably has a peg leg
GO BLUES GO!
TOO MUCH INFO and hes a liar he wouldnt have done it to holland, he just doesnt have the balls to admit it, and i cant wait till they get in cap trouble and the oilers can do it back to them
I think it's more an answer to the implied accusation that these offer sheets were somehow 'personal' because of the GMs involved, or were meant more to throw a monkey wrench into Edmonton's finances than to improve the Blues. But look at these two players and then at the Blues franchise depth, and you'll see that Broberg and Holloway fit in perfectly with the stable of young players the Blues have in, or on the cusp of starting in, the NHL.
They now have 12 former 1st round draft picks aged 25 or younger that will be trying to make the team over the next 4 years or so (in addition to a few other young players who are also projecting to be regular NHLers). They're all individually gambles, of course, but with the cap space to spare and some older veterans likely to move out over that time frame as well, a shrewd GM will make this move every time.
I think Bowman and his team did a nice job coming out of this still fairly well off, especially given that Edmonton's cup window is NOW, while the Blues will still be retooling for a few more seasons before emerging as a potential cup threat. Both teams may be better poised for their respective goals.
22 comments
Man, oilers management is a shitshow 😂
Trust the process, the Oil have a plan, watch and learn 😊
Chill is overrated (if you have the money and opportunity to do this). I don't blame the kids for taking a payday (though I think Holloway may have been pressured by his agent, not positive just subtle things in his speech). Great vid as always. Take care all.
first bourgault…then vinny…then hollo…then broberg. If I'm Raphael Lavoie I'd be lookin for the exit to another team.
It’s a real drag to lose those two. But I would take the money if I was in that position.
What people don't realize is the blues are in trouble cap wise after this and will get worse next year when it comes to there prospect neighbors
One would think that an NHL GM would have a better way of expressing himself than that. He may be wearing that quote for a long long time. LOL LOL
His best quote is " You have to take the knife, jam it into their eye, and kill them." Talking about lack of playoff success
What comes around goes around. It might take a decade lol
There is a reason he's been chosen as Team Canada's GM for 2026. He's good at what he does. As a St. Louis fan you can be mad about certain things he's done (saddled us with some expensive contracts for an aging D-core, for example), but overall he is very, very good.
To answer your questions, yes, the Blues did target the Oilers in that offer sheets to players in this situation is perfectly legit and as the GM of the Blues Armies job is to make sure the team gets better than last year. Second, no they were not "offside" with a legal offer sheet to two players that can improve a Blues team that has missed the playoffs for 2 straight seasons. Third and fourth stop playing the victim here. If the Oilers did not pay McDavid so much they would have more money to keep these two. Looks more like the Oilers were willing to move on from both. And from what I have read on multiple videos about this, only the Oilers fans are whining about it. Other fans think this is a good thing or if its a Oiler hater out there, they think its funny. The Oilers but themselves in CAP HELL. No one did that to them. Teams change year over year. You don't get to keep the band together forever. We lost our team captain Pietrangelo the season after we won the cup. It hurt the team. But teams change. As others have pointed out he has been GM of the Canadian team multiple times. He knows his job well. Yes, he has made a few missteps but he has been very good at keeping the Blues competitive most seasons.
As the Blues GM Armstrong's job is to make his team better, and he did his job…
Nefarious??? 🤣
Well, thank goodness cope isn't flammable! Of course, even if it was, this flash flood of salty tears would wipe out the danger. 🤣
did you watch Armys whole interview? he and Bowman were in contact all week. after the trades, Bowman told Army, we have the cap space now, so we can match- but if youll sweeten the deal, we wont match. that sweetener was an extra prospect and another pick.
btw, people thought Army targeted Bowman, but from afar, it looks as though Bowman handled it masterfully. he made deals to put the Oil in a position to choose to match or not. and id argue they are better off now than before the sheets. we may have forced your hand, but the Oil came out WAY ahead on the Cecci deal. you got a better defender at 1/3 the cap hit and only had to give a 3rd.
I would hope the Oilers are quick to sign Bouchard to an extension before his contract expires next year, but I don't know how they are going to do it.
Fans have no competition like this in their normal lives. This is competition at the highest level, no GM has room for chill
Love Army!!! My GM! He's teaching Steen well😊
No freken mercy . Being a pretend to be a ‘nice’ is stupid Canadian ideas
His mother probably has a peg leg
GO BLUES GO!
TOO MUCH INFO
and hes a liar
he wouldnt have done it to holland, he just doesnt have the balls to admit it, and i cant wait till they get in cap trouble and the oilers can do it back to them
I think it's more an answer to the implied accusation that these offer sheets were somehow 'personal' because of the GMs involved, or were meant more to throw a monkey wrench into Edmonton's finances than to improve the Blues. But look at these two players and then at the Blues franchise depth, and you'll see that Broberg and Holloway fit in perfectly with the stable of young players the Blues have in, or on the cusp of starting in, the NHL.
They now have 12 former 1st round draft picks aged 25 or younger that will be trying to make the team over the next 4 years or so (in addition to a few other young players who are also projecting to be regular NHLers). They're all individually gambles, of course, but with the cap space to spare and some older veterans likely to move out over that time frame as well, a shrewd GM will make this move every time.
I think Bowman and his team did a nice job coming out of this still fairly well off, especially given that Edmonton's cup window is NOW, while the Blues will still be retooling for a few more seasons before emerging as a potential cup threat. Both teams may be better poised for their respective goals.