Quoting: Connor_McJesus_97
Look at Crosby and Malkin they are still producin. We can esxpect Leon and Connor to stay at a high level this decade. We have many years left. Edmonton won't win the cup this season theres no reason to do so. Hall is also inconsistent and it is not worth the risk. We have Holloway coming up soon he could play with McDavid. It's all about the patience here. Broberg and Bouchard are the next generation of defensers for this team and now we just gotta do the developing right and then we can harvest the sweet fruits and go for it. Draisaitl and McDavid will love the idea of staying here with the team we will have with this patience in 3-4 years. Also I never said he is guarranteed to become a top 2 d in the upcoming 5 years but you never know. im betting my money on him atleast I don't want an overrated veteran.
What guarantee is there that Edmonton doesn't win the Cup? The Leafs have shown they lack the lethal instinct to win a playoff series. The Capitals are old. The Avalanche's goaltending is held together by a thread. Tampa and Vegas aren't bulletproof. They've shown the capacity to lose games. I have no respect for such defeatist attitudes. Year over year we've seen teams get lucky or unlucky. Did we expect the 2006 Oilers to make it to the very last possible game of the season?
The point of this whole operation is to win the Stanley Cup. Year over year, the name of the game is to put yourself in the best position to win now. I've demonstrated that we can healthily assume that Broberg is not going to be a significant factor for this club over the next half decade. He's a
luxury. If Edmonton wants to be in the best position possible and as soon as possible, Hall is very much a more significant impact over that time period than Broberg would be. Hall's a more lethal assist generator than McDavid. Nothing about this man is being overrated by the move I made here: disposing of Neal's dead money and locking down a top talent is the kind of move that a winning team should make.
I had a recent epiphany that there's an attitude, almost exclusively amongst Oilers fans, that having more than three top-six forwards is a bad thing. Think back over the past 20 years: how many of those rosters featured 4 top-six forwards? The only two I can name are the 2006 Cinderella Oilers (Hemsky, Horcoff, Smyth, Stoll) and the 2015-16 Oilers when McDavid first entered the league. Beyond those two instances, our high water mark has been a trio (Eberle, Hall, RNH in the Decade of Darkness; Hemsky, Horcoff, Smyth back in the day). I had to go back to the end of the glory days to the 1990-1992 Oilers to find rosters with more than 3 top-six forwards. There's been this cancer of an attitude that we must have grinders and "hard-working, workboots and lunchpail men" to win in this league when the opposite has remained true. Players that fit those categories should be complimentary, not mainstays.
Alternatively, why is keeping Broberg so important when Samorukov or a player from free agency can be added?
Hall isn't overrated and adding him to this roster isn't a bad thing. Your player assessment just isn't good, and neither is your idea of roster construction.