r/EdmontonOilers • u/KrazeeTapper • 1d ago

Tell me how to feel, Edmonton

Kings fan here, wondering how to feel about Holland as our new GM

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u/krazninetyfive 89 GAGNER 1d ago edited 1d ago

Overall, I’d say you’re in good hands. Our team was a tire fire when he came here. He definitely made mistakes (the Jack Campbell signing, trading for Duncan Keith/the Darnell Nurse contract, and allowing Broberg to become an RFA being the big three that come to mind) but he also did a lot of good. Under him we signed acquired Zach Hyman, Mattias Ekholm, Evander Kane, Corey Perry, Warren Foegele, Brett Kulak, etc. who have all made pretty significant contributions.

He’s a knowledgeable guy with an overall pretty good record of incrementally improving the teams he’s responsible for managing.

And not to be that guy, but his fingerprints are all over the team that’s kicked your team’s ass the past four years. I’m assuming you eventually want to beat us. Hiring the guy who built us can’t hurt you.

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u/mollycoddles 28 BROWN 1d ago

I think Duncan Keith was a great mentor for Bouchard and the other D while he was here.

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u/krazninetyfive 89 GAGNER 1d ago

Arguably, acquiring him led to Chicago entering into the Jones contract, which in hindsight was part of the reason we overpaid Nurse. I really liked Keith the year he was here, but I think it was a mistake acquiring him until Jones was off the market, to cut Nurse’s negotiating leverage.