Assessing the Oilers’ 2025 off-season midway through the season
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Last summer was an interesting one for the Edmonton Oilers.Everyone remembers the beginning of the 2024 off-season, when the Oilers were able to re-sign Adam Henrique, Mattias Janmark, Corey Perry, and Connor Brown, while also adding Jeff Skinner and Viktor Arvidsson. It was praised in the moment, but it became detrimental to long-term success as both Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway departed after being given offer sheets. Skinner, Arvidsson, Janmark, and Henrique didn’t play to their expected standards either.There was some good that offseason, namely getting Leon Draisaitl locked up to an eight-year deal. The Oilers went on to make the Stanley Cup Finals for a second consecutive season, but once again lost to the Florida Panthers.There was some optimism heading into the 2025 offseason, even if the sting of losing in back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals remained. It was Stan Bowman’s first full summer as the team’s general manager, and it was a solid one, on paper, with some questionable moves. Once again, there was a lot of turnover heading into the new season. Some of the good moves include trading Viktor Arvidsson and Evander Kane for picks without needing to retain. They also traded Sam O’Reilly for Isaac Howard, while........
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