The St. Louis Blues weren’t the one staff that thought-about tendering a suggestion sheet to former Edmonton Oilers Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg.
Throughout the debut of Jeff Marek’s new hockey present, The Sheet, Marek mentioned there have been three groups ready to do supply sheets. St. Louis was the third candidate as a result of they wanted to make a commerce with Pittsburgh first. Two different groups have been to try to get the components collectively to make a suggestion.
“One of many groups was the Calgary Flames,” he says.
Each gamers signed two-year supply sheets with the St. Louis Blues over the summer time, but it surely seems these two might have gone to Edmonton’s provincial rival.
Marek admitted he nonetheless doesn’t know who the third staff was.
The Flames Actually Might Have Stung the Oilers
Marek revealed that the Calgary Flames nearly submitted a suggestion sheet for each Holloway and Broberg, which might have escalated the Battle of Alberta to new heights. He famous that Flames GM Craig Conroy might have added two younger NHL-caliber gamers, one thing he’s been open to doing for the reason that begin of the season. Each would have aligned together with his timeline for enhancing the staff and these would have been thought-about massive swings.
Ultimately, the supply sheet saga didn’t contain Calgary, and Holloway and Broberg signed with the Blues, the place they’ve already made an affect.
Holloway has set new profession highs, whereas Broberg has impressed earlier than a knee harm sidelined him. The Blues will face the Oilers this Saturday at Rogers Place, but it surely’s clear the rivalry would’ve been much more heated had they ended up in Calgary.
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