Details emerge about Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg's contract requests
Both Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg who played most recently with the Edmonton Oilers were given offer sheets by the Doug Armstrong & St. Louis Blues.
Recently the St. Louis Blues took a gamble and signed both defencemen Philip Broberg & left winger Dylan Holloway to offer sheets and while offer sheets are scarce, signing two players from the same team to offer sheets is even rarer. However, hockey insider Elliotte Friedman has tried to shed some light on what both players were asking for in terms of salary and term before they both signed offer sheets.
While discussing the situation on the 32 Thoughts podcast Friedman revealed that Broberg was asking for a salary in the range of $1.8 million. The twenty-three-year-old defenceman ultimately decided to sign an offer sheet for $4.58 million. Left Winger Dylan Holloway who was also offer sheeted by the Blues was believed to have been looking for a 1-2-year contract in the $1.2 million range before signing his offer sheet for $2.29 million.
It was pointed out that the Oilers did their best to try and sign both players during the regular season, but the thought is that Broberg was going to «punt» any contract discussion into the summer.
While the situation appears to be a bit messy for the Oilers in the sense that they have two very good young players who are essentially attempting to be poached by the Blues the fact that they've played less than a combined 200 games, St. Louis is betting on what they both can do for them in the future which is essentially how contracts are discussed these days.
Also, as an interesting development, that has been spoken about numerous times, the Oilers spoke to the Blues at the deadline about acquiring Pavel Buchnevich but the asking price was both Broberg and Holloway. Is this a case of one organization trying to stick it to another for any prior transgressions? Possibly. But it's more likely a case of Doug Armstrong doing what he can to make his organization better.
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Do you believe that Philip Broberg & Dylan Holloway are worth what the St. Louis Blues are offering them? | ||
| Yes. Teams need to pay for production later | 122 | 35.4 % |
| No. Too early in their careers to tell | 223 | 64.6 % |
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