The embarrassing last decade of Ken Holland's career
Ken Holland today revealed he's not willing to move his 1st round pick or any of his top prospects. Well with the Oilers potentially wasting another year of Connor McDavid one Twitter user took a look at the last 10 years of Holland's executive career and it's really tough to look at.
2012
Signed 37-year-old Todd Bertuzzi to a 2 year, $4,000,000 deal. Bertuzzi only played 66 games total before retiring.
Signed Jordan Tootoo (3-years), Mikeal Samuelsson (2-years, 35+) and Carlo Colaiacovo (2-years). Samuelsson played only 30 more NHL games total, while Tootoo and Colaiacovo both had to be bought out.
2013
Two hilariously bad big splashes
Signed Stephen Weiss, 5 years, $24.5M, Weiss was bought out after 2 seasons and 11 goals total.
Signed Jonathan Ericsson 6 years, $25.5M, Ericsson finished his contract in the AHL.
2014
Signed goalie Jonas Gustavsson to a 1 year deal for $1.85M. The Monster only played 7 games total.
Signed Dan Cleary to a 35+ contract. $1.5M plus $1M in performance bonuses. Dan played 17 games, his last in the NHL.
Traded Patrick Eaves, Calle Jarnkork, and a 2nd for 21 games of 34-year-old David Legwand.
2015
Signed 35-year old Brad Richard for $4M. Richards plays his final 68 NHL games on this contract (28 big points)
Signed a declining Mike Green for 3-years and $18M. Signed Justin Abdelkader to 7-years, $29.75M. Since bought out by Yzerman
A one-way for Dan Cleary. AGAIN. 1 year, $950k. Played 35 AHL games, didn't touch the NHL
Traded the signing rights to Mattias Janmark plus a 2nd round pick (that turned into Roope Hintz) for the last 11 games of Erik Cole's NHL career.
2016
Darren Helm, 5 years, $19.25M Frans Nielson, 6 years, $31.5M (bought out by Yzerman)Danny DeKeyser, 6 years, $30M (yikes)
Moved back from the 16th draft spot (Chychrun) to 20th (Cholowski) to offload Datsyuk's contract.
2017
Signed Trevor Daley, 3-years, $9.5M. Managed 44 games in year 2 and 43 in year 3. All at replacement level or lower. Retired
2018
Tacked on 2 more years of Mike Green's decline at $5.275M per year. Hilariously, Green finishes that contract off with 2 games in Edmonton
Paid $3M for the last 64 games of Thomas Vanek's career
Sold some assets to start the rebuild of the roster he destroyed
2019
Leaves DET a parting gift:
A $5.1M contract for Jimmy Howard to play 27 more games for the franchise, his last in the NHL, .882 SV%
Comes to Edmonton and picks away at the fringes but still manages to overpay Chiasson and Khaira
2020
Signed Kassian to a 4-year, $12.8M extension
Bridged Nurse to set up the atrocious next contract
Signed Kyle Turris for 2 years and $1.65M
Traded a 4th for 2 games of Mike Green
Traded 2 2nds for 13 games of Anthanasiou
2021
Executes the final step of botching Nurse by extending him for 8 years, $74M
Signed Tyson Barrie for 3 years, $13.5M
Extended Koekkoek & Shore for 2-years each for some reason
Traded Jones and a pick for Duncan Keith at full cap hit
Traded Ethan Bear for Warren Foegele
No one show this to Connor McDavid.
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