The Edmonton Oilers and Justin Schultz avoided arbitration, Wednesday, as the young rearguard signed a 1-year, 3.9 million dollar contract. But the ink had barely dried on the paper, when out came the knives.
Now, there’s no easy way to defend the season that Justin Schultz had in 2014-15. Even on nights when he started to look like the promising prospect we all expected that he would be, an errant pass would float through the neutral zone and BAM…the puck would inevitably end up behind Ben Scrivens. Some called it “Jultzing”, others called it much less flattering things, but fair to say we all wondered what on earth had happened to this kid?