2024/2025 Around the League

[John Mandalorian]

Deleted.

 

[Alienblood]

Roy may get fired:

Yzerman has to get fired, that's the 3rd embarassing loss in 4 days.

Yzerman won't get fired, it will be birdman

 

[Vaslof]

Wonder if the Jackets are happy now that they targeted Laine and got him injured.

 

[LOFIN]

The whole Laine saga is vastly blown out of proportion.

 

[Ceremony]

Ah, yes

 

[Metallo]

Ah, yes

Not sure if it is dumb or stupid.

 

[Balthazar]

Look at Bouchard giving up on the 2nd goal. Incredible

 

[dahrougem2]

Look at Bouchard giving up on the 2nd goal. Incredible

11M incoming. Oilers fans better pray they win it all this season because next season they'll have 52M tied up in McDavid, Draisaitl, Nurse, Bouchard, and Ekholm.

 

[sethro109]

Look at Bouchard giving up on the 2nd goal. Incredible

I can't believe he just gave up on the second goal.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

11M incoming. Oilers fans better pray they win it all this season because next season they'll have 52M tied up in McDavid, Draisaitl, Nurse, Bouchard, and Ekholm.

If they need some cap space, I’m willing to take on Ekholm

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

I can't believe he just gave up on the second goal.

Bouchard getting outmuscled by JTC is one of my favourite Bouchard moments

 

[AvsMakar08]

How did that happen. How do you give a guy 11M a year contract. Was he really good before this. Maybe offensively?

 

[sethro109]

How did that happen. How do you give a guy 11M a year contract. Was he really good before this. Maybe offensively?

He is... or at least was very dangerous on the PP.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

He is... or at least was very dangerous on the PP.

Dudes got a cannon shot and is good at using it. He plays so soft and disinterested when it’s not an offensive opportunity though

 

[dahrougem2]

If they need some cap space, I’m willing to take on Ekholm

We need cap space lol

How did that happen. How do you give a guy 11M a year contract. Was he really good before this. Maybe offensively?

Points pay. Since 21-22 he's 9th amongst all defensemen in points. Rasmus Dahlin is 8th and he makes 11M. Bouchard has the ability to ask for that and if the Oilers don't want to pay, some dumb team will.

 

[McMetal]

We need cap space lol

Points pay. Since 21-22 he's 9th amongst all defensemen in points. Rasmus Dahlin is 8th and he makes 11M. Bouchard has the ability to ask for that and if the Oilers don't want to pay, some dumb team will.

The best thing (as an Avs fan) about the Bouchard situation is that the Oilers are about to enter a repeat of where they were with Nurse before they signed him to that gross contract. Both the Oilers and Nurse knew that if they let him go to UFA they had absolutely nothing in the system to replace him, so everyone at the table knew that any threat to let him walk was an empty one. They were over a barrel and ended up having to pay whatever Nurse asked.

And now here they are again, where their defense is so paper thin that even letting an extremely overrated player leave would gut them. If they trade him, they won't get a better player back, and if they let him walk they have no internal options to replace his role. So they will end up paying Bouchard an obscene amount of money on an 8 year deal to do shit like that.

And better yet, they will then have to go turn around and beg McDavid to stay, despite it being very obvious to their captain and everyone else that the Oilers are not built to win a Cup with Nurse and Bouchard on those contracts.

 

[dahrougem2]

The best thing (as an Avs fan) about the Bouchard situation is that the Oilers are about to enter a repeat of where they were with Nurse before they signed him to that gross contract. Both the Oilers and Nurse knew that if they let him go to UFA they had absolutely nothing in the system to replace him, so everyone at the table knew that any threat to let him walk was an empty one. They were over a barrel and ended up having to pay whatever Nurse asked.

And now here they are again, where their defense is so paper thin that even letting an extremely overrated player leave would gut them. If they trade him, they won't get a better player back, and if they let him walk they have no internal options to replace his role. So they will end up paying Bouchard an obscene amount of money on an 8 year deal to do shit like that.

And better yet, they will then have to go turn around and beg McDavid to stay, despite it being very obvious to their captain and everyone else that the Oilers are not built to win a Cup with Nurse and Bouchard on those contracts.

Honestly they got by just fine with Tyson Barrie in the Bouchard role. Sometimes you gotta be ruthless and if I was Stan Bowman, I would ship Bouchard to the highest bidder next offseason and allocate that money elsewhere.

 

[Bender]

My boy Georgiev would have slashed the shit out of Bouchard for doing this to him.

Too bad he's gone, that would have been an awesome nickname!

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Too bad he's gone, that would have been an awesome nickname!

The karma chameleon strikes again.

 

[McMetal]

Honestly they got by just fine with Tyson Barrie in the Bouchard role. Sometimes you gotta be ruthless and if I was Stan Bowman, I would ship Bouchard to the highest bidder next offseason and allocate that money elsewhere.

So would I. The ideal scenario for Edmonton is to simultaneously acquire assets while making his next contract someone else's problem. However, I think we both know what's most likely to happen.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

Look at Bouchard giving up on the 2nd goal. Incredible

He's faster turning around and skating up the ice after the second goal (I assume to the bench?) than he is trying to get back to prevent it.

Every defender makes bad plays or misreads where the opposing forwards are. It happens to the best of them. Even Quinn Hughes. But how does one put more effort into turning around and skating off than trying to get back to stop a breakaway?