Value of: A Legitimate Starting Goalie to Edmonton, Who's Available?

[VeteranPresence]

Most Preds fans would probably hand you Saros for "free"... if you'd take his forthcoming contract extension.

And he'd probably be really good for the next 3-5 years and be a great pickup for the Oilers. A la Ekholm.

Just... of course, Barry Trotz is not going to be on the same page, alas, so it's not very realistic. Unless he has some kind of come-to-Jesus epiphany.

Would take Saros in a heartbeat.

 

[BleedBlue14]

Could see now being a good time for the Blues to hand over the reigns to Hofer and move Binnington.

Binner hit the win milestone, Blues are struggling with skater consistency still after all of the additions. Hofer has close to 60 starts under his belt. Ellis has been really good in Springfield. Doesn't hurt that the whole world watched Binner steal the show for Canada in the championship.

Would ask for similar to what Markstrom got more or less. Don’t think cap coming back is too big of a deal. Could see hesitance to retain much though on the remaining 2 years after this year but I guess it wouldn’t be outlandish if they did, not sure if Army would entertain that though.

 

[JoeSakic13]

Vejmelka can actually play. He's not held up by a good team.

Yeah the best Dman on Utah is Sergachev who leads the d-corps in scoring while also leading the entire team for WORST +/- . I know that +/- isn’t the most valuable stat, but that’s a solid indication.

 

[Summer Rose]

How good is Vejmelka? His stats prior to this season have been unspectacular and last season Ingram was the #1 there.

He’s something like 18th in save percentage and 13th in GAA (I may have that backwards). He’s also doing it on a team that’s mediocre at best. Ingram has had injury trouble this season and his play when he’s “healthy” isn’t great compared to last season. I’m open to the idea of trading either one of them. Based on current play I prefer Vejmelka but we might have little choice in the matter if we can’t hammer out an extension for him that’s good for both sides. Edmonton should prefer him too.

For the sake of argument, let’s say we can’t get him to sign an extension and want to unload him. It would be closer to the trade deadline (if not deadline day itself). What would it take from Edmonton, for me, in that case? Honestly, not much if I’m being realistic. Goalies never go for much (we really bent Colorado over a barrel in sending them Kuemper). I don’t know enough about Edmonton’s situation to know what I’d ask for in terms of players, so a second round pick would be more than enough as far as I’m concerned. Might be talked into downgrading it to a third instead. Sending us Pickard along with it in order to make it make sense cap and roster space wise works too. Just my two cents.

All that said, if we get him signed to an extension, I don’t want to trade him. In that case I’d be fine with the same package for Ingram, but I doubt that’s a trade that the Oilers would want.

 

[UED]

I'm sure they could trade like, a 3rd or 2nd for Dostal or for Hofer who are probably fine starters, especially if they split with Skinner. I'm also sure everyone would struggle in Edmonton. They have Bouchard on one pair and Klingberg on another and they traded their only defensive forward for yet another PP specialist. What's the goalie supposed to do if not to suffer

 

[SmokeyDuck]

Is Gibson actually hurt or is Anaheim holding him out on purpose for trade possibly???

Coach seemed to think it wasnt serious and day to day.

I'm sure they could trade like, a 3rd or 2nd for Dostal or for Hofer who are probably fine starters, especially if they split with Skinner. I'm also sure everyone would struggle in Edmonton. They have Bouchard on one pair and Klingberg on another and they traded their only defensive forward for yet another PP specialist. What's the goalie supposed to do if not to suffer

Lol you aren't getting Dostal for a 3rd or a 2nd.

 

[Leafs87]

I think the Oilers need to go big on a legit starter. They need a true upgrade on Skinner to get over the hump.

 

[Ranksu]

 

[Burnt Biscuits]

What pieces is Edmonton making available for said starting goalie? That would be a start. Outside of a 2026 1st, there’s really not much for teams to work with minus some middling prospects.

Our 5 most valuable trade chips are in order:

1. Matt Savoie (dominant player in the AHL as a rookie)
2a. 2016 1st round pick
2b. Sam O'Reilly (based on past training camp a near lock for an NHL future, passed every test the coaching staff threw at him with flying colors, just lacked NHL level strength, question marks on his offensive ceiling)
4. Beau Akey (fits the style of new era d-men, mobile, good in transition, offensive catalyst)
5. STL 2015 2nd round pick

 

[MessierThanThou]

Honestly, Skinner and Pickard are so bad that you can bring in any league-average backup and they would probably look like another Roli in comparison. We're talking about two goalies who are 71st and 80th, respectively, in GSAx out of 93 goalies who have played a single game this season.

Adjust it to goalies who have played a minimum of 20 games and Skinner is 39th out of 49. Pickard is 43rd out of 49. None of the goalies below them are in playoff spots, and two of them are currently back in the minors. It's not wrong to suggest that Skinner and Pickard might be closer to AHL-caliber than most people realize.