Around The League 40: As we barrel towards 40 teams

[Svechhammer]

Link?

Speculation: - The All Encompassing Edmonton Oilers Thread

Oilers are falling and hard. There are serious flaws on the team. This is a trade for the ages and should actually help Oilers compete and also financially help the Stars(merchandise sale + more eyes on the team and sponsors) and grow the game quite a bit in Texas. Here it comes: Stars get: -...

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[MinJaBen]

Sounds like there’s only one way to settle this.

Who wants to start the Trade Board thread?

edit: never mind. I ****ing did it

Good lord….why you like watching the world burn?

 

[Unsustainable]

Good lord….why you like watching the world burn?

Tarheel is secretly Ronnie Radke

 

[cptjeff]

McDavid gets moved in his last season before the draft for picks and prospects.

I genuinely don't think it can happen. Like Tavares, the Oilers will try to convince him to re-sign until the last, in part because fans will literally burn the place down unless he returns a star on a long term deal, which he won't.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Popping up on my News feed:

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

They probably should, their defense and goalies are soft.

 

[Svechhammer]

Damn, only 52 as well

 

[HisIceness]

Who wants the Edmonton job? It's available!

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Who wants the Edmonton job? It's available!

First things first: Convince the GM to trade McDavid for Aho and Slavin.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

McDavid's amazing, but you don't trade Slavin for McDavid, period. Aho+Necas+some prospects? Maybe, but that's a tough call. Slavin, though? The root of our consistent winning is league-best team defense. Slavin is the single largest factor behind this.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

McDavid's amazing, but you don't trade Slavin for McDavid, period. Aho+Necas+some prospects? Maybe, but that's a tough call. Slavin, though? The root of our consistent winning is league-best team defense. Slavin is the single largest factor behind this.

Our defense could survive without Slavin. It obviously wouldn’t be as good, but it wouldn’t completely tank it. But you’re talking about the ability to add a literal generational talent. The man had 153 points last year. You trade Slavin for McDavid every day and twice on Sundays.

 

[HisIceness]

I got a better idea, let's offer Edmonton Jordan "Wayne Gretzky" Martinook for McDavid. 1 for 1.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

“I’ve arrived” type goal from Bedard today. Strips the dman and goes short side high from an impossible angle.

 

[HisIceness]

“I’ve arrived” type goal from Bedard today. Strips the dman and goes short side high from an impossible angle.

I wasn't thrilled Chicago won his "rights" but he's out West, thank God.

 

[bleedgreen]

“I’ve arrived” type goal from Bedard today. Strips the dman and goes short side high from an impossible angle.

I like that he’s showing he can create goals like that himself. He looks sometimes like someone who’s dependent on getting passes so he can unleash the one truly elite skill we know he has.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Bedard is amazing today!

 

[bleedgreen]

Our defense could survive without Slavin. It obviously wouldn’t be as good, but it wouldn’t completely tank it. But you’re talking about the ability to add a literal generational talent. The man had 153 points last year. You trade Slavin for McDavid every day and twice on Sundays.

Playing the cap game I seriously don’t know that I’d trade them both for him though. I don’t know that you can win with a 12 million guy on the roster, though maybe it eases up as the cap goes up.

I’d give up Slavin for him for sure.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Still mad he went to Chicago

 

[Derailed75]

Our defense could survive without Slavin. It obviously wouldn’t be as good, but it wouldn’t completely tank it. But you’re talking about the ability to add a literal generational talent. The man had 153 points last year. You trade Slavin for McDavid every day and twice on Sundays.

Slavin has consistently lead a team deep into the playoffs more then McDavid.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Slavin has consistently lead a team deep into the playoffs more than McDavid.

Rod has led the team deep into the playoffs. Slavin is a player on that team. Just like McDavid would be.

 

[Derailed75]

Rod has led the team deep into the playoffs. Slavin is a player on that team. Just like McDavid would be.

There are far more top tier offensive players then there are shut down D guys. You can make the trade if you want but thats puts you squarely in the "trying to out score, your bad D" kinda team like the Leafs and Oilers.

I'll pass

 

[Blueline Bomber]

There are far more top tier offensive players then there are shut down D guys. You can make the trade if you want but thats puts you squarely in the "trying to out score, your bad D" kinda team like the Leafs and Oilers.

I'll pass

Again, even without Slavin, our D is better than most defenses in the league.

And this isn’t just a top tier offensive player. This is a literal generational talent. Take the offensive production of the best offensive performance of any of our players last year and double it. THAT’S what McDavid did.

I love Slavin as much as the next fan, but you can guarantee if Waddell had the chance to acquire McDavid at the cost of Slavin, it’d be done so fast your head would spin.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Again, even without Slavin, our D is better than most defenses in the league.

And this isn’t just a top tier offensive player. This is a literal generational talent. Take the offensive production of the best offensive performance of any of our players last year and double it. THAT’S what McDavid did.

I love Slavin as much as the next fan, but you can guarantee if Waddell had the chance to acquire McDavid at the cost of Slavin, it’d be done so fast your head would spin.

Our forwards backcheck. Every line. That's the single most important part of our defensive success, and the proof is how relatively well the team has performed when Slavin has been injured. Obviously a trade would be worth it, and just as obviously such a trade will never happen.

 

[cptjeff]

You don't win games by having the one best player. In a vacuum, McDavid is the better player than Slavin. Yet teams are not built in a vaccum, and relative to other players in the league, what Slavin does is rarer and a lot harder to find than offensive gee wiz. And he does what he does at a far cheaper price, allowing us to fill in the roster with multiple guys who can combine to equal McDavid output.

Some of y'all want to be Toronto or Edmonton with the way you would build a roster, I swear. Pick any two of our forwards and I'm happy to give them up for McDavid. But I am not touching the centerpiece of the league's best (ish) defense.

 

[SvechneJerk]

Pesce for William Nylander. Who says no?