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Ernie said:
I don't think anyone doubts he has good offensive skills. But we've seen plenty of one dimensional offensive defencemen (Klingberg etc) who have been exposed when they aren't in a cushy situation. I'm just happy he has arbitration rights next summer and the Oilers are going to have to overpay him like they did Nurse.
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Klingberg's decline was largely due to injuries. He's currently been out for over a year while actively trying to rehab and come back. In his last healthy season he was one of the best overall defencemen in the league, an excellent penalty killer, and elite at suppressing shot attempts.
 
krutovsdonut said:
it is still shady. we would not get away with it.
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With Goodrow, since nothing was exchanged between SJ and NYR, it can't be considered shady. Cut throat, yes, but not shady.
It is shady if something else is exchanged between the 2 clubs.
 
Drury is a f***ing joke, leaking to media that you want Tkachuk will just piss off Ottawa and won't get you anything. Did the same thing with us with JT. f***ing idiot.
 
Nick Lang said:
Yup. People love to sh!t on other teams players instead of looking at the reality. To what purpose that serves I don't know. Bouchard is a unique player with gifted great vision and offensive awareness, plus a great shot and knowledge of when to use it. His defence is suspect but he makes up for a lot of it by being on the offence most of the time. Definitely a player to be reckoned with.
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I think Ekholm is making him look at lot better defensively than he actually is.
 
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Ernie said:
So it happened 19 years ago and now Drury has done it twice.

Maybe it'll work out in the short term for him but no agent will allow their player to sign anything but a full NMC with the team as long as he is GM there.
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I agree completely, FWIW. Drury may be approaching this in a cutthroat way, but it could have some ripple effects to other players and their agents.
 
bandwagonesque said:
Klingberg's decline was largely due to injuries. He's currently been out for over a year while actively trying to rehab and come back. In his last healthy season he was one of the best overall defencemen in the league, an excellent penalty killer, and elite at suppressing shot attempts.
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For sure the injury issue impacted his career and prior to the decline he was a good top pair defender who had a top 20 shot attempt differential (+553) over ~ 300 games in his top years before the decline began. for perspective, Bouchard in his last 270 GP is +1410. Everyone and their dog knows McDavid has had a massive positive impact on those numbers, but still, he's a non trivial piece of the puzzle for them and i sure hope he digs his heels in this summer end gets paid. Bouchard actually has quite good PK numbers, but isn't used there for the same reason Hughes isn't. I get that he's an oiler and we all want him to suck, but (sadly) he doesn't.
 
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Too bad Myers has that NMC. He's gotta be worth a mid round 1st at this point.
 
vaakanainen is pretty good i think (though it's hard to tell because he barely plays). surprised the rangers got a useful player for trouba
 
So now the Rangers are making a run at Brady T...according to "brooksy". If Tkachuk is available, what should we be putting on the table?
 
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