Not sold on Schaefer, but certainly not writing him off either based on the development curve of those bigger power style forwards. Molendyk has the potential to quickly surpass his draft location, so yeah it's funny how fast things change.Funny how some of us were salivating over Broberg last year circa the Ekholm trade. He sounded soooo much better a year ago. Oilers fans wouldn't let him go. What happened?
We got Molendyk and Schaefer instead, which sure seems like a win.
Oilers are jammed on the Cap, though. Even if we did full retention on Barrie, it wouldn't work. And if you ask around here, the fans will all come at you with "take our Jack Campbell contract".
Only waiver exempt till next year. He's a player id be interested in for sure and i think a future LHD core with him, Chistyakov, and Molendyk is a solid start. The problem is going into next season with josi, mcd, lauzon, del gaizo, Stastney, and Broberg at lhd is quite a glut with only stastney not requiring waivers (assuming he doesnt get another 55 games in this season). Either way, probably doesnt work out unless we send them stastney/del gaizo
Fair enough, definitely does get dicier. I am very much in favor of trading Lauzon to clear some of that up - heck, I'd flip those two if Edmonton would/could. Having our top two LHDs in Josi and McD be as old as they are worries me, but I dont think it's realistic to move either of them.
Apparently the word is the Oilers want a player back which given their cap situation is pretty tough. Not necessarily advocating these but a 50% retained Lankinen would work and might be of interest to Edmonton. Sherwood or a 50% retained Trenin might be interesting to them as a cheap depth scorer which they are seriously lacking too.
The guy has struggled to get minutes in Edmonton's gong show of a blue line. If he was on waivers like Fagemo or Foudy, sure, but give up any actual asset for him? Heck no.
id rather trade Lankinen for Holloway
Honestly him being bad in Edmonton has me MORE interested. They can't develop anything short of a sure thing in McDrai.
At the very least it means he's well behind the development curve a defenseman his age should be at. And if he's that behind in development AND playing poorly AND whining about his playing time and asking for a trade (at 22?! Barrie, at his age and tenure in the game is a little more understandable), I just don't think it's worth the time and asset investment to try to bring that talent to fruition. Rather stick with Stastney and Del Gaizo, with Molendyk also in the wings over the next year or two.
Edmonton gave Nurse a massive contract and decided that Cody Ceci as their 1st pairing RHD was good nough. Their evaluation of defensive talent should be considered suspect but their acquisition of Ekholm made Broberg redundant which is why i figured he was going to be part of that trade
