Around The NHL #8 - A Skate On The Lake

[cobra427]

Trade Draisaitl? Lol.

Only if they want a better deeper team that can win in the playoffs, otherwise they should keep him.

 

[rt]

Only if they want a better deeper team that can win in the playoffs, otherwise they should keep him.

 

[Jakey53]

So nobodies responsible?

The previous GM. Holland will have $$ this year to do some wheeling and dealing, same as our very own BA. Let's see who does a better job. BA as a $$ advantage, but Holland will be able to spend to the cap where I don't think we will.

 

[Jakey53]

It is Holland’s fault. The depth he added had been useless trash and it was obvious at the time he added. Oilers fans were smug and over confident about it but it was garbage depth.

The Oilers are in the playoffs, AND making extra money for their owner. Not all of the depth they added was good, but same holds true for the Coyotes. Like BA, Holland's hands were tied because of the previous management miscues.

 

[Jakey53]

Outside of trading Drai/McDavid, he had no way to improve, other than fill in some scraps and cross his fingers. Holland is suffering from previously bad GM decisions just like BA. The difference in Edmonton is Tip did it with mirrors outside of the top 2 players, hid the lack of depth, but in the playoffs, teams have more time and are better prepared, your weakness gets exposed. We had RT, he couldn't hide anything

Oilers will need to trade Drai to really improve as a team and add the depth they need. I am sure Holland doesn't want to do it but he might be forced to now. Oilers would have been blown out if not for Smitty

I doubt very much the Oilers trade Drai. He and McDavid are joined at the hip.

 

[Jamieh]

I doubt very much the Oilers trade Drai. He and McDavid are joined at the hip.

Not to mention a really really good contract. It seems people here think GM's just have a choice of any player they want in free agency when the reality is that the player has much more control.

 

[Jakey53]

Not to mention a really really good contract. It seems people here think GM's just have a choice of any player they want in free agency when the reality is that the player has much more control.

Exactly correct. You have 31 owners and GM's, most with brilliant hockey minds playing poker against each other.

 

[Mosby]

Seems to me if you have Tippett as coach you should have some Tippett style role players in the bottom six. Not Turris and Ennis.

 

[rt]

Seems to me if you have Tippett as coach you should have some Tippett style role players in the bottom six. Not Turris and Ennis.

Which is what every single human outside of Alberta could see clearly at the time.

 

[Jamieh]

Seems to me if you have Tippett as coach you should have some Tippett style role players in the bottom six. Not Turris and Ennis.

Not watching I assume as neither of those guys are playing. Ennis was a good signing, Turris not so much.

 

[Mosby]

Watching. Regular season still counts.

 

[Jamieh]

Watching. Regular season still counts.

Nobody plays that way all year, you need skill guys not grinders for the most part.

 

[Bonsai Tree]

edit

Thought better of it, ya did!

 

[RemoAZ]

The Jets are playing this perfectly. Paul Maurice is saving his job.

I barely follow anybody else outside of the Coyotes so I didn't know he needed to save his job. I would have though he was a genius watching this series.

 

[Mosby]

He has two years left but he has also been there eight years.

 

[RemoAZ]

It is Holland’s fault. The depth he added had been useless trash and it was obvious at the time he added. Oilers fans were smug and over confident about it but it was garbage depth.

You mean Turris didn't contribute under Tippett? Who woulda thunkit?

 

[rt]

You mean Turris didn't contribute under Tippett? Who woulda thunkit?

Holland.

 

[RemoAZ]

Holland.

Like I said before, he's either not a very good GM or he and Tippett aren't anywhere near to being on the same page.

 

[TheLegend]

Not watching I assume as neither of those guys are playing. Ennis was a good signing, Turris not so much.

Turris was revenge porn for Tippett.

 

[Jamieh]

Holland signed Smith , Barrie, Ennis, and Turris for a combined $7.9 million. He got Pulujarvi back from Europe. Got Kahun for under a million. And people think he's terrible???

 

[Jamieh]

Turris was revenge porn for Tippett.

I was never a Turris fan but holy fack has he fallen. He just can't play

 

[RemoAZ]

I just can't get past the fact that they signed the former 3rd overall pick that Tippett refused to play above the 4th line, when he even played, until Turris demanded a trade. Then like Strome he immediately becomes the #2 center on his next team. You can't tell me there's no friction between the two because of that. That marriage was doomed to fail. Exactly would you want when you're trying to get your team over the hump to being a cup contender.

 

[Bonsai Tree]

I just can't get past the fact that they signed the former 3rd overall pick that Tippett refused to play above the 4th line, when he even played, until Turris demanded a trade. Then like Strome he immediately becomes the #2 center on his next team. You can't tell me there's no friction between the two because of that. That marriage was doomed to fail. Exactly would you want when you're trying to get your team over the hump to being a cup contender.

I’m sure that the two of them talked it all out.

 

[TheLegend]

I was never a Turris fan but holy fack has he fallen. He just can't play

IIRC he got hurt bad a while back in Ottawa and wasn’t the same after.

 

[TheLegend]

Man…. did they put an extended force field around MAF or something?? He comes up and kisses an opposing team player’s butt and gets a GI call out of it.