Confirmed Trade: [EDM/NYR] Ryan Strome for Ryan Spooner ($900k retained)

[Bryanbryoil]

The correct play for the Oilers would've been to have traded Strome or walked away from his contract before this season. Neither of these guys are worth $3 million.

 

[TGWL]

I saw confirmed trade and got all excited.. WHY YOU BUMPING THIS!!!

The correct play for the Oilers would've been to have traded Strome or walked away from his contract before this season. Neither of these guys are worth $3 million.

I am quite happy with having Strome. It's probably different since we have the cap space, but he's been solid for us.

 

[Mr Tadakichi]

Saw EDM tag and got excited.

 

[sepHF]

always a nice surprise when both fan bases are happy with a deal

Strome was waaaay better for the Oil than Spooner. Spooners play has been very poor in Edmonton.

 

[Sempiternal]

Another Chia brain fart

 

[HawkeyTalkMan]

Another Chia brain fart

He Chiarted himself

 

[noice]

He’s on fire in tha AHL with his boys Kailer & BFF Caleb

 

[Esq]

I thought we had another Oleksiak-takeback situation going on here.

 

[BudBundy]

Nah. We’re fine with our Chiarelli re-tread playing his way down to the AHL while sucking up cap space. Fk you “Special Pete.”

 

[Frank Drebin]

Nah. We’re fine with our Chiarelli re-tread playing his way down to the AHL while sucking up cap space. Fk you “Special Pete.”

That's Harvard grad special pete to you

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

Hard to fathom that Spooner may not even be a top 3 bad contract in Edm.

 

[TGWL]

Hard to fathom that Spooner may not even be a top 3 bad contract in Edm.

I mean, not even close.
1) They didn't give him that contract.
2) Rangers retained 900k
3) Some of the cap is buried.

Still wasted cap space, nonetheless.

 

[cwede]

Hard to fathom that Spooner may not even be a top 3 bad contract in Edm.

i rarely make inflammatory statements here,
but i have no sympathy for EO and their Cap Hell

i blame EO for the cycle of aggressive over-payments, and top heavy Cap Hit rosters, which have made the hard Cap situation worse over the last ~10 years

between the Offer Sheets (Vanek, 2007, 7 years, $50 million, ... the first huge OS of the latest era)
and then the big-ticket 2d contracts (Eberle, Hall, RNH were among the first)
the Oilers led the charge to killing bridge contracts, and other trends which have made Cap era more challenging than need be, for both teams, and players ...

 

[BudBundy]

i rarely make inflammatory statements here,
but i have no sympathy for EO and their Cap Hell

i blame EO for the cycle of aggressive over-payments, and top heavy Cap Hit rosters, which have made the hard Cap situation worse over the last ~10 years

between the Offer Sheets (Vanek, 2007, 7 years, $50 million, ... the first huge OS of the latest era)
and then the big-ticket 2d contracts (Eberle, Hall, RNH were among the first)
the Oilers led the charge to killing bridge contracts, and other trends which have made Cap era more challenging than need be, for both teams, and players ...

1) For those of us who have been around a long time, it’s sounds pretty hypocritical for a Rangers fan to complain about a team handing out bad contracts given how the Rangers were one of the reasons why we have a cap in the first place. You’ve got a lot of overpay skeletons in your own closet. Your last Cup win had no less than 6 former Oilers, bought and paid for, as an example.

2) As angry as you may be with the clowns running the Oilers for causing collateral damage to the league, try being an Oilers fan watching management continually making shameful moves. We’ve been screaming from the rooftops for competent management for the last dozen + years. Oilers fans (aside from a few loudmouths that every fan base has) honestly deserve nothing but pity if not sympathy.

 

[Matt Rentfree]

1) For those of us who have been around a long time, it’s sounds pretty hypocritical for a Rangers fan to complain about a team handing out bad contracts given how the Rangers were one of the reasons why we have a cap in the first place. You’ve got a lot of overpay skeletons in your own closet. Your last Cup win had no less than 6 former Oilers, bought and paid for, as an example.

2) As angry as you may be with the clowns running the Oilers for causing collateral damage to the league, try being an Oilers fan watching management continually making shameful moves. We’ve been screaming from the rooftops for competent management for the last dozen + years. Oilers fans (aside from a few loudmouths that every fan base has) honestly deserve nothing but pity if not sympathy.

You're not wrong about the Rangers in general, but most of those players were aquired via trade, not free agency.

 

[cwede]

1) ... Your last Cup win had no less than 6 former Oilers ...

at least 7 - Mess, Lowe, Graves, Beuk, MacT, Tikk, Anderson,
technically 8, Mike Hudson had some pre'94 games w EO

i don't hold NYR blameless for their large, bad UFA deals, so few of which paid off

and given how good(ready) the recent waves so kids are, maybe today's state of affairs was inevitable

but as soon as Oil began to give out those $6M/yr 2d-contracts, i began to worry about how it would all evolve

 

[Ignite111]

I saw confirmed trade and got all excited.. WHY YOU BUMPING THIS!!!


I am quite happy with having Strome. It's probably different since we have the cap space, but he's been solid for us.

both are brutal

Doesn't Strome have 12 points in 36 games? -6 and 1 assist in his past 10 games. Sounds very solid

 

[Ctrain2k]

i rarely make inflammatory statements here,
but i have no sympathy for EO and their Cap Hell

i blame EO for the cycle of aggressive over-payments, and top heavy Cap Hit rosters, which have made the hard Cap situation worse over the last ~10 years

between the Offer Sheets (Vanek, 2007, 7 years, $50 million, ... the first huge OS of the latest era)
and then the big-ticket 2d contracts (Eberle, Hall, RNH were among the first)
the Oilers led the charge to killing bridge contracts, and other trends which have made Cap era more challenging than need be, for both teams, and players ...

Should we talk about Wade Redden, Scott Gomez, Chris Drury?

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

Should we talk about Wade Redden, Scott Gomez, Chris Drury?

You can, but you better explain how those contracts hindered the Rangers. Hell, they got McDonagh for Gomez.

 

[Ctrain2k]

You can, but you better explain how those contracts hindered the Rangers. Hell, they got McDonagh for Gomez.

Yeah, has nothing to do with handing out stupid contracts.

 

[ElPrimeTime]

i rarely make inflammatory statements here,
but i have no sympathy for EO and their Cap Hell

i blame EO for the cycle of aggressive over-payments, and top heavy Cap Hit rosters, which have made the hard Cap situation worse over the last ~10 years

between the Offer Sheets (Vanek, 2007, 7 years, $50 million, ... the first huge OS of the latest era)
and then the big-ticket 2d contracts (Eberle, Hall, RNH were among the first)
the Oilers led the charge to killing bridge contracts, and other trends which have made Cap era more challenging than need be, for both teams, and players ...

Cute... not like the Rangers didn't offer sheet Joe Sakic back in the late 90s.

 

[Kocur Dill]

Big difference between NYR paying out bad contracts and Edmonton begging for the Cap "for parody" then doing the same themselves.

 

[izzy]

wow that second half of the 2011 first round is bad

 

[Oak]

Rangers had Glen Sather running the show who was part of the Edmonton old boys club so the silly moves are to be expected.

 

[koth]

I called this trade back in January.