Confirmed with Link: [EDM/VAN] Oilers acquire Vasily Podkolzin for OTT 4th '25

[Davo Ikinzom]

 

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He is on pace 14pts right now... I saw enought Canuck games to suspect that goal scoring is not in his tool box. He has lots of tools but forgets his tool box at home

How many of those with Draisaitl? I wouldn't use his pace playing with Derek Ryan and Corey Perry as your barometer.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Bash Bros. Line, lets do it.

Funniest part isn't even Vat standing there just to get decked. Happened right in front of Ducks bench and they want nothing to do with it. Killorn with the mean moustache looking around like his lawn sprinkler needs fixing. Wants no part of Kostin. Then they even up the call despite what Ducks announcers crying for.

 

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Vatrano f***ed around and found out.

 

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That’s just perfect technique right there

 

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Funniest part isn't even Vat standing there just to get decked. Happened right in front of Ducks bench and they want nothing to do with it. Killorn with the mean moustache looking around like his lawn sprinkler needs fixing. Wants no part of Kostin. Then they even up the call despite what Ducks announcers crying for.

I love this. Vatrano is the definition of FAFO in this clip. You wanna two hand crosscheck me and then just stand there like an idiot and not protect yourself? Well eat some leather. This is old school hockey where if you did something stupid you had to answer for it and there might be consequences. As a result, a lot of the stupid stuff stopped as guys were too chickenshit to want to answer for it. Guys like Turtle and Ratface would be a hell of a lot less brave than they are now where they can be gigantic f***sticks and never face any consequences.

Love Kostin for this. What a pu$$y Vatrano looks like, pathetic.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I love this. Vatrano is the definition of FAFO in this clip. You wanna two hand crosscheck me and then just stand there like an idiot and not protect yourself? Well eat some leather. This is old school hockey where if you did something stupid you had to answer for it and there might be consequences. As a result, a lot of the stupid stuff stopped as guys were too chickenshit to want to answer for it. Guys like Turtle and Ratface would be a hell of a lot less brave than they are now where they can be gigantic f***sticks and never face any consequences.

Love Kostin for this. What a pu$$y Vatrano looks like, pathetic.

Yep. Whole sequence and the ducks announcers is hilarious. They figure Kostin will get a major, officials call it even up minors. "Vatrano didn't get his moneys worth there" lol Killorn there supposedly as a hardnosed grit vet just skates around and pretends not to notice what happened to a team mate. Whole Ducks bench busy waiting for the bus out of town. I saw bits of the game and not sure Ducks even made Kostin answer for it. Not that anybody in their lineup would.

SJ should play Kostin just for the entertainment value. They need to sell tickets after all. He's interesting anyway.

 

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Funniest part isn't even Vat standing there just to get decked. Happened right in front of Ducks bench and they want nothing to do with it. Killorn with the mean moustache looking around like his lawn sprinkler needs fixing. Wants no part of Kostin. Then they even up the call despite what Ducks announcers crying for.

This is great. I hate when players take a shot and expect a scrum / refs so they don’t have to answer the bell.

 

[Drivesaitl]

This is great. I hate when players take a shot and expect a scrum / refs so they don’t have to answer the bell.

Only thing better would be Zegras but we know he wouldn't be in there in that. haha

Vatrano must have grown up in a sheltered neighborhood or something. "Hey, he punched me, how's this allowed, somebody do something" Officials: "Its hockey, wake the f*** up. "

Parents didn't sign him up for this. heh Shocked that Vatrano is 30 actually and with being in pro hockey for a longwhile you figure he'd be up to speed. Nope. Chin a dope, it isn't a thing.

 

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Kostin makes sense for multiple reasons. We probably have to lose Evander Kane after this season because we need cap space, having his replacement ready to go with Kostin, who is younger, would be good forward planning as well, but if you wanted to really bully an opponent in the playoffs, having all three of Podz, Kostin, and Kane in on top of having Nurse on the back end could in a 7 game series intimidate an opponent and wear them down for sure.

It doesn't have to cut into the D budget, if he's effectively coming in retained at 1 mill it just means you demote someone off the forward roster to bring him on.

If he plays well here (for whatever reason I think he just likes the atmosphere/media of the Edmonton market, while some players wilt he seems to enjoy it), then basically you've acquired a 1st round pick back, you can at least look at it that way, since we've done f*** all (especially at forward) to have success in drafting it would be nice if Kostin-Podz developed here with Holloway, McLeod, etc. gone and guys like Yamamoto busting.

The tricky part will be just paying a 3rd team to retain on him, that should be easier done the deeper you get into the season, since SJ cannot retain.