Value of: Haula to EDM

[nickschultzfan]

If Klefbom counts? He is our best defenceman so I don't know what you mean if he counts. Even if you look in the big picture Oilers can not trade both Eberle and RNH. Even with Pomenville coming back our RW depth is not very good. Before we signed The Monster I liked the proposed trade from Wildfans with Kuemper, Zucker and Dumba for RNH.

To be frank, your winger depth will not be as important to you when you have blue line depth. Besides, Pulj, Pominville, and Yak RW depth will be decent considering your centers.

 

[King1s]

Partial NMC. Nobody knows if he would have to waive or not.

Scandella, Dumba, Haula, and Pominville for RNH, Eberle, and Nurse.

After a deep breath, both teams realize that they fixed their issues in one trade.

Close but not quite there. Needs some minor adjustment and it is a deal.

 

[Sweoilers]

In the kindest possible way. Oilers defense is not very good. Being the best Oilers D is like going to allstar game in the AHL. Promising, but just promising.

Watched 20 oilers games last year and Klefbom would be 3rd pair in Wild.

Klefbom would be on your second pair and considering that you said that with Klefbom we would have two top 4 LH Dmen I guess you are talking about Sekera. So what you are saying is that Sekera would be on your top 4 but not Klefbom, and Klefbom sich the better defenceman. Doesn't make sense to me.
I do agree that our defence has been skit the last 10 years. PS the games you saw then Klefbom was carrying an anchor called Schultz.

 

[Sweoilers]

To be frank, your winger depth will not be as important to you when you have blue line depth. Besides, Pulj, Pominville, and Yak RW depth will be decent considering your centers.

I do see your point but none of them are proven goal scorers. Sure, Puljujarvi and Yak has potential to score 25-30 goals a season and Pominville could maybe score 15-20 but we don't have a single proven scorer. Eberle is our only proven scorer now since Hall is gone. If it had to go down to it I would probably do it but I still think it would hurt. Ps would that trade even work cap wise?

 

[TaLoN]

You mean he looks like carbon copy of Reilly (who is couple years older)? I d still play Klef over Reilly.

Ryan Suter, Marco Scandella, Jonas Brodin

Reilly isn't good enough for 3rd pair LHD here yet either.

 

[Golden Gophers 4649]

Nah, thats better for mn as it actually addresses our needs. I'd do that but I'm higher on RNH than most wild fans.

WTF! You realize Haula became a much more effective point producer with a new coach than he was under Yeo?

Not to mention the Wild would likely never deal Spurgeon for RNH. I mean they balked at Dumba and a 2nd for RNH. Sorry, try again!

RNH is a nice player but you can't deal two important pieces for him unless he proves he can truly be an elite center.

 

[Blitzago*]

WTF! You realize Haula became a much more effective point producer with a new coach than he was under Yeo?

Not to mention the Wild would likely never deal Spurgeon for RNH. I mean they balked at Dumba and a 2nd for RNH. Sorry, try again!

RNH is a nice player but you can't deal two important pieces for him unless he proves he can truly be an elite center.

And if he proves that it's gonna cost you alot more than dumba and a 2nd.

 

[Minnesota]

WTF! You realize Haula became a much more effective point producer with a new coach than he was under Yeo?

Not to mention the Wild would likely never deal Spurgeon for RNH. I mean they balked at Dumba and a 2nd for RNH. Sorry, try again!

RNH is a nice player but you can't deal two important pieces for him unless he proves he can truly be an elite center.

The Wild would happily give Edmonton Spurgeon+ for RNH. They wanted to trade Dumba +2nd for Nugent-Hopkins, but we don't have a 2nd round pick for like... The next 20 years.

 

[57special]

The Wild would happily give Edmonton Spurgeon+ for RNH. They wanted to trade Dumba +2nd for Nugent-Hopkins, but we don't have a 2nd round pick for like... The next 20 years.

You don't speak for all Wild fans, and certainly not for GM Fletcher. Any add on top of Spurgeon, if any, would be a token add.

Since the trade for Laarson and the signing of Staal, EDM and MN have become less likely trade partners. In other words, if they couldn't get a deal done before, why would they do one now?

 

[AKL]

You don't speak for all Wild fans, and certainly not for GM Fletcher. Any add on top of Spurgeon, if any, would be a token add.

Since the trade for Laarson and the signing of Staal, EDM and MN have become less likely trade partners. In other words, if they couldn't get a deal done before, why would they do one now?

Yeah the signing of Staal pretty much signaled an end to us shopping our defenders until the trade deadline unless someone approaches us with an offer we can't refuse.

 

[nickschultzfan]

Pretty sure my proposal accounted for Staal, Larsson, and team's long-term cap situations.

 

[AKL]

Pretty sure my proposal accounted for Staal, Larsson, and team's long-term cap situations.

The point is no deal is going to happen and that's why we signed Staal/the result of signing Staal. Fletcher didn't want to trade any of the defensemen, and signing Staal allowed him to keep them in the hopes that Staal can play top 6 C and moving Granlund to wing will help our offense. So even if you account for Staal, it's not happening.