Most Valuable Oiler #19 - Tiebreak

Mc5RingsAndABeer

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May 25, 2011
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Between Nikita Nikitin and Marc Arcobello, who do you think is the next most valuable Oiler going forward?

Consider age, contract, injury history, positional value, leadership, potential, etc... One way of thinking of it would be: in a trade to a neutral team, who would bring the greatest return?


2014 Offseason Results:
Rank|Name|Vote|Δ
1| Taylor Hall|96%|--
2| Ryan Nugent-Hopkins|84%|--
3| Jordan Eberle|59%|+1
4| Nail Yakupov|43%|-1
5| Leon Draisaitl |39%|*
6| Darnell Nurse |39%|+6
7| David Perron |52%|+4
8| Justin Schultz |63%|-3
9| Martin Marincin # |30%|^
10| Oscar Klefbom # |34%|-2
11| Ben Scrivens |45%|*
12| Jeff Petry |67%|-2
13| Mark Fayne |66%|*
14| Benoit Pouliot |38%|*
15| Boyd Gordon |43%|-1
16| Victor Fasth |36%|*
17| Andrew Ference # |28%|-4
18| Teddy Purcell |37%|*
19| TIE ||
*new to 2014-2015 Oilers roster
#tiebreak
^unranked in 2013-2014


2013 Offseason Results:
*not on 2014-2015 Oilers roster
 

dustrock

Too Legit To Quit
Sep 22, 2008
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For this season, especially the first 25 games of the season, I see Arcobello as being more valuable than Nikitin, mostly because his success or failure will have a direct impact on the Oilers and their problem with center depth.

I feel with Nikitin if he wasn't around we could probably replace him with MM, Klefbom, Aulie, etc, but if Arcobello gets hurt, the center depth gets even worse.
 

thadd

Oil4Life
Jun 9, 2007
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Canada
I really don't see either of these guys staying in Edmonton for a long time.

On top of that I think that Nikitin's shutdown game for 2 years will be more helpful than Acro's ability to a plug at center for a season or two.
 

Halibut

Registered User
Jul 24, 2010
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That contract really drops the value of Nikitin. $4.5 million for a guy who was barely in the Blue Jackets top 6 last year? Cant see anybody trading for that unless we retained a bunch of salary.
 

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