Waived: [NYI] Sam Bolduc, Pierre Engvall, Hudson Fasching, Liam Foudy, Marcus Hogberg, Grant Hutton, Frederik Karlstrom, Jakub Skarek waived by the Islanders

[loosemoose]

Engvall is an excellent role player and a playdriver, but doesn't fit the stereotype of his size. Kind of a unique situation where he would be a lot more appreciated if he was 5 inches shorter, but played the exact same way.

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

I also think there's a pretty decent Bolduc gets claimed. But are the Oilers really in the right position or "phase" to be tinkering around with a "Project 7th D"? Feel like they'd be better served just rolling with some ho hum "know what you're gonna get", knows their roles, press box jockey filler type. Who can just step in and well..."could be worse".

Josh Brown is currently our 7th D and got sent down to Bako. Just taking a flyer on Bolduc wouldn't hurt, he's cheaper than Brown and if things don't go well, just waive him again. All that being said, it's not exactly a important need right now, just an armchair GM'ing idea.

 

[MikeyMike01]

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Kind of a shame that he's another player who is going to get Wade Reddened out of the league because a GM made a stupid decision though. There are plenty of teams that could use a player like Engvall, even at something similar to that cap hit. Just simply...not for nearly half that long. But it was an obviously insane contract to sign the guy to at the time, in term more so than AAV. And Engvall still gets his money so he'll probably be alright. Just sucks a bit to see NHL caliber players washed out of a talent-thin pool, with worse players getting the jobs instead, because in the immortal words of Bobby Lou, "his contract sucks", or as Lou Lams himself put it, "too much, for too long".

He’ll definitely play in the NHL again. He’s being waived to be cap compliant; otherwise he would just be a healthy scratch.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Engvall seems like he had a decent year last year, but this is why you don't give depth players 7 year deals.

I don't know why anyone is willing to go over 3 or 4 years for clear bottom-6 guys.

I don't think it's an inherently bad idea... provided you're getting value out of it. 3M for Engvall isn't much of a discount