Proposal: Oilers trades to fix Defense (EDM-BOS / EDM-MTL)

[not quite yoda]

2 trades for the Oilers to fix their Defense

Trade #1;
Oilers; Carlo, Frederic
Bruins; Bouchard, J. Skinner

Trade #2;
Oilers; Savard (50% retained)
Canadiens: Stecher, 2026 3rd

Yeah, Savard costs you a 2nd rounder. Especially if retained at all....

MTL has no need for Stecher.

 

[MessierThanThou]

The stupidity of some Oiler fans in thinking trading an offensive dynamo from the backend at age 25 for 2 perennial #4 pluggers will Fix our goaltending woes.

It's amazing just how oblivious these Skinner earthers are to such a patently obvious problem. The Skinner earthers ignore all of these metrics and stats that tell us our defense is actually, finally good, and ignore all these metrics and stats that tell us our goaltending is terrible, and still pass most of the blame on to what is probably our best defense since Pronger was here.

The Skinner earthers seem to defend every bad goal he lets in, claiming a deflection, or screening, or Bouchard, who is never allowed to make a mistake because mistakes are impossible to stop, and would sooner blame McDavid, Draisaitl, and even trade Bouchard for lesser players like Savard than ever blame the guy who cost us the Cup in 2023. And almost cost us round 2 last year. But hey, he had that one good series against Dallas, guys! Just ignore the lowest save percentage of any goalie in a SCF since the 80s....

I also love the whole, "he's making under $3 million, guys, these are perfectly fine numbers for that salary" argument. Yeah, I would love to see how many guys ahead of him numbers-wise are making less or roughly the same...I'd wager a majority of them. And depending on what charts you look at, there are either 41 goalies with better numbers or 74...

 

[Fourier]

A few - oilers 2nd line is pretty underwhelming

The center on the second line is second in the league in scoring. Away from McDavid Draisaitl's line has had a 56% GF% this year.