Rumor: Oilers trying to trade dead weight?

[izzy]

the entire roster outside of like 5 players is dead weight

 

[belair]

Still not understanding where the logic is in going to market with either of Manning or Petrovic.

Alex Petrovic's contract ends at the end of the year. Matthew Benning is the guy you trade.

Brandon Manning is fine as a #7 next season and has looked fine as a bottom pairing D next to a stable partner. He is a good puck mover who adds some offensive ability to that bottom pair. Just needs a coach who plays him accordingly.

Double down on these bets. They're pretty frigging small.

 

[780il]

MTL:
Oilers 2019 2nd rd pick
Petrovic
Manning

Oilers:
Hudon

Deal?

(Both players will be waivers pickup the next day in all likelihood).

Not giving up a 2nd to get rid of Manning. He can be buried and not count for much against the cap.

Hudon sucks. Unless it's for a 5th/6th I don't want him.

 

[mitchthemitch]

you can have zaitsev for both of them

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Klefbom, Larsson.

Russell is hardly dead weight.

I'd throw Chiasson in there as well. Kassian too, simply because with the right cast of players, he'd be a decent 4th-liner. Maybe Khaira

After that, though, ... *phew*

 

[Vitto79]

Any pick or prospect besides our 1st and Bouchard is on the table.

But you were probably trying to scam us out of one of those pieces anyway sooooo....

Lol gotta be realistic so no .... can’t believe they just got Manning and Petrovic and now trying to dump

 

[Funk21]

What is the current value of Lucic with .25% retained plus Edmonton's 1st 2019(lotto protected)

No lottery protection and it’s still not enough for most teams

 

[DavidBL]

Wasn't Benning pretty good a few years ago? What happened?

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Chiarelli is sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a mai tai and just giggling away.

Wrong, he's sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a mai tai wondering what he did wrong and how he's going to sucker some other team into letting him ru(i)n things.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Wasn't Benning pretty good a few years ago? What happened?

The Oilers happened.

 

[Funk21]

The only definitively effed up pick was Yakupov and most of the forwards taken top ten suck.

Everyone and their grandma would have taken Puljujarvi at 4. Did we screw up his development - yes. But that’s not the same as effing the pick up.

There were a lot of pundits that didn’t like Yak, was he considered the best forward of the draft sure but if you were uncertain about him as a play you trade down and grab one of the D men:
Lindholm
Reilly
Dumba
Trouba

Like grab another pick.

Regarding Pool Party, the fact that a Finnish GM passed on one of his own should have screamed alert alert. Compound this with poor development and well we know what has happened.

The oilers scouting department needs to be overhauled with the rest of the front office.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

havent they been trying to trade dead weight the past decade?

Weird thread lol

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

Are they even allowed to trade the entire team minus McDavid and Draisaitl ?

 

[DavidBL]

The Oilers happened.

Has he been that bad? He was supposed to be a top 4 D from the hype if I recall. Can he be a decent #4/5 guy? Or is he in healthy scratch territory?

 

[Pablo El Perro]

What is the current value of Lucic with .25% retained plus Edmonton's 1st 2019(lotto protected)

Reimer and your third?

 

[Philadelphia Ducks]

Every team in th league wants to move dead weight

 

[Dizzay]

What would Edmonton expect back for Lucic 50% retained? (Not asking to take back to Boston, just curious)

 

[Artanis]

Toss them over to Ottawa with some picks.

 

[Stephen]

Surprised the Edmonton braintrust isn't aware of the fact that it's bad for your GM rep to trade players so soon after acquiring them.

 

[voxel]

There were a lot of pundits that didn’t like Yak, was he considered the best forward of the draft sure but if you were uncertain about him as a play you trade down and grab one of the D men:
Lindholm
Reilly
Dumba
Trouba

Like grab another pick.

Regarding Pool Party, the fact that a Finnish GM passed on one of his own should have screamed alert alert. Compound this with poor development and well we know what has happened.

The oilers scouting department needs to be overhauled with the rest of the front office.

The consensus 1/2 were Yakopuv or Murray. You must be new to hockey because how often has ANYBODY not taken a top-3 consensus player... look at the 2017 draft. Would you have NOT taken either Nico or Patrick 1/2 at the time? In hindsight the following players are better... but nobody is picking Miro or Elias #1 back then.

 

[bernmeister]

What is the current value of Lucic with .25% retained plus Edmonton's 1st 2019(lotto protected)

Do NOT want even w/max retention
Aside from $, the term of that contract is a killer.

Rangers can take some contracts for some picks

Only so much and if they work in correct term duration at right $ amount.
Cap space in a cap finite league is a premium asset
We must not squander it
esp, since we do not have compensatory/compliance whatever they called it buyouts set up, where it would cost mostly $ AND STILL partial cap hit, I think.

 

[voxel]

Surprised the Edmonton braintrust isn't aware of the fact that it's bad for your GM rep to trade players so soon after acquiring them.

GM got fired.

 

[Kotkaniemi15]

I would take a bad contract in exchange for Pulju to the Habs.

 

[Stephen]

GM got fired.

No, I'm just making an NHL 19 joke.

 

[XXIV97]

Has he been that bad? He was supposed to be a top 4 D from the hype if I recall. Can he be a decent #4/5 guy? Or is he in healthy scratch territory?

He has the potential to be a #5