Not at all.
Connor is bullet proof. Draisaitl a little less, but the Hawks won a Stanley cup without a second line center.
Rumor: Peter Chiarelli is not done?
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Not at all.
Connor is bullet proof. Draisaitl a little less, but the Hawks won a Stanley cup without a second line center.
LTIR
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A lot easier to get a veteran 2/3C than an offensive top 4 RD..
Chia is allowed more than 1 transaction so im sure he will address the hole created by whoever leaves.
Their defense was flat out amazing though. Hjalmarsson would be Edmonton's #1D. He's their 2nd or 3rd best D.
I think at this point chia has to work a deal around nurse+ for that #1 PP D. Trading Nuge or Eberle for another D would leave our offence to shallow-especially after loosing hall.
LTIR
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Nothing a Versteeg cant resolve..
Hole on Wing or 3C is easier to fill than a top4 RD
This is the exact reason why we shouldnt trade McDavid, Draisaitl or RNH.
How will we do once one or two of them are injured again.
Guaranteed we will be down a Center this year.
How would the pens do if one or two of Malin / Crosby are injured?
I mean... we are in trouble if our best players are injured but so is the entire damn league.
I'm pretty sure the Ducks are just right ****ed if both Getzlaf and Perry get injured. That is Hockey for ya.
Wheatking
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There should be SOME concern. I agree that McDavid isn't the average young player so I'm not too worried about him but we still don't know which version of Draisaitl we saw last year is going to show up this season. There's also a pretty good chance he's either going to have a crappy Yakupov or a rookie Puljujarvi on his wing. At least he won't be on the top line like RNH was when he broke into the league though.
If you can get a top pairing Dman for a package involving RNH, you gotta do it...but of course it's not ideal.
Akonite
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You don't build a team based off the assumption that a key player will be injured. You build a team to be balanced and competitive, which the Oilers could be if RNH returned a guy like Barrie.
If your main reason to keep him is to replace Connor or Leon in the case of injury, that just doesn't make any sense for a 6 million dollar player.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Larsson follows Hedman's development curve. IMO Edmonton did really well with that deal. Klefbom-Larsson looks like a keeper.
As far as the next target, Shatty would probably be easier to acquire than Barrie. Just gotta make sure they can lock him up.
As far as the next target, Shatty would probably be easier to acquire than Barrie. Just gotta make sure they can lock him up.
Agreed.
The question is whether the prospect of playing on a good, young, developing (only 1 of those adjectives is a guarantee, btw) squad with some growing momentum is enough to entice him from wanting to locate on the east coast. Oilers obviously can't afford to make any deal without a minimum of a 2 yr extension commitment.
Hedman already showed quite a bit more at the same time in his development. I think it's much more likely that he follows the Erik Johnson path of development. Which, if true is fine as he won't be ready until the rest of the team is anyway
Malkin and Crosby only played 84 games out of a possible 162 for them during the 2010-2011 regular season and Pittsburgh still finished with 106 points. The next year Crosby played 22 games and they finished with 108 points. So it looks like they can handle it.
A logical trade for Edmonton to acquire a top pairing D is to package Eberle/Yakupov & Nurse. I'd even include a high pick to get the deal done. I do not want to see RNH traded (unless it's to Vancouver :p )
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Eberle really is the only one who has any real value of the three. What is your opinion of Yakupov long term? And Nurse's hockey sense was questioned even before he was drafted by other teams(Flyers for one). I agree RHN would look good in Vancouver but Jim Benning who is a nice man but just a terrible GM would screw any deal there up.
gordie
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Like Pittsburgh?After Letang who are all these allstars?
Olli Maatta would be by far and away the best D on Edmonton as well as Trevor Daley.
LTIR
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Olli Maatta would be by far and away the best D on Edmonton as well as Trevor Daley.
Maatta from his rookie season sure... This version of Maata would be #4 at best ..Daley i havent really followed so he might be on par with Sekera and klefbom but even then it would be debatable. "Far and away" is horsekrap especially now that Oilers have acquired Larsson.
gordie
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Larsson isn't that good and Edmonton fans will find that out very soon. The rest of your comparisons are ridiculous.
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Maybe. If Klefbom doesn't pan out, then Oil has 2 actual Dmen. 2, not 8.
Still missing one allstar/olympian and 2nd pair RD. Klef is far from Hedman, and playing him 24min a night is symptom of team strength. We are talking about a kid that looked 50/50 AHL player in December.
Missing on Demers was huge. Now it is a forced trade and the whole league knows it.
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