Pre-Game Talk: Rodrigue Time

This entire front office and coaching/training/development staff is the most incompetent in the league. Why did they bring back Frederic when he clearly wasn't even close to being ready.

We'll be lucky to have him more than a couple games for playoffs, mark my words. Even if he's back, he's going to be 50%.

Giving up a 2nd rounder PLUS the extra paid for retention is unacceptable and par for the course with this team.
 
I'm not too surprised

He looked like he might have tweaked things a bit on his first shift. It might not have hurt enough to pull out of the game immediately, he probably had inflammation and pain after the game once he cooled down.

High ankle sprains take forever to heal 100%. In high school I got a high ankle sprain in wrestling and that was it for almost a year.
 
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If he doesn't play in the playoffs, or is a shell of himself in the playoffs, the managers responsible for the trade should go.

I have no problem trading for a questionably available player, but at a steep discount or with conditions attached. Paying for retention with no conditions for a guy with a high ankle sprain (an injury my grandmother knows is uncertain and problematic) only for him to not play is fireable. Even if the cost wasn't major.

Shows incredible incompetence.

Would you expect anything less from this crew running the show here now?
 
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High ankle sprains take forever to heal 100%. In high school I got a high ankle sprain in wrestling and that was it for almost a year.
Yeah, I've had one myself

Worst part was that you get to the point it feels good, then you try to stress it and realize it's not even close to being healed.
 
Would you expect anything less from this crew running the show here now?

Frankly, yes.

Even the dumbest of managers know that if you have limited trade resources, it probably isn't wise to gun most of it on a guy a week removed from a high ankle sprain. Still wouldn't have had a problem dealing for him, but for not close to the amount that was dealt, and with conditions.

The only way this is at all acceptable is if the Bruins misrepresented the injury. There is no other excuse.
 
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Of course he is..


for freaks sake

If he doesn't play in the playoffs, or is a shell of himself in the playoffs, the managers responsible for the trade should go.

I have no problem trading for a questionably available player, but at a steep discount or with conditions attached. Paying for retention with no conditions for a guy with a high ankle sprain (an injury my grandmother knows is uncertain and problematic) only for him to not play is fireable. Even if the cost wasn't major.

Shows incredible incompetence.

I'm not too surprised

He looked like he might have tweaked things a bit on his first shift. It might not have hurt enough to pull out of the game immediately, he probably had inflammation and pain after the game once he cooled down.

This entire front office and coaching/training/development staff is the most incompetent in the league. Why did they bring back Frederic when he clearly wasn't even close to being ready.

We'll be lucky to have him more than a couple games for playoffs, mark my words. Even if he's back, he's going to be 50%.

Giving up a 2nd rounder PLUS the extra paid for retention is unacceptable and par for the course with this team.

oilers going 2/2 at bringing players back too early with Drai and Frederic just for them to reinjure, can they make it 5 for 5?
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If he doesn't play in the playoffs, or is a shell of himself in the playoffs, the managers responsible for the trade should go.

I have no problem trading for a questionably available player, but at a steep discount or with conditions attached. Paying for retention with no conditions for a guy with a high ankle sprain (an injury my grandmother knows is uncertain and problematic) only for him to not play is fireable. Even if the cost wasn't major.

Shows incredible incompetence.
I 100% agree- which means nothing will happen and McDrai will be saddled with another piss poor manager taking them right out of the cup window
 
Lowetide’s article in The Athletic saying Pickard is the number 1 goalie right now and backed it up with receipts. One can argue Skinner got Woody fired, and now he is working on coach 2
Thus actually has some legs to it if you step back and look at it open minded.

Woody amd knoblach both started off with a bang out of the gates. Both faltered the exact same way. Knoblach is doing and making the exact same mistakes as Woody made. At the time Woody was making similar mistakes that tippet made and i asked many times who is actually making the decisions as no matter who was coaching the same stupid shit continued to happen

And here we are again with the same shit. Goaltending is brutal. Players seem to come out flying dominate early only to go down 1 or 2 goals in the first and look to completely give up and say fk it only for coach to start to hammer mcdrai into the ground. Rinse and repeat no matter who is behind the bench. Guess Schwartz has alot me power then any of us think.... 🤔
 
lol if the oilers management is the most incompetent in the league, then what do you say about Philly, Buff, Calgary, Seattle, NYI, etc. etc. etc. you people are too dramatic, take a break from HF, its time.
 
lol if the oilers management is the most incompetent in the league, then what do you say about Philly, Buff, Calgary, Seattle, NYI, etc. etc. etc. you people are too dramatic, take a break from HF, its time.
I Agree to an extent but the teams you mentioned don't have possibly the greatest player ever to lace them up in there line up followed up with a top 3 centre in the league as an appetizer lolol
 
If he doesn't play in the playoffs, or is a shell of himself in the playoffs, the managers responsible for the trade should go.

I have no problem trading for a questionably available player, but at a steep discount or with conditions attached. Paying for retention with no conditions for a guy with a high ankle sprain (an injury my grandmother knows is uncertain and problematic) only for him to not play is fireable. Even if the cost wasn't major.

Shows incredible incompetence.
They had the option for an Emergency call up when Draisaitl was injured. Nope, they chose to rush back an injured player rather than pay for an Uber to get a guy from Bako.
 

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