Roster Building Thread VI (2022-23): Offseason edition
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Raspewtin
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PLD is a 2C that gets a lot of minutes and doesn't do a whole lot efficiently. LA got rekt.
Bread, Fox and Zib are RH shots. We’d figure it out; building your team around the PP isn’t the correct art of team building anyway, as evidenced by our inability to play actual 5v5 hockey sinking us. Ice the best team possible, figure out the special teams adjustments as you go.
Or Chytil got that contract because he is turning 24 before the season begins and has just broken 40 points for the first time in his career. PLD just finished his 24 year old season and has broken 60 points 3x.
PLD has 220 EV career points in 434 games. That’s .51 per game.
Chytil has 122 in 327 games. That’s .38 per game.
Man, Drury really pulled a fast one!
Chytil would need to score 98 EV points - not total points, but all EV - in his next 107 games. Virtually an EV point per game, to close the gap. Since I’m fairly certain (like, bet my mortgage certain) Chytil will never score 98 points of any total kind in a 107 game stretch in his career, it’s about as certain as my having two hands that he won’t catch up at the same age.
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Shesterkybomb
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The bumper doesn't have to be rh, when i was making a pp i always had the shooter ie mika facing the bumper for another option for the shooter, either shoot the one timer or fake and pass to the bumper for a shot. Imo this would be a real help to our pp. Id love to have Lafreniere in that spot, he really doesn't get to use his shot on the pp enough.
The key isn't giving Mika an option, the key is getting Mika the puck.
Trajectories bro.
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Honestly, if you don't think the Chytil contract is a great contract after what PLD just signed for, then you just aren't being honest about it.
I didn't compare PLD to Chytil as a player, at all, merely that if PLD is getting 8.5M season and Chytil is getting 4.437M then it's a great contract. You might actually be the first person that I've seen think otherwise - on these boards, on multitudes of podcasts, or on the usual media outlets.
Yes, Drury deserves a ton of credit for that. There's plenty of other avenues to criticize him about, but the Chytil contract isn't one of them. Chytil took a huge step last year, let's hope he takes another one this year.
Also having all this cap space tied up keeps the off-season from being fun around here.
Stupid Jeff.
Stupid Jeff.
Edmonton is not qualifying Klim Kostin
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Yamamoto, Kostin on the way out as Oilers' Holland looks to build Cup-winning team
As Oilers GM Ken Holland heads into free agency with a clear and present needs, it is obvious beyond a doubt that barring something unforeseen, both Kailer Yamamoto and Klim Kostin have played their last game in Edmonton.
Edmonton is not qualifying Klim Kostin
Yamamoto, Kostin on the way out as Oilers' Holland looks to build Cup-winning team
As Oilers GM Ken Holland heads into free agency with a clear and present needs, it is obvious beyond a doubt that barring something unforeseen, both Kailer Yamamoto and Klim Kostin have played their last game in Edmonton.
I would not mind him. He always had potential. Worth a risk. Would be cheap forward depth
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I think cheap may be a relative term, as because he won't be cheap (at least according to the Oilers). They believe he will command over $1M AAV.
nsvoyageurs
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He was intriguing in his draft year; many on here wanted the NYR to take him. His career hasn't panned out that way. As a 4th liner who has skill, he'd be worth a look (obviously at the right price for a team with little cap space).Edmonton is not qualifying Klim Kostin
Yamamoto, Kostin on the way out as Oilers' Holland looks to build Cup-winning team
As Oilers GM Ken Holland heads into free agency with a clear and present needs, it is obvious beyond a doubt that barring something unforeseen, both Kailer Yamamoto and Klim Kostin have played their last game in Edmonton.
Kostin is also arbitration eligible.
It's not his skill. Kostin can play the big and heavy game.
How would he be cheap? Holland just implied he will cost more than $1 million….
AirGut
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Drury needs to grow a pair & get ballsy, I'm still waiting for a statement trade by him
So far the biggest off-season deal he's ever done was the Buch trade, tsk tsk
Because he fights? I don’t see Kostin replicating what he did last year scoring wise. But even if he does, we cannot afford him or Motte or any 4th line forward who wants more than $1 million.
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