Rumor: Rumors and Proposals Thread: "Monkey Wrench"

[McAsuno]

 

[Oilhawks]

He’s a rental, won’t be coming here

 

[JeffSkinner53]

Columbus seems to have an impossible time retaining players

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

He’s a rental, won’t be coming here

Probably, but he's likely very cheap to acquire, given the contract and the relationship in Columbus.

 

[jukon]

Ok. Only minor deals, huh? Let's go:

Kassian for Nick Paul (Don't re-sign Paul, trade his rights if we can)

Barrie + for Soucy and Geekie

Archibald for Sekera

Hyman - McDavid - Yamo
Kane - Drai - Puljujarvi
Foegele - Nuge - Ryan
Paul - McLeod - Geekie

Nurse - Bouchard
Keith - Ceci
Soucy - Sekera

 

[McBooya42]

 

[soothsayer]

Columbus seems to have an impossible time retaining players

Columbus is 10 times the shithole Edmonton is, but no one talks about how undesirable some of the dumps in the US market are.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Ok. Only minor deals, huh? Let's go:

Kassian for Nick Paul (Don't re-sign Paul, trade his rights if we can)

Barrie + for Soucy and Geekie

Archibald for Sekera

Hyman - McDavid - Yamo
Kane - Drai - Puljujarvi
Foegele - Nuge - Ryan
Paul - McLeod - Geekie

Nurse - Bouchard
Keith - Ceci
Soucy - Sekera

I love Sekera too, but I think his body is done.

 

[alphahelix]

I love Sekera too, but I think his body is done.

But apparently he still has a better GA/60 than any Oilers D? Or something... *see earlier post

 

[McBooya42]

I'll be gone for a while for Marriage today but I will still guess

Oilers acquire Nick Paul

OR

Oilers acquire Carson Soucy

 

[Ritchie Valens]

I want Soucy-Ceci as a pairing just for the lulz.

 

[alphahelix]

Barrie for Soucy
2nd for Braun

or something Like that?
I’m fairly comfortable with the F situation, assuming Holloway can step up to add some depth punch down the stretch.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Got to be nerve wracking for some of these guys. Tomorrow is the last game some will play in Oilers silks.

 

[Magnum23]

One could dream but imagine if Edmonton were able to get Debrincat

 

[94 Oil Drops]

One could dream but imagine if Edmonton were able to get Debrincat

I'd deficate myself if that happened.

Getting Soucy and Paul would be a good deadline providing the trade value is acceptable. There's 0 chance we're getting Flurey and Lindholm so we'll just have to take what we can realistically get.

 

[Del Preston]

I still want John Gibson.

 

[Magnum23]

I'd deficate myself if that happened.

Getting Soucy and Paul would be a good deadline providing the trade value is acceptable. There's 0 chance we're getting Flurey and Lindholm so we'll just have to take what we can realistically get.

Would be crazy if Holland pulled a 2013 Brooklyn Nets and got us both Debrincat and Kane. I know it will never happen but it’s fun to dream sometimes

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Would be crazy if Holland pulled a 2013 Brooklyn Nets and got us both Debrincat and Kane. I know it will never happen but it’s fun to dream sometimes

I was looking and thinking that NYR is the perfect landing spot for Kane, they can make it fit, have the assets and can reunite Kane and Panarin.

 

[jukon]

If you had to rank the following goalies in terms of how aggressively you would pursue them, how would you put them? Depending on who you ask on HFB, their value can range from huge to you'd have to pay me to take them.

Hart
Blackwood
Gibson
Murray
Grubauer
Binnington
Mrazek
Quick

 

[Magnum23]

I was looking and thinking that NYR is the perfect landing spot for Kane, they can make it fit, have the assets and can reunite Kane and Panarin.

That would be sick. As a hockey fan, reuniting Kane and Panarin would be a treat

 

[tinfish]

I think most of ya'll are aiming too high. I'd be happy with a Middleton type dman. Forsberg type to back up the goaltending. Run with that and see what we got

 

[CycloneSweep]

I think most of ya'll are aiming too high. I'd be happy with a Middleton type dman. Forsberg type to back up the goaltending. Run with that and see what we got

Even that is aiming too high

 

[tinfish]

I still want John Gibson.

Theres no way Holland could make a trade like that happen. We have to accept that we are Oiler fans and our destiny is to suffer

 

[nexttothemoon]

If you look at goal differential, which is generally a pretty good barometer of how good a team is, the Flames are absolutely contenders this year, along with the other three teams Button mentions. I know we’re all Oiler fans, but there’s a reason the Flames are in that conversation, they’ve had a really good year.

I think adding Paul and a defender will get this team into a really good spot to make a decent playoff run. I’m an optimist, but I’m getting a good feeling about them, they’re starting to put together some really good games, the analytics are trending positive for the first time in years, I think people are going to be shocked by how well the Oilers play down the stretch.

I won't be shocked because I've been saying for a while this is a playoff team and teams ahead of them were due for a shitstorm of injuries/slumps. The issue with the Oilers was bad coaching + injuries + playing a goalie who is past his prime that's quickly falling apart.

They fixed the coaching... and the injuries are slowly sorting themselves out (knock on wood more don't happen)… and the 3rd variable is the biggest issue which is playing Smith in net when he's a coin flip at best to put in a decent performance. He's too big of a gamble to continually have in net and Skinner-Koskinen is the better option... but of course the GM and coach have to see that and need to have the balls to say to Smith that for the good of the team he must take a MUCH reduced role in playing.

I definitely feel if they are healthy they can make a lot of noise in the playoffs and right now I think only the Avs are clearly better than them in the West which is their biggest obstacle to getting a shot at going all the way to the finals.

 

[nexttothemoon]

If you had to rank the following goalies in terms of how aggressively you would pursue them, how would you put them? Depending on who you ask on HFB, their value can range from huge to you'd have to pay me to take them.

Hart
Blackwood
Gibson
Murray
Grubauer
Binnington
Mrazek
Quick

1 Skinner

2 Mrazek (bounce back candidate)
3 Quick
4 Binnington
5 Grubauer (another bounce back candidate)
6 Hart

7 Koskinen

8 Gibson
9 Blackwood

10 Mike Smith

11 Murray

That's how I'd rank those 8 in comparison to what the Oilers already have.

Skinner is better than all those choices though since he's already on the team and costs nothing in assets to retain.

I'd actually target either Stolarz or Driedger if they are available as I think both those goalies are good youngish goalies capable of becoming starters (even though Driedger is having a poor season this year).

Going forward with Skinner-Stolarz would be a great young duo imo.