Spector is a dirty taint. I'm certain it was him on The Fan in Calgary the other day laughing at Oiler fans thinking we have a shot at Karlsson. He runs down the players. He runs down the fans. That are hole needs to be banished from the Oilers.
Rishaug had a run of breaking every story with MacT back in the day. He was the man for a while. For sure, he has just fallen back to reporter that doesn't really add anything aside from summary of news you can get anywhere. Gregor, yeah, just a facilitator now of getting other people to talk. Any time Gregor tries to break news himself he gets embarrassed. Spec is now just a guy that vents his biases and tries to troll fans for engagement
I guess what would be more interesting is what other guys are being asked about and how often each guy is being asked about.
I think what's scary is he is the chair for the Edmonton PHWA chapter. You'd think the chair would actually be one of the better guys in the City with the most connections throughout the league.
Karlsson isn't getting scratched even the deal is 95% finalized. EK also doesn't need to be traded right now and SJ can wait til the draft to make the change.
What odds would you give Karlsson if being a top 5 defenseman in the league right now? What odds would you give Bouchard of being a top 5 defenseman right now?
Lol what? Schaefer is a dime a dozen prospect who projects to be a 3rd liner. He is under a PPG on a team with 5 guys above PPG. He’s being outplayed by a 5th round pick in the same draft.
Sometimes the Chair of volunteer organizations is the guy who has the time to do it.
I thought that was Stauffer, salivating while describing his beloved "Mediteranean chicken pizza."
I think the main reason should be unlike 5 or 6 months ago you don't have to give up assets to trade him.
He's not a dime a dozen prospect. Nit many guys have his combination of size and skill. Sure his numbers haven't blown up like we had hoped, but if he was that disappointing I don't think we would be getting calls about him.
Spector's not 'with' the Oilers. He's a columnist for a national network paid to give his opinion on the Oilers from that objective perspective. It's the loud opinions that he gets paid to have not to be a sycophant for the hockey team. He's often wrong - Larsson re-signing; right on Puljujarvi - first media guy to say this relationship was heading to a split and debated endlessly the perceived value many Oiler fans hold about the player based on advanced stats that defy his actually production. Karlsson is rightly a long shot with retention level requirements that have never been seen in the NHL's 100+ year history. Doesn't mean it won't happen but he sees it as highly unlikely, rather pragmatic.
But if he stays healthy and crosses the 100pt mark winning the Norris the number of teams that might be interested in his services could double.
Possibly. How much skill can he really have with numbers like that? Even at the draft he projected as a 3rd liner. He got overhyped here for a bit from a hot start. High floor low upside.
It’s all a game anyways. They pretend now isn’t the best time in hopes of a better offer.
This is how it always happens.
Haha. Seattle is stacked and made massive trade deadline acquisitions including hedging on Arizona returning an elite prospect to fortify their elite forward group and run at winning the WHL's first Memorial Cup in forever. Judging his production only relative to his team is short sided in weighing out the future of this player. Laughable to make a future projection based on this situation. But again, you're the noted draft expert that declared Broberg a bust as an age 20 prospect so the rep is earned.
