If that's the case, then there really shouldn't be an issue, he'll stay on LTIR till the end of the season. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think Kane is going to rock the boat and try and come back with one week left in the season.
i believe that too, I hope we're both right. Kane coming back a week or 2 early and basically screwing over his teammates doesn't seem like a good move for him at all. I don't see what that does for him at all.
I bet your view of him changes after you see him play for Florida. The guy always had the tools and the talent, he chased money and ended up on a bad team. Jones, as the number 3 D on FLA, behind Ekblad and Forsling, is pretty damn good imo. At 7 million, I bet he ends being a really nice piece for the Panthers for the next 5 years.
9-10M to fill mostly depth positions isn't much of an ask. As I said if they want different elements it would requiring shipping out players like Kane, Henrique, or Arvidsson who are all making middle 6 money on expiring contracts, if they want a different element to the team.
$9 - $10m? Even optimistic projections for those extensions look like $9m + $2m. Add in Gibson at $6.4m and that's just shy of the whole $18m.
He is clearly out until Playoffs and the team is playing games with the media so they don't get in trouble. It's been like this since day 1.
It is frustrating that guys like Askarov, Logan, Hill etc. all seemed to be nowhere on the Oilers radar in the past several years even when the Oilers goaltending situation was unsettled. As someone else posted yesterday, leaving something critical to success to the last moment (when you don't even know what cap space you have to deal with) certainly leaves something to be desired. Where was the scouting staff on goaltenders like this?
OMG he is clearly out until playoffs. How gullible are you guys. Enough with the Kane stuff.....
You could have probably stopped after five words.
edmontonjournal.com
Feels like a troll of the organization and a f*** you to the fans because it's funny? I don't really know, but it's f***ing annoying.A tale of past regrets that the Edmonton Oilers ought to avoid repeating: 9 Things
Before the Edmonton Oilers decide to move on from Stuart Skinner, they ought to review the franchise's past history
1.I was in Rexall Place for most of Devan Dubnyk’s starts as an Edmonton Oiler. So, I lived through the exciting early days and the heady 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons when it looked as though this franchise had developed their very own home-grown starting goaltender for the first time since Grant Fuhr. But then it all fell apart. 2013-14 paled comparison to the couple campaigns previous for Dubnyk. His SV% went from .921 to .850 and fans panicked. Seemingly every night on our drive home we would hear callers on the post-game show lament that “Dubnyk had to have that one”, “We will never win with him” and “Trade him”. Sound familiar? The was the seed that sprouted the infamous quote from Craig MacTavish: “If you have to ask the question, you know the answer.” Not long after, Dubnyk was indeed traded.
As we know now, after Dubnyk hit rock bottom, he then more than resurrected his career. He went on a run that delivered six consecutive seasons with SV%’s over .913. Dubnyk won a Masterton and earned four all-star berths. He was a Vezina finalist in 2014-15. And as for the franchise that had drafted and developed Dubnyk, it became a depressing “what could have been.” Fast forward to 2025 and Stuart Skinner. That is how long it took the franchise to develop another goalie close to Dubnyk’s quality. I wish Oilers fans would reflect on that experience with Dubnyk vis-à-vis Stuart Skinner. Remember: Dubnyk was 26 when he hit his rough spot. Which is coincidentally exactly how old Stuart Skinner is today. He is still a relatively young goalie, on a value contract.
Yet, almost nightly, these days, I read calls for the Edmonton Oilers to replace Skinner.
Well…be careful what you wish for.
Completely ignoring the fact Dubnyk reinvented himself after falling rock bottom and having Sean Burke perform CPR on his career
Think Schwartz can do that?
Why is media so fixated on sheltering Skinner? We just want a goalie to push him [maybe even usurp] because his inconsistency is costing the Oilers points. Plus Dubnyk is way more athletic than Skinner. Skinner is just big and heavy.
