Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | If Babcock is Our New Coach Will Players Want to Come Here?

[BobbytheBrain]

Hell yes to Tuch.

Hopefully he takes his playoff prowess to the Leafs

 

[Forgot About Drai]

Think Canes can pull a fast one on teams selling high on him. Guy had like 80% offensive zone starts/on the fly starts in playoffs to be able to keep his head above water.

Very interesting. I really liked him when I watched, underlyings not as strong. I guess if Carolina is selling, its def buyer beware. Shrewd franchise.

 

[Tarus]

This is Stan Bowman/ Jeff Jackson after all. Isn't that exactly what they did with Skinner? (except at a higher cap hit lol)

Yeah, it is. Even worse, they took an expiring contract and turned it into one with extra years on it. You can at least argue that Ristolainen gets you out of the regrettable consequences of the Nurse contract sooner, the worst part being you have to have Ristolainen on your roster for a couple of years.

The summer rumors of Nurse for Jarry made a bit of sense, the deal they actually made was just horrific for the franchise.

 

[McDrai]

Great.

Well then

 

[Oilhawks]

They’re folding the franchise? That would be big

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Great.

This actually makes sense, they have $20M in cap space, with only Lappierre as an RFA, and whatever OV decided to do.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

probably Tuch

 

[McTonyBrar]

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

probably Tuch

Watch it somehow be Robertson lol.

 

[McDrai]

Well the 2 options I was hoping for (McMann and Tuch) are now off the table. July 1 will now be a snoozefest.

 

[ToeMcDrag83]

Washington casually always seems to snake us in the rumour to actuality department eh? D. Strome, C. Brown, J. Kyrou, Now Tuch hahaha

 

[94 Oil Drops]

Well the 2 options I was hoping for (McMann and Tuch) are now off the table. July 1 will now be a snoozefest.

Its frustrating seeing teams make big moves while the Oilers are well... er... hiring a long past expired Mike Babcock.

 

[Seachd]

You just told me today that you can guarantee they're getting a good player back for Nurse. Why would you want Risto then? haha.

That's a quick turnaround from guaranteed good player to bad player that doesn't even help the team.

 

[McDoused]

Why the hell is Washington loading up on RW's? They want WIlson / Kyrou / Tuch ?

 

[oobga]

Hopefully he takes his playoff prowess to the Leafs

Montreal having insane luck in net made a lot of players look bad, on Tampa and Buffalo. Tuch was pretty good in the first round still. He has actually scored a GWG in 10% of his career playoff games too. McDavid 5%, Drai 8%. I actually remember him as usually being a standout in playoffs as a solid 2-way forward, even with Vegas when he was much more of a depth guy, he didn't really break out until he was with Buffalo.

 

[Oilhawks]

Why the hell is Washington loading up on RW's? They want WIlson / Kyrou / Tuch ?

They're desperately trying to keep making the playoffs even though they're ripe for a rebuild, so will make some nonsense moves to do so

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Why the hell is Washington loading up on RW's? They want WIlson / Kyrou / Tuch ?

They can probably play both sides, and likely because OV is just retiring.

 

[Soundwave]

Oilers are totally going to trade for DeBrusk aren't they.

 

[McHelpus]

They can probably play both sides, and likely because OV is just retiring.

Is he actually retiring?

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Is he actually retiring?

Who knows, he's without a contract and 40 yrs old, so this might be the case.

 

[SDig14]

I like Tuch, but giving him 8 years and close to $11 million per year does not seem wise.

 

[sepHF]

is there any world where we would have the assets to grab Marchenko from CBJ?

 

[foshizzle]

Oilers are going to overpay Kapanen lol

 

[McTonyBrar]

Why aren't we trying to get Nurse out there more

 

[Draiskull]

Well the 2 options I was hoping for (McMann and Tuch) are now off the table. July 1 will now be a snoozefest.

Dont sleep through the "Return of The E.Kane"