Maybe, I think it's more they'll have to float young guys in the mix, but having some NHL veterans to take spots if those guys struggle gives the team more options.
Interesting what Carolina did in FA and what players are in PTO's.
Tatar seems like a real good move for the Avs. With the chance of Landeskog coming back for the playoffs it won't really matter if Tatar fails come playoff time. He's a guy that is valuable in the regular season and that's what the Avs need right now.
Bunting was an interesting choice for them. He really wore out his welcome in TO. They never even offered him a contract. He seems to have a target on his back with the refs. Once that happens a player can really have a challenging time playing his game. Coaches have little patience with guys who draw bad penalties.
Top 4 on this team maybe 4 years ago. I like Vinny D but one of the * for him this coming year is staying healthy and staying in the line up on a regular basis. He is good at what he does. But asking him to play 20+ minutes a night every night might be a stretch.
Yeah but what does Larsson know about what Larsson wants. Kenny should have negotiated harder by locking him in a room with no food or water until he signed on the dotted line. Kenny failed and that's that.He gave Larsson two offers. One was a five year deal in the high 3's and the other was the identical deal the Kraken gave him. I'm just baffled how one iota of blame can be placed on Holland when Larsson decided he needed a fresh start away from the Oilers. It's like a guy proposing a long term commitment to a girl but she decides she doesn't want to be in that relationship any longer and wants to move on in another city. Then the guy is blamed for her refusing the proposal because her heart and mind are elsewhere.
Ken has done some good things and not so good things. Losing Larsson because his heart and mind were not committed to the city of Edmonton and the Oilers is something Kenny can't be blamed for. Here's some quotes from Larsson.
Kraken's Larsson ready for fresh start after losing father in Edmonton
Now a member of the Kraken, former Oilers defenceman Adam Larsson opened up about the sudden loss of his father over three years ago and the need to seek out a new beginning in Seattle.www.sportsnet.ca
Right from Larsson's mouth:
“I loved my time there. The guys, I made some lifelong friends there,” he said. “Even the negotiations… What Kenny (GM Holland) offered, it was really good. This was not about (money). It was about family.
“I just wanted to make the right decision. It had nothing to do with money."
What if close friend Oscar Klefbom, whose shoulder injury has jeopardized his career, had still been an active player in Edmonton? Would that have made the decision to leave more difficult?
“It’s tough to say,” Larsson allowed. “We all missed Klef when he was gone — he was such a big factor on the ice. And a great friend to me, coming into the team.
“But that thing still happened. It would have been tough (to return). The same memories would apply.”
If you want to blame Ken for something, then where he failed was letting him walk for nothing. This wasn't an 11th hour walkout, like Gaudreau did to Calgary. I'm sure Larsson let him know in advance he wasn't coming back so he could have gotten something for him, even if it was a lower pick for his rights. But the caveat was Seattle had a negotiating window and any UFA they plucked was considered their expansion pick, so instead of losing two players to them, it was one.
yeah why have players with fresh set of legs when you can have broken players well into their 30's whose wheels have fallen off
Soon be someone else negotiating anyways. When does Ken hand over the keys to the empire? After the deadline?
I get what you are saying but fresh legs don’t mean shit if you can’t actually play at an NHL level.
Lol holy cow.
I think they're just trying to generate preseason revenue with family ticket sales.
The LTIR team has a new name
Wasn't a lack of grit.
!) Zito will reconfigure.
I haven't been follow much of nhl outside of the big news but I don't recall any cap dumps over the summer. It's just not that common and to expect Kenny to run out and dump a bunch of cap when nobody is really buying cap would cost the team big assets or we would just be getting that same cap back but in a different player.
Oilers dumped Yams.
The Canes lost an entire first line to injury. That’s why they fizzled out.
No man I meant Broberg lol not Vinny. I think Broberg will be a top 4 defensive Dman in the mould of Larsson but more of a positional Dman who has great speed to stop players and a little bit of offensive upside. That's kind of what we need on our back end. We have enough offence in Nurse and Bouchard. Even Ekholm gives a lot of offence
So upon further review this makes a lot of sense. The below link however makes no sense
