Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Post Draft, Pre Free Agent Frenzy

[La Bamba]

Just looked at CapFriendly and Jesus this team is old as hell lol.

Five players 25 or under, sheesh.

Just goes to show that the time is now, we’ve spent years and years being a ‘young’ team

JJ has positioned the team to have its best season in the McD era going into next season

Besides, the most important thing is that the core drivers are prime age aka McDrai and Bouchard

 

[Louis Cypher]

We should take the Vegas Stone route and LTIR Kane until the end of the season. Of course the league will then step in and close that loophole.

 

[McJadeddog]

This is the last year on his deal, if Pittsburgh is not in a playoff spot at the deadline, yeah ... I ain't even joking. The Oilers should seriously think about this.

For Crosby I think the idea of coming to Canada and ending Canada's Cup drought, helping McDavid take the next step (kinda of like a Wayne + Mario teaming up for the 1987 Canada Cup moment) would be very appealing. It would be an incredible way to round out one of the greatest careers in NHL history. 4 Cups would also match Gretzky.

It would cement his legacy for sure. 8.7 cap hit at 50% retained could be made to work.

Oh yeah, if he is actually wanting another run, we'd be beyond foolish for not making a call to see if there was anything there. Obviously I have ZERO insider information, so this is pure speculation, but I've always thought Crosby wanted to be a Penguin for his entire career. I personally, again all speculation, would be quite surprised if he went anywhere else for even 1 game.

I agree though, that IF he was willing to entertain such an idea, Edmonton would be the obvious landing spot if they could make the money work somehow.

 

[Faelko]

Nah but it's a testament to the bad drafting that we don't have a bit more youth knocking on the door in case one of the old farts gets hurt.

Really just Broberg and Holloway isn’t it? The core is in its prime so that’s all I care about.

 

[McJadeddog]

We should take the Vegas Stone route and LTIR Kane until the end of the season. Of course the league will then step in and close that loophole.

I think it's pretty obvious that we are planning to do that exact thing. At least put him on LTIR until the trade deadline, when he has a modified 16 team NTC and we could potentially trade him. I would rather they LTIR him all year though, and just keep the player as he really is a unicorn when he is healthy.

 

[McTonyBrar]

His family was a big factor? I thought his family was in California still when we traded for him?

Nevertheless, glad his family likes Edmonton

 

[McJadeddog]

Yup, the west is ours for the taking. The only teams that improved are not enough of threat for us, not yet anyways. Utah and Nashville got better but I don’t think they’re as good as our team yet.

The main contenders were always going to be Avs, Vegas, Canucks and Stars. All of them got worse.

This season has to be about having a dominant regular season and have home ice in playoffs.

Truly believe that with the atmosphere in our building, it’s a difference maker.

I think the Avs are still clearly as good as we are, and maybe better. Vegas is still really good, but I think got worse. Canucks still a great team with great tending, which can be the deciding factor in any series. Stars are still a great young team as well, with lots of depth scoring and good tending.

Truthfully, of those 4, only Vegas got worse in any real way IMO.

 

[iCanada]

Credit to Rico's wife for being supportive. Anyone who's lived in FL or California knows that once you get sand between your toes, it's hard to leave especially if you can afford it. That's just the way it is. That's a good woman he's got there.

I wonder if some of our other young parents on the team reached out to the Henrique's on the family side. One thing Florida and California maybe don't have is a core of young families like we do.

Basically all our support guys are dads with young families. Hyman. Kane. Ekholm. Ryan. Nurse. RNH. Perry. Brown. Kane. Gagner. Even Skinner and Pickard. The Oilers wives and girlfriends group is probably one of the best young kids support groups in the league at this point, tbh.

That kind of thing on top of our world class education system probably helps sell Edmonton quite a bit to a young and wealthy mother tbh.

 

[K1984]

I think the Avs are still clearly as good as we are, and maybe better. Vegas is still really good, but I think got worse. Canucks still a great team with great tending, which can be the deciding factor in any series. Stars are still a great young team as well, with lots of depth scoring and good tending.

Truthfully, of those 4, only Vegas got worse in any real way IMO.

I'm not seeing it, especially now that Nichkushkin is probably a goner too.

Their team is Mackinnon, Rantanten, Makar, then a whole lot of mediocre with Lekhonen being the tallest midget of "the rest." Shaky goaltending, one dimensional/small defense, and a reliance on MacKinnon playing 23+ minutes at least every night to win them games.

They thrive on steam rolling teams for 5-7 min stretches where they rack up offence, but have difficulty sustaining for 60 minutes. I think Nashville is better than them as we sit here today to be honest.

 

[Frank the Tank]

I'm not seeing it, especially now that Nichkushkin is probably a goner too.

Their team is Mackinnon, Rantanten, Makar, then a whole lot of mediocre with Lekhonen being the tallest midget of "the rest." Shaky goaltending, one dimensional/small defense, and a reliance on MacKinnon playing 23+ minutes at least every night to win them games.

They thrive on steam rolling teams for 5-7 min stretches where they rack up offence, but have difficulty sustaining for 60 minutes. I think Nashville is better than them as we sit here today to be honest.

I don't know how the Avs coaches and players could trust Nichushkin going forward. That's two playoffs in a row where he couldn't keep his personal problems from yeeting himself out of Colorado's line-up with little to no notice. The resulting lack of depth scoring then causes the Avs to crash out of the playoffs shortly thereafter.

 

[Cloned]

His family was a big factor? I thought his family was in California still when we traded for him?

Nevertheless, glad his family likes Edmonton

Needed to have the wifey on board with staying.

I think the Avs are still clearly as good as we are, and maybe better. Vegas is still really good, but I think got worse. Canucks still a great team with great tending, which can be the deciding factor in any series. Stars are still a great young team as well, with lots of depth scoring and good tending.

Truthfully, of those 4, only Vegas got worse in any real way IMO.

They all got worse, pretty clearly too.

 

[La Bamba]

They might be saved by the division they're in but I'm genuinely not convinced the Kings are even a playoff team anymore.

That roster is gutted from where it was a few years ago.

They had so much promise when they took us to game 7 a few years ago. Blake has fumbled their retool badly

 

[McOilers97]

I think the Avs are still clearly as good as we are, and maybe better. Vegas is still really good, but I think got worse. Canucks still a great team with great tending, which can be the deciding factor in any series. Stars are still a great young team as well, with lots of depth scoring and good tending.

Truthfully, of those 4, only Vegas got worse in any real way IMO.

Not to look past them because I think they're good, but the Avs are incredibly top heavy now. Thin at forward, talented but kinda soft at D, and I think Georgiev is flat-out not very good.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Could the Oilers make a trade with UTAH for Shea Weber's rights and use his LTIR?

its pretty crazy that he's in the HOF despite still having a contract on the books.

 

[bellagiobob]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1808172993404981697

I see our last week of the regular season schedule is pretty hectic again this year, with two separate one game road trips to Wpg and SJ. That last game is just ridiculous.

 

[Juxta Position]

Just looked at CapFriendly and Jesus this team is old as hell lol.

Five players 25 or under, sheesh.

we've been through that "young, exciting team" phase and we were garbage, i like being the vetrean team now, maybe we'll even start getting the veteran treatment from the refs as well.

 

[Oilers88]

We should take the Vegas Stone route and LTIR Kane until the end of the season. Of course the league will then step in and close that loophole.

That's why Jackson traded our first next year- so the league can't force us to give it to Calgary as a penalty for cap circumvention. The guy is playing 4D chess.

 

[Spawn]

Could the Oilers make a trade with UTAH for Shea Weber's rights and use his LTIR?

Sadly LTIR doesn’t really work that way. Adding a guy who is LTIRetired would just end up being cap neutral.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Nah but it's a testament to the bad drafting that we don't have a bit more youth knocking on the door in case one of the old farts gets hurt.

teams of 23-24 year olds don't win cups

 

[Oilers]

How do we just keep Jackson playing both CEO Hockey Ops and GM role.

The guy is killing it.

 

[rec28]

Credit to Rico's wife for being supportive. Anyone who's lived in FL or California knows that once you get sand between your toes, it's hard to leave especially if you can afford it. That's just the way it is. That's a good woman he's got there.

The DVD finally worked!

 

[Canovin]

Watching Jeff Skinner highlights. He doesn't waste anytime after receiving a pass like RNH dusting off the puck or looking for a pass on an open net. He's going to have a career year playing next to McDavid

 

[La Bamba]

The DVD finally worked!

That DVD still has highlight clips of Sam Gagner from 2008 right?

 

[bellagiobob]

When we lost in game 7 this year, it was gutting, and I had the same feeling as I did in 2006, and figured that this was going to linger for a long time, but I now realize that a large part of the feeling I had in 2006 was that it was a one and done scenario, and while this years loss is still painful, it really has been reduced fairly quickly by the hope that we have another good opportunity to win it all next year.

 

[La Bamba]

Watching Jeff Skinner highlights. He doesn't waste anytime after receiving a pass like RNH dusting off the puck. He's going to have a career year playing next to McDavid

He looks built to play with McD, they should be pretty dynamic with Hyman cleaning up the trash