Bryanbryoil
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Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Savoie Gets an Audition With the Trade Deadline Looming
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Burnt Biscuits
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This is all true and Savoie's impact on the Bako goal differential when he is on the ice contrasted against the team when is off the ice is very impressive for a rookie, but when I watched Holloway I could tell with near 100% certainty that he would make the NHL and be a difference maker, I'm still a fuzzy on Savoie, I've yet to see those moments that scream to me that he is a sure fire NHL player.
Or need to see what we have before thinking of trading him.
TopShelfGloveSide
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That’s interesting. Even when Savoie was struggling to put up points at first, I thought this kid is going places. He looked to adapt so fast to the pro game. Now he’s the best player on the team as a rookie.
Holloway looked decent his first year but to me didn’t stand out nearly as much until his 2nd / 3rd stints in Bakersfield.
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Skinner mcjesus hyman
Pod drai Savoie
Kane nuge arvi
Jan Rico Brown
Crazy if Savoie works with Drai! Best center depth I've seen, a Hathaway or Frédéric would male this team crazy. Who cares about being tough if you're in the other teams end 80 percent of the game.
Pod drai Savoie
Kane nuge arvi
Jan Rico Brown
Crazy if Savoie works with Drai! Best center depth I've seen, a Hathaway or Frédéric would male this team crazy. Who cares about being tough if you're in the other teams end 80 percent of the game.
Burnt Biscuits
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IMO Kapanen is the weakest link on the team he had the worst 5v5 GF% in STL at 12.5% in 10 GP and in EDM he has the 4th worst 5v5 GF% at 43.6%. The 3 players with a worse 5v5 goal differential are Dermott, D. Ryan, & J. Brown who are all not with the team anymore. Kapanen has enough skill to stick, but has random stupid moments that are the kind of lack of attention to detail things that coaches hate. IMO Perry and C. Brown are well clear of him just based on level of play this season, Janmark is less clear, but he's definitely a prominent and trusted player for the coaching staff to eat tough PK and defensive minutes.LTIR said:
How Savoie stacks up against him is TBD, but his AHL play is worthy of a chance at stealing a job.
brentashton
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His name always reminds me of an old cartoon that was on TV, as a kid.
Now back to regular programming.
Now back to regular programming.
Jimmi McJenkins
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You probably don't know anything about him, much like literally all the players on this team....I hope this reality doesn't upset you lol
I get the Savoie callup to, one, give him a taste of the NHL rewarding him for strong play in the AHL or, two, giving him a trial run to see if he can take a top 6 spot and eliminate the need at the deadline (although I think it's too late for that) but I don't know if throwing him into the fire on a brutal road trip is the right time. I'm assuming that he'll get a shot on Draisaitl's wing right off the bat.
Also, if the Podkolzin-Draisaitl-Savoie line is actually happening, this means that Skinner gets pushed out of the top 6 again? I don't know what more that guy could do to keep his spot. He's not only scoring goals but he's working hard and hasn't been a defensive liability to my eye.
Said it many times, Knob is a great defensive coach but he's not so good with the line combinations and getting the most out of his offensive guys.
Also, if the Podkolzin-Draisaitl-Savoie line is actually happening, this means that Skinner gets pushed out of the top 6 again? I don't know what more that guy could do to keep his spot. He's not only scoring goals but he's working hard and hasn't been a defensive liability to my eye.
Said it many times, Knob is a great defensive coach but he's not so good with the line combinations and getting the most out of his offensive guys.
LTIR
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Skinner could be getting bumped up (or down) to McDavid line. Also, Arvidson and even Kapanen were getting wing time with Drai+Podz so Skinner never really had a lock on it.
He will still have good linemates even if he gets bumped out of 'top 6'
Jimmi McJenkins
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I think we're making too much of Savoie with Draisaitl at practice, because McDavid isn't even back, so they can't really run through the full lines.
Louis Cypher
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Still need a right shot center. Someone has to take draws on the other side. Preferably with size and who can win them.
CantHaveTkachev
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I wonder if their gonna give Savoie a taste before the TDL cause after that, it might be tough to get into the lineup with the additions they (hopefully) bring in
It's crazy how many depth guys we have. In that Bowman interview it seems like players want more ice time. Add Savoie, Kane, possible TDL addition and it starts to get really clogged up.
I wish a lot of this stuff was figured out sooner, It seems like their is a lot of unknown this late in the season.
F- and that would be generous.
What would be even more crazy is if they added a better top 6 winger for Mcdavid. Play a rotation or mix of Skinner/Savoie/Perry with Drai
This 4 nations tourney is really showing that Nuge is dragging down Mcadvid's play a little bit
Now that's a deep team!
Fourier
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Take Draisaitl out of the picture:
Nuge and McDavid: 358 minutes CF% 58.33 SF% 57.83 GF 17 GA 15 GF% 53.13 xGF% 58.30 SCF% 60.24 HDCF 61.15
McDavid without Nuge: 162 minutes CF% 52.27 SF% 49.69 GF 6 GA 14 GF% 30.00 xGF% 51.57 SCF% 50.69 HDCF 50.82
Forgot About Drai
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Id be storming Oilers HQ. What do you mean? That would be the worst TDL possible lol
Oilslick941611
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is it confirmed he's going to play some games? I was under the impression he was called up because teams with players in the 4 nations tournament were able to call up 2 extra players for practice to compensate for missing players/extra rest fr those who came back.
oXo Cube
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Same thing I've said for 4 years now:
No judgement until the deadline is past but if management doesn't sell everything not bolted down to improve the playing roster for the short term then they should get the hell out of the way so we can find a group who will.
They've only actually done that 1 of those 4 years.
No judgement until the deadline is past but if management doesn't sell everything not bolted down to improve the playing roster for the short term then they should get the hell out of the way so we can find a group who will.
They've only actually done that 1 of those 4 years.
He’s not an oiler fan, so that’s what he’s hoping for
FlameChampion
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Have to agree.
I think Knoblauch has been a great defensive coach along with Coffey.
But I think hes done a pretty poor to average job with the forwards. The forward group should be more productive than they are. When he was first hired he talked a lot about empowering players and finding roles and I honestly don’t see a lot of that going on. Either a player fits into his system or they don’t. Pretty standard for coaches really. Which is fine I guess, but it doesn’t really match his message when he was first hired.
I don’t think he’s really got a good amount of forwards going on this team. And I just see him going the McDrai route when hes down, pretty much the same as every other coach.
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