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[Took a pill in Sbisa]

With the Leafs he was generally very solid defensively. He is really fast though.

Is this to say he hasn't been for the past 5 years since?

 

[Fourier]

Is this to say he hasn't been for the past 5 years since?

I saw a lot of him with the Leafs living out here. I can't say I watched a lot of him since he left so how he has been defensively over the last few years I can't really comment on.

I see St. Louis used him on the pk.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Could smell the alcohol on his breath in some of his interviews I swear. I knew something was off about that cat when he profusely thanked Holland for the signing.

Campbell went in for boozin’ and not mental health?

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

There's basically zero financial considerations for claiming Kapanen.

Claim Kapanen, keep both up, dip into LTIR and lose like $10-15k of deadline space.

Sure, but Josh Brown serves NO purpose at all, he shouldn't be here, so you can NOT go into LTIR and try an player out in a position where you could use him.

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

Campbell went in for boozin’ and not mental health?

I'm more curious which media member Number4 is to interviewing Campbell enough times to know

 

[CanadasTeam99]

Hyman been such a failure this year

Nothing Hopkins again

Two blatant calls trip to RNH and crosscheck to skinner to lose possession ignored

I can see why mtl gets alot of pps. Crowd whines like crazy

Oil also still refuse to break pucks out with support. Everybody loves flying the zone

Too many fly bys on the fire check too. We throw it in and stop up instead of hitting their dmen

Easy outs for Montreal

 

[Shizuka]

Wrong thread sorry

 

[McTonyBrar]

Wait nevermind. I bet we are watching Provorov more closely tonight

 

[McTonyBrar]

Gazzola says he's heard its gotten to the point where the Oilers may just have to make a drastic move on their defence quickly

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Wingers, depth scoring, goaltending, defense...

Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[Senor Catface]

It's too bad we'll never have a good GM.

 

[McFlash97]

Doesn't J Skinner have a NMC? I doubt he'd waive. He signed here for the sole purpose of winning the cup. And why would Chicago retain 50%.

He signed here to sit on McDrais back. He thought his status quo would be enough to get by. Terrible hockey intensity. Absolute one trick pony and his hands are pretty shot too at this point.

 

[Roof Daddy]

It is so crazy that Jeff Jackson looked brilliant on July 1st with all of the signings, and then later with the McLeod trade, and now in the early goings, it appears everyone of those transactions was a huge mistake. I was one of the many that applauded pretty much every move.

I will say that I found the Skinner signing strange though. It never made a ton of sense. I mean, it appeared to be a bargain for a guy who can score like he can, but for a team looking for the final piece of the puzzle to win the cup, prioritizing signing a guy who has never played in the playoffs in 14 seasons seemed like a strange target.

In the end, Skinner was a massive mistake, as it probably cost us Broberg (or at the very least, Holloway).

I also have no idea why we didn’t have Kane get surgery at earliest opportunity. If they wanted him to come back in season to get back into game shape and not gain year long LTIR cap space, then why wait so long to decide.

In hindsight, JJ pretty much butchered the off-season. What a turn of events.

I still like the Arvidsson signing though.

 

[McTonyBrar]

“Lots of chatter about Marcus Petterson. The Oilers are tied to him” - Ryan Rishaug GYB

 

[CanadasTeam99]

“Lots of chatter about Marcus Petterson. The Oilers are tied to him” - Ryan Rishaug GYB

I Beleive he has been Pitts best Dman playing top pair

 

[Zerotonine]

Gazzola says he's heard its gotten to the point where the Oilers may just have to make a drastic move on their defence quickly

Won't fix the fking goaltending issues

 

[VeteranPresence]

Gazzola says he's heard its gotten to the point where the Oilers may just have to make a drastic move on their defence quickly

This team and room need a shot in the arm to have any hope of getting out of what looks like a tailspin in the making. If that means paying a bit more now than in 30 games then so be it. Bowman deserves to be bent over for putting himself in this position so f*** it, make any and every future available.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Won't fix the fking goaltending issues

Since we might be talking to Dubas maybe Schwartzy is trying to get us to pick up Jarry?





Oh ffs!

 

[Soundwave]

“Lots of chatter about Marcus Petterson. The Oilers are tied to him” - Ryan Rishaug GYB

It's going to be funny when Nurse doesn't mesh well with Petterson and the Oilers resort back to the Kulak-Nurse combo that actually works and Petterson ends up on the 3rd pairing.

The whole "find a partner for Nurse" thing as far as I'm concerned looks pretty well resolved, you had that player all along (Kulak).

Darnell Nurse prior to the Toronto game had 7 points (2G, 5A) and was a +7 in the 8 games prior to getting hurt. How much better do you think Darnell Nurse is gonna be?

Forwards and goaltending need a bigger shake up.