Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | The Oilers Biggest Roster Need Is?

[Spawn]

Knob has to make it a priority to get other players going and not just fixate on McDrai-ing himself to victory on any given night.

Other players need to be given time to play with McDavid, like Podkolzin on the top line I'm good with.

Skinner and Arvidsson should get looks there too. Same with PP Unit 1. Same with Kapanen now he should get some looks with Draisaitl immediately if not even McDavid.

All that "tough love" shit never works. You demote a guy to the 4th line here and their offense just goes down the toilet.

You have to be flexible. It can't just be RNH + Hyman are the only two players on the roster that ever get any time with McDavid or on the PP. If our PP was lights out, that would be one thing but Hyman and RNH are terrible on the PP right now. Give someone else a chance to score an easy goal or two and maybe, just maybe that gets them going.

I agree to an extent. RNH/Hyman absolutely should not keep getting run out there on the top line/top PP unit. Not while they are being so ineffectual. And we should keep trying options with McDavid/Drai (either together or apart) until we find combinations that work. But at the same time, the forward group on this team outside of those two needs to stop just going out there and trying to survive their shifts while waiting for McDavid/Draisaitl to do everything. Time for these guys to take some pride in their game and start pushing the matter. Some of these players need to get going themselves and stop relying on McDavid and Draisaitl to do absolutely everything on this roster.

 

[McTonyBrar]

Where is this

Earlier in this thread

 

[BarDownBobo]

To me the sleeper target might be Artem Zub, mainly with the Staios link and how heavily he was involved with the Oilers picking Beau Akey when he was here. Could see a deal where he’s the center piece going back, and Zub is a guy who could have an Ekholm like impact. Perfect partner for Nurse imo.

 

[Burnt Biscuits]

Fowler is done though. Hes got nothing left.

I'll agree he has been bad, but I can't tell if he actually sucks or if his competitive spirit has been crushed from being on a crap team for so long.

OEL was awful having played on a bad team for so long, but made a slow comeback. Hampus Lindholm also skewed not to bad, but I'd say mediocre to a central pillar to a dominant B's team for the 2 seasons prior to this one.