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.

 

[Fourier]

Skinner is not a "boston" type player is the other problem.

"Boston" type players are a thing of the past. Their big addition this year was Elias Lindholm who is most definitely not a "Boston" type player.

When he is on Skinner scores. And that is an issue for the Bruins. They are 28th in GF and unlike the Oilers they can't really look at their roster and think it will turn around. Of course Skinner is a LW and right now he could either replace Geekie on the top line with Zacha and Pasta or slot into the 3LW spot beside Coyle and Frederic and replace Merkulov on the second pp unit.

And I am not saying that Boston is actively pursuing Skinner. Just that if things continue as they are he may well be willing to waive to get a chance for a more significant role.

 

[FlameChampion]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1859383883789107629

Wonder if this means Nurse is back.

Kinda thought they might send Dermott down honestly. Maybe Brown making an extra 250k hurts him here.

Hopefully we have 12F now but not sure about Arvidsson or Hyman

 

[harpoon]

If interested, and I don’t see why they would be, the Bruins can take their pick of Skinner or Arvidsson imo. As fans we should probably try to be patient a bit longer I guess, but neither of these guys has delivered on expectations.

 

[nexttothemoon]

I'm not a salary cap expert and I know the Oilers strategy was/is to accrue cap for a big deadline addition (or 2 or 3)... but I wonder how an older team like this holds up in the injury department and whether with all the bodies already slowly piling up on IR... will that have an effect on the amount of money that they can actually accrue between now and the deadline.

In theory accumulation of cap space looked like a doable plan... but Oilers were relatively injury free last season and this season with the team a year older and arguably some injury prone players now added... like Arvidsson... there's certainly no guarantee it will go as smoothly.

I'm thinking the pot of deadline money likely won't be as big as expected... especially since the team is struggling and very up and down and they aren't guaranteed to cruise into a playoff spot... so they may not be able to afford to just sit on "cap space" while the team meanders it's way all season long towards what might be a wildcard spot.

They might change strategies and just bite the bullet early and get pieces to help this roster now (or at least very soon) because between the offensive regression, questionable goaltending and injuries... this team likely is NOT going to have the type of "#1 contender" type year that everyone expected.

 

[ChasinWaterfalls]

Getting Jiricek seems like a no brainer. He's clearly disgruntled at being stuck behind all the RD in Columbus. He's cheap enough that we could send back a smallish contract like Stecher and maybe Ryan and it all fits easily and we can still accrue for a bigger move later

There is a zero percent chance Columbus gives up jiricek for stetcher and Ryan. His value is much much higher than that.