If he's willing to come here, he immediately makes the Oilers tougher to play against
Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread: The "Well, we're waiting!!!" Edition with a sprinkle of "Don't believe his lies."
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Its been traded for the city of New Jersey.
Sounds like Vegas is wasting no time.
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He seems to be done with Hawks ... They should either trade him or shut him down for the season.
The guy might even prefer a longer summer over another playoffs run with nothing left to prove
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I don't know that Kane who's apparently banged up missing an optional skate really means much. Given his comments as of late I don't know that he'll be attending many optional skates.
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Desharnais may sadly be the piece going the other way in a trade for EK or Parayko type upgrade.
Other GMs know about him now
Holland should just call up the Flyers and ask if Sanheim is available even tho he just signed an extension
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Good, cause last thing we need is another 3rd pairing D.
But, can we at least settle on need cause it seems we are all over the map.
Need a defensive D.
Nope, now a offensive RD.
Nope, now a LHD.
Nope, now a...
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The market is only taking shape. They weren't going to be in on O'Reilly or Horvat. There's a pool of d-men they are apparently looking at and forwards that include elites like P. Kane. Don't think they will burn high draft collateral on a rental UFA D, so as it looks, Boston is likely for Gavrikov.
We have excessively limited information and a ton of inconsistent gossip reporting on things. There's zero certainty at all for any team to get their player and certainly smaller likelihood for an Oilers team in LTIR, no cap money, and mediocre expensive contracts that have to move out.
People like to cite what Holland has done in the past and default into won't do anything. Can't forget he believes in elite defensemen and one trade deadline fished out an age 37 Chelios for multiple first round picks. He's been reported to have interest in this positional need since the off-season with Klingberg.
I think that's where the priority it and taking a run at Karlsson suggest that. And we're now starting to hear names like Parayko, maybe Ekholm as their teams fall into the playoff abyss. Those are all game changing names that would move the needle in this team's greatest area of deficiency.
We'll see but sounds like Holland's in a lot of talks trying to pitch out bad contracts and futures to move the needle for this team's players.
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That's an obvious statement. Oil need the assets for bigger game hunting, salary retention, and/or tweaking other secondary need areas like bottom six.
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Is there a limit on how many times a players salary can be retained?
A couple defensive forwards could be just as good as a D man. There more ways then 1 to improve the teams defence.
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Part of me wants to see them blow what's left of their prospect pool this year on a UFA.
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Agreed, but some here seem to think that Schenn will be an add. I don’t see it either
I argue this way before the end of last season. He always put up good numbers as a starter and mails it in as a backup
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Would not surprise me at all tbh. How many local guys do our fans rake over the coals all the time? Remember Holtby saying the same thing?
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Sent him to the Sharks for Karlsson. No retention.
Barrie + Campbell + Puljujarvi 2023 1st + 2 2nd and a prospect . I think Campbell would waive to go to the Sharks. I also think it easier trade then getting them to retain for the next 4 years
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Can't doubt your sources with people that know him. Will say context wise a couple years back he was on a much better team than the Oilers which won a Cup and looked like it might be a sustaining threat to chase more. Now the Blues look to be a team that's exited their winning window, and facing down either a re-tool around mid-20's forwards or a deeper rebuild.
It is an older defense corp so makes sense for the Blues looking to move out one of them. With a no-trade clause Parayko will drive his decision to play out his career in St. Louis or move on. Fit wise, his hometown Oil would be excellent and he would stabilize Nurse's game, imo, and lead a team now fully emerging into its winning window.
Sending Campbell in a package for Karlsson is the most obvious move, but Holland would never do that.
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