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Louis Cypher

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Said it before, saying it again and yes it is a hill I am prepared to die on. S. Skinner is not the guy who will backstop this team to a championship. You can’t rely on hoping to get “good skinner” on a game to game basis. The defense has holes too and it’s another vortex of mystery. We’ll see what kind of patience Bowman has and what he does to manage the cap.
I'm willing to give him 20 games to prove he can steal games for this team and not just lose them because of his shit play. There does need to be a backup plan which I don't think we have.
 

Mr Positive

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If the plan is still accrue cap we'd have to send someone down of similar cap hit if we wanted to sign Shattenkirk or whoever

I doubt we are doing this. We just signed Dermott. I don't see why we would sign anyone else at this point. It's not like one game would shake up the roster
 

Davo Ikinzom

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At this point two of those three might be somewhat useful with Nurse and allow us to play Emberson with Kulak who I think would help him to grow his game.

Nurse can’t do that.

It's becoming clear Nurse will sewer any pairing he's on. It wouldn't have mattered at all who his partner was last night, he still makes those braindead plays all on his own.
 
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Louis Cypher

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If any team can pick him up and send him down without going through waivers why wouldn't they. Hes a free 2nd round prospect. I will be pissed if that happens.
 

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Nurse - Bouchard
Ekholm - Emberson
Kulak - Shattenkirk/Giordano

That's probably what I would run. Even though Giordano is old, he is the best one defensively.
There is no way, no how we should be saddling Bouchard with Nurse.

Man what I meant was WHEN Barrie was on Edmonton
But you said Nurse would be better if we had Barrie playing with him.
 
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McTonyBrar

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There is no way, no how we should be saddling Bouchard with Nurse.


But you said Nurse would be better if we had Barrie playing with him.
Then that was my mistake. What I meant was the last top 4 Dman Nurse played with was Barrie and he was decent with him. THAT time, Barrie was a top 4 Dman lol
 
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McHelpus

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There is no way, no how we should be saddling Bouchard with Nurse.


But you said Nurse would be better if we had Barrie playing with him.
Why not? Having Bouchard on his pairing will force Nurse to manage the puck less. If Bouchard can't be effective without Ekholm, they need ro seriously reconsider giving him big money.
 
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Davo Ikinzom

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Why not? Having Bouchard on his pairing will force Nurse to manage the puck less. If Bouchard can't be effective without Ekholm, they need ro seriously reconsider giving him big money.

Nurse is a disaster, you don't give him more minutes. I'm starting to agree with Cloned, they should put him on the 3rd pair and tell him to figure his game out.
 

McHelpus

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Nurse is a disaster, you don't give him more minutes. I'm starting to agree with Cloned, they should put him on the 3rd pair and tell him to figure his game out.
I already gave up with Nurse figuring it out. All I'm saying is give him the best RD on the team to try and reduce his mistakes. That's why I'm pairing Ekholm - Emberson together, because Ekholm can cover for him.
 

MoontoScott

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Said it before, saying it again and yes it is a hill I am prepared to die on. S. Skinner is not the guy who will backstop this team to a championship. You can’t rely on hoping to get “good skinner” on a game to game basis. The defense has holes too and it’s another vortex of mystery. We’ll see what kind of patience Bowman has and what he does to manage the cap.
I think most posters on this site have arrived at the same conclusion that you have.

Some nights you get "Good Skinner" and some nights you get "Bad Skinner" but its fairly clear that he is never going to be an elite goaltender and that's what you have to work with. Unfortunately, there isn't much cap room to play with.

Once again, the team is going to hope that you can simply outgun the opposition with 2 of the best players in the World. Let's hope Mc-D can work his magic out there again this season. I thought that in the game against the Jets he looked frustrated. It's a heavy load, even for the best player in the World.
 
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brentashton

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This organization is so bad with young players
Another team also out a claim in for him in this latest go round. In order to send him to Bako which was always the goal he had to go back on waivers.

Serious Question.

Aside from his Calgary time and reputation, which player best fits? I seriously don’t know, just asking…
 

CanadasTeam99

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I'm willing to give him 20 games to prove he can steal games for this team and not just lose them because of his shit play. There does need to be a backup plan which I don't think we have.
He stole (kept us int he games) 2 of them by my count last year.

One game was in Winnipeg. One was in New York. It is verrrrry verrrrrry rare for him to do this.

Another team also out a claim in for him in this latest go round. In order to send him to Bako which was always the goal he had to go back on waivers.


Serious Question.

Aside from his Calgary time and reputation, which player best fits? I seriously don’t know, just asking…
Giordano is COOKED. Hell no please.
 
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Bryanbryoil

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f*** it, sign Kneeordano and play him alongside Nurse all year long as punishment for him taking out Connor's knee.

All joking aside, Jultz can't be any worse than what we have after Bouch on the right side can he?
 
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guymez

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f*** it, sign Kneeordano and play him alongside Nurse all year long as punishment for him taking out Connor's knee.

All joking aside, Jultz can't be any worse than what we have after Bouch on the right side can he?
That literally made me laugh out loud. :laugh:
 
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McTonyBrar

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Broberg another assist tonight. Watching him play.... And how good he is all over the ice makes me question what the flying f*** Oilers management were thinking when they played Vinny over Broberg last year until the playoffs
 
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