Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread: "Wheat Kings and Pretty Things, Let's See What The Expansion Draft Brings

[Cloned]

McCann and Dickinson aren’t world beaters but they’d add speed and skill to the lineup.

Why do the Oilers never acquire the obvious players? The ones that you know will help your team. It’s been 15 years of this, never acquiring these types and watching other teams get useful players for nothing while we struggle to get blood from a stone.

 

[belair]

That Ladd trade is all evidence needed for a competent organization to fire Holland.

Although we’re not a competent organization.

That Ladd trade has absolutely no impact on the Edmonton Oilers. There's literally no connection to be made.

 

[McAsuno]

McCann and Dickinson aren’t world beaters but they’d add speed and skill to the lineup.

Why do the Oilers never acquire the obvious players? The ones that you know will help your team. It’s been 15 years of this.

because they prefer plugs like Shore

 

[BigTime99]

Guessing edmonton was on his no trade list and or Holland didn't like his caphit and injury history.

I'm not beat up about that one

Not sure where i read it but Oilers are on tarasenkos list on teams he would accept a trade too. Hes got 2 years left on his deal wht better way to ensure u get another huge contract by padding your stats riding shotgun to 2 best centers in the league.

 

[North]

Too many fans drink the koolaid here, so no, people are not seeing how crazy this is.

All Holland had to do was literally wait until today in order to get a much better deal for Keith.

What do people think Jones and a third are worth?

Seriously?

I get people are stuck on the retention but Chicago wasn’t retaining under any circumstance unless we gave them a player like Samorukov, McLeod, or Bear.

 

[Seachd]

Really don't know why something wouldn't get done if 4 teams were interested in the full cap hit. Maybe Tarasenko squashed them.

 

[belair]

They’ll be in for a surprised when they see he sucks next year

I definitely would rather have Zadorov

Don't get me wrong. None of those players are game-breakers by any means. But Jones would clear waivers if he wasn't related to Seth. He's terrible.

 

[oXo Cube]

I would say that 3 pretty decent draft picks just to dump a contract is a pretty hefty price.

But i suppose thats a matter of opinion.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

That Ladd trade has absolutely no impact on the Edmonton Oilers. There's literally no connection to be made.

Ice time, schmice time.

Duncan Keith is a washed up ineffective player.

Andrew Ladd is a washed up ineffective player.

See the comparison?

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

McCann and Dickinson aren’t world beaters but they’d add speed and skill to the lineup.

Why do the Oilers never acquire the obvious players? The ones that you know will help your team. It’s been 15 years of this, never acquiring these types and watching other teams get useful players for nothing while we struggle to get blood from a stone.

This org hasn’t evolved since the early 90s.

 

[North]

because they prefer plugs like Shore

Yes Shore who’s going to most likely be the 13th forward.

 

[McVirginOil]

People that say analytics isn’t the end all be all using ice time as the end all be all

 

[CycloneSweep]

Again a couple trades were done today. I am not going to freak out or be upset about it until summer is done. There are a ton of players out there that can fill those holes.

 

[Cloned]

because they prefer plugs like Shore

Seriously think there’s a bad case of “smartest man in the room” syndrome going on at Oilers HQ. Deliberately ignoring the obvious good assets and thinking they can do better with the non traditional route.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

McCann and Dickinson aren’t world beaters but they’d add speed and skill to the lineup.

Why do the Oilers never acquire the obvious players? The ones that you know will help your team. It’s been 15 years of this, never acquiring these types and watching other teams get useful players for nothing while we struggle to get blood from a stone.

 

[North]

Ice time, schmice time.

Duncan Keith is a washed up ineffective player.

Andrew Ladd is a washed up ineffective player.

See the comparison?

That you’re making a false equivalency? Yes.

 

[Burnt Biscuits]

Holland is a good 15 years past his prime. All we can do is hope that he doesn't completely soil this team

He won a Stanley Cup past his prime, that's cool.

 

[CycloneSweep]

People that say analytics isn’t the end all be all using ice time as the end all be all

I mean yeah comparing a guy who has played 4 NHL games in the past 2 seasons to a guy who is still an NHL regular makes a ton of sense.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

That you’re making a false equivalency? Yes.

And you’re making excuses for an incompetent organization being led by a senile man.

 

[soothsayer]

Seriously think there’s a bad case of “smartest man in the room” syndrome going on at Oilers HQ. Deliberately ignoring the obvious good assets and thinking they can do better with the non traditional route.

Always been the case. And it's pretty much always the case that the guy who thinks his gut is a genius also thinks he's the smartest guy in the room.

 

[North]

People understand the off season isn’t over yet right?

Some deals are probably going to occur after the expansion draft.

The end is not near yet.

 

[Cloned]

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I had faith in you Ken.

 

[North]

And you’re making excuses for an incompetent organization being led by a senile man.

Take a break man.

 

[CycloneSweep]

People understand the off season isn’t over yet right?

Some deals are probably going to occur after the expansion draft.

The end is not near yet.

Whaaa every gm in the league sucks except the on a who made trades today. Fact

 

[McDrai]

I would say that 3 pretty decent draft picks just to dump a contract is a pretty hefty price.

But i suppose thats a matter of opinion.

It is a very steep price to pay. I guess in hindsight, if we didn't deal the 2 second round picks for AA as well as the Keith trade, we would have an extra 11 mil to play with. Although Holland with an extra 11 mil would probably do more harm than good. It would be like giving a 10 year old 100 dollars to buy groceries.