Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Where's The Beef?

[Fourier]

If ROR was right handed I would be all over it. I just don't see another left handed center being in our radar.

If the option is ROR or Ryan for a key draw no matter what side of the ice it is on I take ROR everyday of the week. Ryan is getting ice time partly out of loyalty and partly because he is a RHD who is good on faceoffs. But we have seen all season that that matters far less than what you can do after the draw.

That said I doubt ROR is a legitimate option for the Oilers. I am not sure he wants to play in Canada and I suspect that the cost would be very high. But if he was an option I can't see why any team would pass up a chance at at least seeing what it might take.

 

[Fourier]

Here is a trade that could create some additional space if Kane is LTIR'd for the whole year.

To Edmonton: Justin Kirkland

To Calgary: Something worth very little.

Send Brown down and then LTIR Kirkland. You have just increased the LTIR space by $775K.

Kirkland is out for the year with a knee injury. He is a 28 year old career AHL'er so Calgary may well be happy to just say so money.

 

[stewy04]

Do we only have a 2nd, 2rd, 6, and 7 for picks this year? I thought we had 2- 2nds and 2 3rds?

A 3rd

 

[Dazed and Confused]

My understanding of the cap space vs. LTIR is you just can't add them together/mix them to fit a trade.


I.e if the Oil have 2mil in accurred space, and 5.15mil from Kane on LTIR (so ~7mil in total) at the TDL, they could add someone making 1.75, burning through the accured cap space, and then add someone making 5. But they couldn't add a single person making 6mil, as that would require dipping into both pools. A move needs to fit in via the accurred cap space OR Kane's LTIR space.



As for Puckpedia, they're sorta technically correct, where as the Oil right now can only exceed the cap by 4mil via a single transaction. But that ignores the fact the Oil can make a paper transaction (like a recall) right before the move to tuck themselves up against the cap, and then have the full 5.125 is available to them.

 

[Mr Positive]

Here is a trade that could create some additional space if Kane is LTIR'd for the whole year.

To Edmonton: Justin Kirkland

To Calgary: Something worth very little.

Send Brown down and then LTIR Kirkland. You have just increased the LTIR space by $775K.

Kirkland is out for the year with a knee injury. He is a 28 year old career AHL'er so Calgary may well be happy to just say so money.

I bet a big reason J Brown is playing is so he can traded somewhere. He can play in the NHL but if Desharnais would get press boxed in the playoffs, Brown wouldn't be on the roster. But he's got a 3 year deal and he could tread water on a bad team where there's less possession in your favor and you can hit more

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Here is a trade that could create some additional space if Kane is LTIR'd for the whole year.

To Edmonton: Justin Kirkland

To Calgary: Something worth very little.

Send Brown down and then LTIR Kirkland. You have just increased the LTIR space by $775K.

Kirkland is out for the year with a knee injury. He is a 28 year old career AHL'er so Calgary may well be happy to just say so money.

Nope, doesn't work. If anything that kills their ability to continue accuring space.

Yes, the LTIR space is increased by 775k, but the team salary also increases by 775k, so there's no benefit.

Where that would hurt them is that added 775k lowers the cap space which is accuring more.

 

[Whoshattenkirkshoes]

I never liked Ty Smith. Didn’t like him as a prospect, didn’t like him when he was offered up as a trade target years later. Didn’t think his offence would translate to the NHL. Too reliant on a wrister from the blue line as a prospect. Thought his offensive skills were overrated. And always worried about his size without the necessary skill to overcome it.

That said I can never argue with the cost of FREE. And I always like the home town storyline possibly unlocking something in him. It’s just too bad he’s not a RHD, we’d have a room to take a Flyer on that side. We’re full up on the left side though, doesn’t seem like a fit.

It's funny because Holland had Ty Smith ahead of Hughes and behind Bouchard on his draft board

LMAO