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Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | With Klingberg in the Mix Who Are Our 7D After the Deadline?
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Ludicrous speed, GO!
Hyman or Janmark-ish. He has the size, but he's more of a fights-through-checks and is good at board battles type, but he won't put guys on their asses or staple them to the boards like Podz can.
He was on regular waivers yesterday.
I imagine his agent talked to a lot of teams to gauge interest for him.
bobbythebrain
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The amount of castaways this team takes is just Saad
Idk much about Saad as a player aside from being able to produce goals in his career, but I’d welcome him on this team any day given the rumours and smoke is true about him being an Oiler.
I find it admirable he’s willing to walk away from good money just for a chance to play and win for a cup contending team.
There sails the years where this team was Unpopular destination #1 to play for. It’s nice to see. Come play with either McDrai and pot some goals, Saad.
I find it admirable he’s willing to walk away from good money just for a chance to play and win for a cup contending team.
There sails the years where this team was Unpopular destination #1 to play for. It’s nice to see. Come play with either McDrai and pot some goals, Saad.
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Shathar
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Very interesting/weird situation with Saad. I don't think anyone leaves money like that on the table without having a really damn good idea what happens next.
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Good GOD I hope he is joking!!!
What photos do you have of J Skinner that will have him waive his NMC?
I Saad it all along that this will entice Toews to join the Oilers
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I don't see Saad wanting to sign here. We are overloaded with LW as it is and we have Kane possibly coming
Klingberg picked us because we have a hole at RD
Klingberg picked us because we have a hole at RD
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Parayko is an interesting player in which the advanced stats don't tell the whole story. His actual "defensive" metrics, such as defending the rush, in zone defending, shot suppression, are all really good. His transition game and puck moving aren't great, he has a tendency to be like Nurse and hold on to the puck a bit too long when skating it up the ice. BUT he's got a bomb of a shot and scoring a ton this year. He's also more than half the year with 3 washed up players in Suter, and Leddy- his numbers have improved with Fowler. He's a real good top 4 Dman right now, but the question probably would be, do the Oilers want to spend 6 mill on him until 2030? Will his body hold up?
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Hossa was perennially in the Selke discussion, Rantanen is not getting any serious Selke consideration, nor does he PK. Also in CHI Toews, Kane, and Hossa could be and often were separated and each was capable of carrying a line or markedly improving the level of play of those around them.
Rantanen with MacKinnon (2022-25) has a GF% of 59.6
Rantanen without MacKinnon (2022-25) has a GF% of 45.9
MacKinnon without Rantanen (2022-25) has a GF% of 61.6
No debate from me that Rantanen is an elite winger, cream of the crop and I like him a ton more than Timo Meier or Patrick Laine who've been prior big ticket targets of many on this board, but I don't think he is capable of producing elite results away from a high end center, like if he was paired with RNH or Henrique I think his numbers would be hurt very significantly on top of that he plays Drai's spot on the PP.
You can argue why would we ever separate him from atleast one of McDrai which is not unreasonable, but if we did sign him, we'd be a very top heavy team with likely some weak bottom 6 lines that we might feel need the odd kick start from time to time and Rantanen wouldn't give us that flexibility.
Agreed. Andy Strickland also said there is anger from the Saad camp against St. Louis. Maybe that’s another reason why he wanted to leave
If Rantanen joins the Oilers, RNH is getting booted off the 1st PP unit. The Oilers isn’t going to waste a 14M player for a bottom 6 player at this point
Rantanen effectiveness would be similar to Hossa minus the selke level of defense but a higher injection of octane. I honestly think he will mesh well with McDavid
Pickard has outplayed Skinner in my opinion. Also teams looks much more confident innfront of pickard to me
A lot of teams has a hole on the right side tho. The reason he picked us is the same reason Skinner picked us. Chance at the cup and bigger payday after this season. No doubt Saad has the same idea on his mind. Saad isn’t going to make 5M disappear like that without thinking he will make more than that in the future
Its nice players might want to play here.
That doesn't mean you have to bring in every fringe former top 6 guy because they think they can still play. Saad is having a miserable season. Worst GA/60 of any forward on the Blues by a country mile. Only one worse than him was Kapanen before they waived. Who has come here and put up the worst GA/60 of any of our forwards by a country mile.
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Gene is salivating at having Saad in our lineup
AddyTheWrath
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But at $1m there would be literally 0 risk.
Well if I show you we lose all our leverage!
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I’d take a flyer on Saad for sure. Guy has a nose for the net when he’s in the paint. You can always use a guy like that in the playoffs.
Ryan Rishaug on GYB Podcast - "It would not surprise me at all if the Oilers are in on Brandon Saad".
He's still betting on himself this season. He left money on the table. That tells me, at the very least, he can get a decent NHL contract next season
He's still betting on himself this season. He left money on the table. That tells me, at the very least, he can get a decent NHL contract next season
His numbers against top teams this year is very concerning.
Stuart Skinner vs top-10* teams :2-7-3, 0.871 SV%, 3.49 GAA
Stuart Skinner vs all other teams: 16-4-0, 0.916 SV%, 2.27 GAA
You really want to bet the last year you'll ever have McDavid/Drai/Bouch for this cheap on the above? Because we ain't gonna be playing the Buffalos of the world in the playoffs.
I would rather find someone else who can take over the crease in a situation if Skinner shits the bed in the playoffs.
And no, I don't see any growth in his game. Struggling to stay above .900 on a top defensive team in the league and barely a hair above Pickard is not impressive, neither is being 27th in the league for save percentage (Pickard being 28th).
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ujju2
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Saad would probably be a good locker room addition as well. I remember when he left Chicago the first time, it was reported that the leadership group wanted him back and so the Hawks traded Panarin to bring him back. Now that obviously is horrendous value-wise, but it might speak to the value that group placed on that player (pretty sure Bowman was GM as well).
But he's scored 20+ goals in every regular season except this year and one more year before when the season ended early.
