Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | With Klingberg in the Mix Who Are Our 7D After the Deadline?

[Canovin]

In your Rantanen deal, I wonder if Arvidsson could go the other way, that way the Canes get a scoring forward, as well as assets? I do like Arvy, but I would trade him for this kind of change/upgrade.

I checked the cap, Arvid doesn't have to go the other way if we use Kane LTIR and Pickard 1M. But if we are looking to upgrade the Klingberg position, Arvid would certainly have to be traded

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

I checked the cap, Arvid doesn't have to go the other way if we use Kane LTIR and Pickard 1M. But if we are looking to upgrade the Klingberg position, Arvid would certainly have to be traded

That's my expectation, plus I (and I know I don't do this much) am trying to consider what the Canes might be looking for in return. It's a tougher sell to get just futures, after trading what amounts to your 2 leading scorers.

 

[McDNicks17]

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I'm curious where those numbers come from.

He has a worse xGF% and Offensive Zone time on Edge than most guys on there, but somehow has by far the highest puck possession number?

 

[backhandsauce]

B-Schenn???

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

B-Schenn???

lolz, not a chance. The guys washed and still has 3 yrs left at $6.5M on the cap. He's a possible buyout in the summer, absolutely not someone you trade assets for, unless you're like Chicago and you're trying to prop up your cap with an expensive Vet.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

TIL oilfans is still up and running. I think I lasted posted there in ~2006. There was a poster named Tombstone who had convinced half the forum he was an insider who worked for the team. Turns out he was just full of shit lol.

It's still up and running? Wow I remember posting there in 2005

 

[CanadasTeam99]

Theodore out week to week. Knights will be looking for a dman

 

[McDrai]

Theodore out week to week. Knights will be looking for a dman

Josh Brown for Lavoie

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Theodore out week to week. Knights will be looking for a dman

Ah, so on LTIR until game one of the 1st round, seems likely.

Maybe they'll overpay for Risto.

 

[guymez]

In the Florida series, all the goals in Game 3 were from secondary scorers (all gone now but I digress).
A whole bunch of non-McDrai guys scored in Game 4, the depth guys scored 2 of the goals in Game 5, they scored 4 goals in Game 6 and the depth guys scored the only goal in Game 7.

The depth scoring was actually pretty tremendous in the SCF, that was not the issue. The issue was scoring 1 goal total in the first 2 games of the series, none by the top guys, and nothing from them in Game 7 and Skinner letting in a soft goal on the game winning goal. The depth guys were great in the last 2 series in particular, not to mention the historically good PK led by the depth guys.
Now it's a new set of depth guys so we'll see how they do come playoff time but depth scoring was not an issue last year.

Don't get me wrong, the top 5 (McDraiman, Bouchard, Ekholm) did a lot of heavy lifting as all top guys usually do for teams but the depth guys weren't an issue last playoffs in the back half in particular.
I think the biggest detriment to the Oilers in the Cup finals was Draisaitl playing at like 50% capacity if even that, he could hardly skate and was a non-factor.

Actually the secondary scoring was anything but tremendous (when McDavid and Driaisaitl werent scroing) in the SCF.
Thats not an opinion...thats reality.
To properly see that you have to look at the losses...not the wins.
To get an even better picture of what I am talking about expand that and look at every loss in the entire playoffs and not just focus on the SCF.

As I said McDrai scored a grand total of 2 goals in those 11 loses. I goal each.
The key to beating this team is to shut down McDrai. Thats true because when you take McDrai out of the game the remaining players arent much of a threat....thats especially true this season.

Its actually worse this year because the team is paying more money for less secondary scoring compared to last season.