Rumor: Rumors & Trade Proposals Thread | Post Mortem '23-24 Season: Who Should Stay, Who Should Go & Who Should We Bring In?

[Canovin]

If the Oilers were the Sun, the Flames would be Pluto. No one cares, just a nothing burger planet that’s not even a planet and keeps getting relegated to moon status.

Missed opportunity to call the Flames Uranus

 

[McTonyBrar]

Now we can say goodbye to Campbell indefinitely

 

[belair]

If we can't package McLeod with Campbell. Maybe Mcleod for Sissons?

Sissons is pretty untouchable.

 

[WaitingForUser]

Missed opportunity to call the Flames Uranus

They don’t deserve planet status

 

[Mr Kot]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806762473552216306

I hope Alvin goes into panic mode and goes full Biden

 

[CupofOil]

You are a fan of skinner. Campbell’s worst regular season is better than Skinner’s playoff numbers. Campbell had better numbers than Skinner when he was sent down. Did you say the same thing about Skinner this playoffs?

How can you even compare the two after this playoff run and the last two regular seasons for that matter?

Buying him out is so shortsighted

How else do you propose that they rid of the contract?

 

[CupofOil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806496883017130320

This is from yesterday. Dear God I hope this is not true.

Dear God I hope it is. I'd love for the Flames to vastly overpay Jake.

 

[McDoused]

Seravelli said Desharnais is 1-1.5 tops.

 

[dem]

Seravelli said Desharnais is 1-1.5 tops.

Should be.

If I'm Desharnais... I take the most money I can get for as long as I can get. Guy is 28 and has only made 500k in his career. This contract is EVERYTHING for him.

 

[McShogun99]

Seravelli said Desharnais is 1-1.5 tops.

If that's all it takes to sign him then the Oilers should get it done. That's a fair price for a bottom pairing D.

 

[FlameChampion]

Seravelli said Desharnais is 1-1.5 tops.

That’s interesting. Either his stock is falling or Frank is wrong. Hes always seems like he should be around 1.5 to 1.75 to me though

 

[McJadeddog]

This is from Oilernation yesterday.

“I loved coming here and having the opportunity to chase the Cup and play with the guys here,” Henrique said. “I felt like I fit in great with the group, so I think for me, anything’s on the table and we just wait until this weekend or next week to get things sorted.


“I think there’s a price for winning. Being on a team like Edmonton that’s so close, and year after year now, the Stanley Cup is the goal for me coming in. It kind of renews the passion for the game a bit. I haven’t had the opportunity to be in the playoffs for a long time and have that opportunity to win,” Henrique added. “Certainly, I don’t think money is the number one thing for me at this point in my career.”

Sounds to me like he has an appetite to stay.......

That is just somebody saying what they know the reporter wants to hear. Nobody is going to come out and say "of course I'm not going to give up $2M/year to be on a winning team, I'm not stupid!"

 

[CycloneSweep]

I don’t get why teams do this when the draft hasn’t even started

Prices probably go up maybe? Still dumb either way

 

[McSuper]

They don’t deserve planet status

They aren't a planet. They are a black hole where everyone and thing goes to die. There no escape once you get the Flames stench on you.

 

[CycloneSweep]

We have 3 top 6 wingers in RNH, Hyman and Kane. Younger guys like Holloway and Lavoie should get some looks in the top 6 and as I mentioned they can look into other guys who might come cheaper for a chance to play in our top 6, maybe guys like Arvidsson, Olafsson, Toffoli, Mantha, Barabanov, Duclair. There’s quite a few of those mid range options I’m sure one out there would take a haircut to come here for a chance to win a cup, rebuild value or both.

If Connor and Leon are two of the best in the world and they already have guys like Nuge, Hyman, Kane as options then that group should be able to elevate one or two younger players or mid range FA middle 6 kind of guy. If two guys are eating up 21M of the cap then I think it’s a reasonable expectation that they both shouldnt need to be flanked on both sides by 5M+ wingers.

I think the issue is with his injuries, is Kane even a top 6 winger anymore?
These playoffs we had 2 and that was it. I’d rather grab one so we actually have 6 top 6 players so then the young guys can move up due to injuries, not go into the season a man down.

 

[Canovin]

Time to ice the buy outs/termination:

Duchene-McDavid-Hyman
Skinner-Drai-Atkinson
Holloway-RNH-Kane
Janmark-Henrique-Brown

 

[TheNumber4]

Seravelli said Desharnais is 1-1.5 tops.

All day long at that price. I would do it.

 

[Arpeggio]

I think the issue is with his injuries, is Kane even a top 6 winger anymore?
These playoffs we had 2 and that was it. I’d rather grab one so we actually have 6 top 6 players so then the young guys can move up due to injuries, not go into the season a man down.

I know it will never happen, but it would be so nice if Nuge could figure out how to play centre again, and we grabbed two wingers for Drai. Maybe Kane and Nuge could be a third line that could actually score a goal once in a while. Unfortunately I'm not sure Nuge is that kind of player anymore.

 

[cruisecity]

Time to ice the buy outs/termination:

Duchene-McDavid-Hyman
Skinner-Drai-Atkinson
Holloway-RNH-Kane
Janmark-Henrique-Brown

Softest team in the league. Does nothing to help us win games in tight checking hockey.

 

[DavidHasselhoffsFist]

They aren't a planet. They are a black hole where everyone and thing goes to die. There no escape once you get the Flames stench on you.

They are less than that
Calgary is nothing but space junk large enough to generate its own gravitational pull attracting other junk into orbit just to be burned up in the atmosphere.

 

[FlameChampion]

All day long at that price. I would do it.

Yeah, if that’s the cost. I would sign him and move Ceci

 

[CupofOil]

That’s interesting. Either his stock is falling or Frank is wrong. Hes always seems like he should be around 1.5 to 1.75 to me though

He was healthy scratched the majority of the last 2 playoff series and even worse for him, their PK might have gotten even better. Vinny lost a lot of leverage in that 2 week span.

 

[Canovin]

Softest team in the league. Does nothing to help us win games in tight checking hockey.

The Oilers would win every game via 4th line

 

[TheNumber4]

Yeah, if that’s the cost. I would sign him and move Ceci

Yup. Fo sho. Still would need a replacement on Ceci though.

 

[NeverForget06]

Time to ice the buy outs/termination:

Duchene-McDavid-Hyman
Skinner-Drai-Atkinson
Holloway-RNH-Kane
Janmark-Henrique-Brown

Why would we become the Stars when we saw how bad all the Stars old Dinosaur players were holding up by round 3?