Bryanbryoil
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Rumor: Trade Rumors & Proposals Thread | No More Pacifism For the Oilers?
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"Spencer Knight stops 41 of 42 and gets a standing ovation in his Chicago debut….Connor Bedard (year 2) got a starting goaltender before Connor Mcdavid (year 10)."
Oilers goalie Ben Scrivins 'The Professor ' stopped 59 shots. Didn't define him as a goalie.
"Spencer Knight stops 41 of 42 and gets a standing ovation in his Chicago debut….Connor Bedard (year 2) got a starting goaltender before Connor Mcdavid (year 10)."
Oilers goalie Ben Scrivins 'The Professor ' stopped 59 shots. Didn't define him as a goalie.
Spencer still has upside. It probably still takes a couple of years for him to get there but i think he eventually ends up over .920 consistently.
Tkachuk is out until the playoffs because of a groin injury?... What on earth? How was Florida able to prove this??
Did the guy get too excited on pornhub or something?
Did the guy get too excited on pornhub or something?
McDrai
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I’d be interested in Nico Sturm as a 4th line C (Would aim to get him at 50% retention). Big body, fellow German for Drai, and automatic on the dot (I believe he’s around 64% on face offs this year which is insane). His face off ability could be huge for us in critical defensive zone situations.
From what I heard, he's a good skater too. Fits every criteria for a 4C that we need.
And likely fairly cheap to buy/ and with a GM that doesn't hate us.
Scrivens might honestly been more talented than Stuart Skinner. His career got murdered by the Dallas Eakins train. I felt bad for him, getting traded to Edmonton at that exact point was pretty much the worst possible thing that could happen to any goalie.
You know its real bubba. Bill Zito's by his bedside giving hourly updates.
I would love Sturm. My only issue is that a 3rd party would need to retain. So hopefully 1M is only a 6th or 7th round pick.
BarDownBobo
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It’s really interesting to me that a guy who’s got that high a face off percentage only takes on average 5-6 face offs a game for the Sharks. Seems like they’ve got about 5-6 guys that regularly take face offs for them so that kinda leads me to believe he’s constantly being put in favorable, strong side face off positions. Since he’s also a lefty and we’ve already got Drai and Henrique sitting around 55% on draws from that side I wonder if Ty Dellandrea might be a more interesting target from the Sharks. Right shot who’s 53% on the draw this year and also throws a ton of hits which is something sorely lacking from the bottom 6 right now.
Not sure I'd be personally thrilled knowing he has only 1 goal in 48GP. Even if he can hit, I'd still want a guy in the bottom 6 that can chip in offensively, especially with how offensively lackluster our current bottom 6 is. Dellandrea seems meh. Less goals than Janmark is crazy lol.
unicornBLOOD
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assuming all this smoke about Kane is true and his plan is to come back before the playoffs, I just don't see what significant moves they will be able to make. If Kane's goal is to not get dealt, he could of picked a list of teams that would make it very difficult to move him. I don't think there will be much of a market for a 33 year old, who has been injured and had multiple surgeries, hasn't played or practiced in about 9 months, whose game was already declining, makes 5.125 million per year, and has one more year left on his deal. If Kane tells them he IS going to be ready for the playoffs, I expect a very quiet deadline for the Oil.
BarDownBobo
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That’s fair, the Sharks are so offensively inept especially in their bottom 6 it’s hard to know who’s really the cause of it. Could be a case of getting a guy out of a situation and seeing him flourish a bit. I’ve always been a fan of his since his draft so I’ve definitely got a bias, just fascinates me that he went from a 30 point essentially rookie season two years ago where he looked to be a long term fixture as a 3C somewhere to where he’s at now.
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I'd really like them to aim higher, this would feel like a change for the sake of making a change. He hasn't been very good in years now, but the Hawks are truly terrible. With that in mind, his previous season could have been worse, and had a decent workload
Suppose we decide to use Kanes LTIR money, could the team make a deal with a bottom feeder that in the case he decides to return early we waive him and they claim him? Would we avoid cap penalties this way?
Being that it is only a M-NTC, I think this is possible? I wonder if the threat of that is enough to get Kane to play along. It would require a lot of trust in the other GM, that they wouldn't then decide to just back out and extort more assets from us. Ideally someone who is GM and was an Oiler at one time, and has a history of making deals with us. Grier is the obvious choice, except that Kane was already there and gone, so idk. Can't imagine too many want to do Bowmam any favors either.
I personally want this team to have a healthy Kane, but I think they can use that capspace without worry of the NTC. Someone correct me if there is some flaw in this idea I'm not seeing.
Being that it is only a M-NTC, I think this is possible? I wonder if the threat of that is enough to get Kane to play along. It would require a lot of trust in the other GM, that they wouldn't then decide to just back out and extort more assets from us. Ideally someone who is GM and was an Oiler at one time, and has a history of making deals with us. Grier is the obvious choice, except that Kane was already there and gone, so idk. Can't imagine too many want to do Bowmam any favors either.
I personally want this team to have a healthy Kane, but I think they can use that capspace without worry of the NTC. Someone correct me if there is some flaw in this idea I'm not seeing.
Skinner and Pickard are 72nd and 73rd, respectively in GSAx. Mrazek is 93rd and only ahead of a guy now in the AHL and even below Tristan Jarry, who is also in the AHL (and also Dustin Schwartz's protege).
You can't tell me there aren't any goalies ahead of them who have played a decent number of games and are available... I also heard one of the media puppets mention 4giev. Like are you f***ing kidding me? They suggest two of the very, very few players who have worse numbers than our tandem?
Why do I get the feeling they want the fanbase to think the goaltending options are nonexistent or worse than Stu so they don't have to put any effort into upgrading our net without getting pelted by figurative garbage?
Hell, besides Gibson and Binner, what about Lyon and/or Talbot, Soderblom, Quick, James Reimer, Anton Forsberg...hell, is Merilainen available? They all make less money than Mrazek and 4giev too....
Yeah, they aren't impressive names, but they are all playing way better than Stu on worse teams and would more than likely look like the second coming of Roli compared to what we have now. That should tell you how dire our situation is...
I mean you want to talk about a no-cost acquisition, James Reimer could probably be had with a 5th round pick! His cap hit is $1 million and he's managed to keep a job in the NHL for well over a decade! Who thinks Skinner would last longer than a week before going on waivers anywhere else? Jarry was considered to be the more gifted goalie and under Schwartz's tutelage he's now in the minors. You think Skinner's lateral movement and rebound control wouldn't land him a ticket to any of those AHL hotbeds?
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Bryanbryoil
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I personally feel like that would be a giant kick to the balls of all of the Oilers players and fans.
