McDNicks17
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He's no worse than Desharnais.
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Behind Enemy Lines
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Oil have pre-purchased their trade deadline depth d-men with Brown and Stetcher. Giving them x3 and x2 terms protects against waiver claim action and their differing styles gives 3rd pair and 7th D versatility. Emberson's age, possible latent ability, and ufa status likely gets him first shot at 2RD until trade deadline upgrade.
All trade chips at deadline can focus on 2RD upgrade and retention/double retention potential with maybe a cheap get at another position.
Broberg Speed
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I believe those are realistic expectations... that's the bar. I wonder what Desharnais stat line would have looked like last season in Arizona as a stay at home defensive defenseman? Brown is s a good interview.
This is from yesterday, I love how Bouchard credits Barrie on helping him develop his power play game.
I hope Pickard gets 30 regular season game so Skinner is fresh for the postseason.
Analytically Josh Brown is arguably the worst defender to play regular minutes last year.
He is physical but he is awful at hockey.
He is a 7D arguably an AHL tweener.
Lay Z Boy GM
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He hasn’t really played on a good team yet. Let’s just see what he can do, I’m not writing anyone off yet
JeffSkinner53
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Personally my biggest concern is the lack of speed in the bottom 6. Foegle, Macleod, and Holloway can all skate. That's my one issue heading into the season.
McDNicks17
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Only by analytics that ignore all context.
onetweasy
"That's just like, your opinion, man"
Well f***.
I came into this training camp thread looking exclusively for ways to solve countless complex City planning issues and now you’ve gone and ended that…..
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On The Prowl
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Pretty sure I saw him destroy somebody in a fight the one and only time I remember watching him.
Fourier
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At least the Oilers can say that "our scouts can beat your scouts in a street fight".
Dazed and Confused
Ludicrous speed, GO!
I think this is the only point where I'm not going to completely write him off. He didn't get into many games with them, but Boston fans seemed to like what he brought back in 2022 after getting traded there at the TDL.
Still, I have him on the outside looking in. But considering history says Stecher and Dermott are made of glass, and Emberson struggled to stay healthy last year (though he was fine in college and the AHL), I wouldn't be surprised to see Brown or Kemp pushed into service.
The analytics that compare him to his teammates show the same too. He got easy minutes and still did bad. Mostly saw bottom comp and did bad.
We are taking a#6/7 d from the worst defence in the league and throwing them on our third pairing. He’s not good. He and Dermott are similar level players. Dudes 30 he isn’t some young dude with potential.
If we are playing games with both Brown and Kemp in the lineup, Ekholm and Bouchard are going to be over worked lol
Relative Corsi -8, worst on the team
Relative Fenwick -7.1, second worse, Dermott worse
xGF Relarive -6, second worst on team, Dermott worse
This is a player while seeing the easiest minutes against the easiest comps did worse than Arizonas out of their element top4 d against much better competition.
He is a bad player, full stop.
