Value of: Vejmelka or Ingram to EDM

[Phion Keneuf]

Yeah, but he would play the right side here. I think some fans have debated whether or not he can play the right side.

It would just be RD then instead of RHD.

The h is for which handedness they are.

 

[VeteranPresence]

and gone now!

Stan Bowman would’ve been in on him but can’t risk losing out on a defenseman passing through waivers and/or recovering from a major surgery. Don’t worry though, once all of TSN’s top 20 trade targets are gone and there are 30 seconds until the deadline, he’ll make the extremely difficult decision to part with a 4th rounder for some team’s bottom pairing guy. He’ll forever lose sleep though over the prospect who might have played for us six years from now though, so I hope we all appreciate his sacrifice.

(I wish I was kidding but that’s been his MO all year)

 

[Czechboy]

Stan Bowman would’ve been in on him but can’t risk losing out on a defenseman passing through waivers and/or recovering from a major surgery. Don’t worry though, once all of TSN’s top 20 trade targets are gone and there are 30 seconds until the deadline, he’ll make the extremely difficult decision to part with a 4th rounder for some team’s bottom pairing guy. He’ll forever lose sleep though over the prospect who might have played for us six years from now though, so I hope we all appreciate his sacrifice.

(I wish I was kidding but that’s been his MO all year)

As far as I can tell... the requirements are

Over 30
Career in peril
Must be recovering from something major

But, in fairness, the trade market is slow right now and nothing major going on at all. Good time to sit on your hands.

 

[VeteranPresence]

As far as I can tell... the requirements are

Over 30
Career in peril
Must be recovering from something major

But, in fairness, the trade market is slow right now and nothing major going on at all. Good time to sit on your hands.

Would like if I could.

 

[MessierThanThou]

The unfortunate truth is that our fan base can’t think for itself and needs the media or management to tell them a player is bad. Until then they are untouchable and faultless. It’s really embarrassing stuff frankly and we deserve to be ridiculed for it.

The Stu Skinner fanclub should be banned for defending him during games like the one today. They really are the sewage of hockey fandom because they validate the idiotic decisions of management and, similar to what you said, make all Oiler fans look like glitch-brained bots with flat-earther levels of critical thought.

I legitimately have far more respect and much prefer interacting with fans of other franchises than with supposed Oiler fans here and on Reddit who defend every shitty goal Skinner lets in, and continue to blather on about how he's "just fine" and "took us to game 7" and "you won't get a better goalie for what we're paying," which are all false. Going into the game today, he was 51st in Goals Saved Above Average. Most of those 50 goalies ahead of him make less than he does.

 

[VeteranPresence]

The Stu Skinner fanclub should be banned for defending him during games like the one today. They really are the sewage of hockey fandom because they validate the idiotic decisions of management and, similar to what you said, make all Oiler fans look like glitch-brained bots with flat-earther levels of critical thought.

I legitimately have far more respect and much prefer interacting with fans of other franchises than with supposed Oiler fans here and on Reddit who defend every shitty goal Skinner lets in, and continue to blather on about how he's "just fine" and "took us to game 7" and "you won't get a better goalie for what we're paying," which are all false. Going into the game today, he was 51st in Goals Saved Above Average. Most of those 50 goalies ahead of him make less than he does.

Bravo. I said it in another post, I think old L. Ron has saner fans than the Skinner Stans. He is a backup at best by every metric but a couple decent playoff games has convinced them he’s goaltending Jesus.

 

[MessierThanThou]

Oilers getting bent over in this period

Isn't this like the tenth time he's set the team back this early in a game this season? How can you sanely NOT blame him?

Bravo. I said it in another post, I think old L. Ron has saner fans than the Skinner Stans. He is a backup at best by every metric but a couple decent playoff games has convinced them he’s goaltending Jesus.

And they love leaving out how his play almost screwed the team out of Round 2 like he did against Vegas the year before... And that his horrible play in the first 3 Games of the Finals played a huge role in being down 0-3...because apparently overtime doesn't exist and there's no way the team could score if the third period ended at 0-0, which I learned from one of the Skinnertologists on here the other day.

 

[archangel2]

Every game Skinner plays the asking price goes up

 

[VeteranPresence]

Every game Skinner plays the asking price goes up

If Vejmelka is hell bent on testing FA (hypothetically, I have not heard that) Edmonton needs to part with whatever future(s) Utah asks for. It’s a capital E Emergency at this point.

 

[MessierThanThou]

Honestly, we can get James Reimer for practically nothing and he will make it look like we won the lottery behind the defense we already have. Also, he has a way better Goals Saved Above Expected than Skinner so I'm not just guessing here.

A huge upgrade for Skinner is probably a lot cheaper than we think, it's just the hype of the media and all the Skinner bots who make us think the solution will cost an arm and a leg. Pickard was a full-time AHL goalie for a few seasons before we called him up and his stats aren't much worse than Stu's...

Yeah, Gibson or Vejmelka would be nice, but I bet even a guy like Reimer would do just fine.