The player for players value is perfectly acceptable but the Oilers could never afford to sign Nylander.
To be perfectly honest the Oilers could use versions of Miller or Sergachev. That type of player but who play RD. Although Sergachev and Miller have a lot of experience. So does Bouchard.
The 13 points on the pp number is rather misleading. Barrie was the guy on the first pp unit until he was traded. Bouchard had 8 pp points in 21 regular season games after that trade and 15 in 12 games in the playoffs. That's 23 pp points in 33 games as the point man on the pp and the Oilers don't even run their pp through the defenseman.
He just finished his second fulltime year and he has 61 ES points for 27th best in the league amongst defensemen over those two years.
That needs to be an unprotected 1st. Barron doesn't hold much interest for the Oilers. Trade Barron to a third party and include that pick in your offer to the Edmonton Oilers.
Because OP hates every Oiler under 25 except Broberg for god knows what reason.
Bouchard as he is now likely gets a middle to late 1st + B prospect. Has offensive potential while being poor in the defensive end
hard pass. Boyd is a 20-25 point player anywhere else, because nowhere else would play him 16+ minutes a night. Heck McLeod almost matched his production from the third line playing 25 less games and two and a half less minutes.
If you would read before jumping to conclusions you would see I would be willing to add Broberg as a throw in to make the cap work on any deal that would make the Oilers a more playoff ready team.
His value to Edmonton is currently higher than what he would fetch in a trade. He has potential, but currently doesn't excel in any areas of the game. Not the kind of player you trade away before he reaches his potential
How can this be? Even if Bouchard's value is the highest to the Edmonton Oilers how much higher could that value be than to the rest of the teams in the NHL?
Broberg's cap hit is so negligible it wouldn't make sense to have him as a throw in anywhere. That's one of the biggest problems with your continued crusade to try to dump useful young NHLers off a cliff. Nobody "established" coming back is going to make less than they will this coming season. Established 3C's make significantly in excess of 2 million. Frankly 2 is on the low end. Even low end top 4 defencemen make well in excess of 4 million. Holland shot his feet to the floor with a nailgun with the Nurse and Campbell contracts, which makes keeping fairly compensated, contibuting younger players like Bouchard and McLeod more important, not less.
I see you have never seen Bouchard play a single game in the NHL.
While I like Bouchard, if I'm Montreal, there's no chance I give up that much for him directly after drafting Reinbacher.
This is undeniably false. I've traced Bouchard's trajectory from before the Oilers drafted the player.
You only have six defensemen playing on any given night.
I'm very confident Montreal's goal is not to make the playoffs next year at the cost of spending their best picks for the next year's draft. Montreal is far more likely to be in the bottom 10 of the league standings than push for a playoff spot by design.
Nurse has played on the pp successfully before and Ekholm is a hell of a player in his own right.
You think more poorly of Montreal's chances than I do. Either that or you are one hard-ass negotiator. Which one is it?
I agree that Boyd would and should play lower down the depth chart. He only played as much as he did out of necessity to buy development time for Hayton and McBain. But he's at the price point the Oilers would like for McLeod this year and I think he'd produce about the same as McLeod did last year so that they could fit Bouchard.
