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"I honestly and truly believe this - if the Calgary Flames don't get Johnny Gaudreau, that they are gonna be forced to trade Matthew Tkachuk and they're gonna have to basically start over" - Seravalli on DFO Pod
The Oilers of old wouldn't have traded McLeod until he played 47 games as the 4C without scoring a goal next season & then taking a 5th rounder two yrs from now in return.
Seravalli on 960 says he could see the Coyotes moving as early as next season if the Tempe vote goes bad (and by the sounds of it, the team is worried)
Mike Smith has played a grand total of 30 NHL playoff games ever. He's played 11 since losing to LA on May 22nd 2012. It's May 2022. He is 1-10 in those 11 games with a .905 sv% & five times sported an .893 or worse. He is 40 yrs old. But MANN can he handle a puck!
Oilers management (& ownership) failed Taylor Hall & Andrew Ference much more than Taylor Hall or Andrew Ference ever failed the Oilers. Lets all remember that.
Hey, did you guys know the Oilers got Evander Kane for free and that he was their trade deadline acquisition and he didn't cost them anything and no other team can say they did that and he was free and didn't cost anything and he was their big deadline pickup.
NHL roster made up only of Oilers drafted players who have played N games this yr:
Hall-McDavid-Draisaitl
Cogliano-Nuge-Eberle
Khaira-Nash-Puljujarvi
Rieder-Brodziak-Pitlick
Paajarvi-Gagner-Yamamoto
Klefbom-Petry
Nurse-Gustafsson
Marincin-Jones
Davidson
Dubnyk
Zack Kassian just needs fans in the building... in a playoff atmosphere... on Tuesday's & Thursday's... on the road... and Friday's & Saturday's in Edmonton... if he ate chicken parm for a pregame meal, but only if he had a 47 min nap first... BUT WHEN ALL THAT ALIGNS, LOOKOUT!!!
It is absolutely baffling to me how EDM media are just waiting for Mike Smith to string together 15 good games like its just a matter of time. Mike Smith has Dave Tippett, Ken Holland & the EDM media all under a spell. Asinine.
Since turning down the Oilers in favor of the Flames, Jacob Markstrom has played 18 games vs EDM including playoffs. He's gone 7-11-0 with an .874sv% vs the Oil since signing in CGY.
This, from
@FriedgeHNIC
31 Thoughts is perplexing. This sort of move has happened before on a couple of occasions. If you're an NHL GM & u haven't "thought of this", WHAT THE HELL ARE U DOING?! Like WTF?! I'm a goddamn dozer operator & I thought of it. This f'n league man...
Wow. Just listening to Hockey PDOcast &
@frank_seravalli
says Peter Chiarelli wanted to keep Evan Bouchard up past the 9 games (making him vulnerable for the 2021 expansion draft), but that Todd McLellan didn't want him & after healthy scratching him 4 games in a row, Pete caved
EDM could trade Kris Russell & Adam Larsson this summer, not bring any D in, and their D to start the 2020-21 season still has a chance to be the best they've had in a decade.
Projecting that as of today:
Klefbom-Bear
Nurse-Bouchard
Jones-Benning
I can't believe how many Oil fans HATE David Rittich simply b/c he tossed his stick in the air after a big win. You'd think he slid the length of the ice on his knees after scoring the game winner or something...
The old guard is gonna be absolutely perplexed that EDM could play so many inexperienced D & have success. Fellas... it ain't the 90s anymore - we don't have to work in 1 rookie D every 3rd yr now. Issa young manz game. Let em skate!
Brian Burke fired Ron Wilson only after the fans chanted for his firing.
Jim Benning was fired after the fans chanted for his firing.
Take note, Oil fans.
#TonightsTheNight
I know I tweeted that I didn't think Todd McLellan would see December as Oilers coach earlier this month... so here goes - I'm not sure Peter Chiarelli sees December as Oilers GM.
People talk like EDM D has taken a massive blow compared to last season roster. It really hasn't. It's taken a bit of a blow on the 24/25 projected roster, for sure, but I don't think Ty Emberson is any worse than Desharnais. Broberg wasn't here most of the yr. So...
Stauff just said he expects EDM to make a bigger deal than the Athanasiou deal a few yrs back; also casually mentioned NSH has had interest in Kailer Yamamoto before... 💨
(Age at start of next season in brackets)
Erik Karlsson (30), $11.5M×7 more yrs.
Logan Couture (31), $8M×7 more yrs.
Marc-Eduard Vlasic (33), $7M×6 more yrs.
Brent Burns (35), $8M×5 more yrs
Evander Kane (29), $7M×5 more yrs.
Martin Jones (30), $5.75M×4 more yrs.
#SJSharks
Honestly, if CGY handed Lindholm $8.5M×8, Hanifin $7M×8, Toffoli $5M×3 & Backlund $4.5M×3, EVERYBODY that's laughing at them now would be laughing *hysterically*. This is a blessing!
Taylor Hall (31) & Jordan Eberle (13) have 44 pts.
Milan Lucic (7), Adam Larsson (10), Ryan Strome (2)+Ryan Spooner (3) & Alex Chiasson (18) have combined for 40 pts.
But that's kind of a ridiculous comment on my part b/c Chiasson has nothing to do with Hall or Eberle. 44-22.
So Seth Jarvis gets $63.2M over 8 yrs, which would normally be a $7.9M AAV, however, because he's deferring $3.2M of that until yr 9, they do NOT have to include that in the AAV, thus giving him a $7.5M cap hit instead.
Okay, Leon...
2 things: LAK should fire Todd McLellan for how he handled Jesse Puljujarvi while in EDM & Peter Chiarelli should never work in hockey again *even if you forget everything else he ever did* for his ✌development plan✌ for JP.
I don't care how many MSMers talk about Adam Larsson being the worst possible player injury that could happen to EDM, it's just not true. An Oscar Klefbom injury would be far more disastrous than a Larsson injury is. They can handle this just fine imo.
Friedman just dropped a note about an Oilers player telling him part of their motivation in the CGY series was to *actually* break the Flames. I'm sure the clip is coming.
If Larsson walks, EDM should walk away from Barrie & sign David Savard + Ryan Murray. Then sign Jaden Schwarz + Derek Ryan up front & Linus Ullmark in G.
FWIW, I think EDM beats LA in a playoff series, but I can't think of funnier end to the Oil season than Todd McLellan sending them golfing in 6. Surely, that'd be the end of Ken Holland.
1st round pick re-signs for a 5% raise. NCAA UFA Drake Caggiula re-signs (a 2 yr deal!) for an 80%raise. They made the same $ last yr. QO for both was $874,125. 5% raise. 80% raise.
Ken Holland is finished. At this point, he doesn't even maintain the charisma to be a front-man or figurehead of any kind, nevermind the lead authority figure. He's not a GM. He's not a POHO. At best, he could maaaaybe be a "Senior Consultant" with no public voice.
Gregor says he'd give Desharnais $2.75M×4; Seravalli says "I think that's exactly the type of contract that gets you in trouble".
Maan, this is gonna be a fun one!
Logan Couture, 31 in March, has 7 yrs left ($8M).
Evander Kane, 29 this summer, has 5 yrs left ($7M).
Erik Karlsson, 30 in May, has 7 yrs left ($11.5M).
Brent Burns, 35 in March, has 5 yrs left ($8M).
Martin Jones, 30 next week, has 4 yrs left ($5.75M).
Just disgusting.
What's nuts about the Sharks' fall this season is that normally you'd just give up at some point and start selling off but a) Sharks don't have their 1st and b) they have no assets (maybe Dillon?) to trade that don't have crippling dollars attached to them long term.