Bringer_Of_Snow
Joined: Apr. 2016
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I am leading the charge to move Kassian out of Edmonton. Despite him playing some of his most engaged and consistent hockey the last few weeks, he has been way too inconsistent for the prior 2-3 seasons. However, the worst case scenario for him is that he's overpaid by like $1M, but can can still be effective in the bottom 6.
Mrazek is not a good goaltender. Adding him forces you to have a duo of Mrazek/Skinner next year, which given Skinners small sample size and Mrazeks poor play, installs zero confidence. Its objectively a downgrade from our already average to below average goaltending for the Oilers. It's ok to have an underperforming bottom 6 winger. He doesn't play too many minutes, doesn't PK, so most of the time he is just unnoticeable, but still has the ability to fight and bring physicality. When you have an underperforming goalie, it's a lot more visible and costly, as I am sure you have seen out of Mrazek this season. Don't need that $3.8M cap hit handcuffing us from improving our goaltending.
1 for 1, it's a bad deal for the Oilers. The fact that you have the oilers retaining on 2 years of Kassian is just straight up off the mark.