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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 5, 2018 at 1:40 a.m.
Thread: oilers trade with NYR
Pulujarvi will for sure be a 20+ goal scorer next season barring injury, he is on a 17 goal pace right now playing 10min a night on the 3rd and 4th line with no PP time. Yamamoto is tearing it up in junior right now at a higher ppg then Draisaitl had. Draisaitl scored 51 points centering the first line the year after. Basically I expect Yamamoto and Pulujarvi to be the top 6 RW next year.
I have seen a majority of Cagguila's NHL games, and I believe he has the potential to be a really good 3rd line winger. He played well as our 1RW in the play offs last year, and has inconsistently shown flashes of the NCAA star he was. He is scoring at a 13 goal pace this season and people are still saying he is struggling (inconsistent line mates, injuries, not playing as well as he did in playoffs, healthy scratched, etc). Suffice to say his ceiling is higher than 13 goals considering he is only 23.
Benning has also had a bit of sophomore slump, but his rookie season last year, people were talking about how he was trending to be a top 4 dman or atleast a really good 3rd pairing dman. I wouldn't write him off yet, especially as he will cost between 1-2m, and we will want to keep him on a value contract after we can trade Sekera and Russell in summer 2019.
Ethan Bear is not quite ready for the NHL. I'd rather see him as a #1 in the AHL then a number 6/7 on the oilers for a year. Auvitu can fill that role for us for one more year.
Zuccarello is two years removed a 26 goal campaign, and is 30 years old. He would slot in at 3RW in our lineup. Considering all of this I wouldn't make the trade.
I don't mind trading Kassian, as he is 1m too much for a 4th line winger that is really inconsistent.
My guess would be Strome 3m Cagguila 1m Slepyshev 1m
Lastly, Chiarelli has already said he's trying to compete now, which means he's not looking for draft picks, but NHL prospects who are close to playing. Which means you probably won't see him make a trade 3 players for 1.
I don't know much about spooner, but I thought he was a center, with 4th line numbers? and 4.5m for his production is horrendous, almost as bad as Lucic. But... based on the lineup you gave, I will show you my starting lineup if I was the coach.

RNH McDavid Yamamoto
Lucic Draisaitl Puljujarvi
Khaira Strome Zuccarello
Aberg Spooner Slepyshev
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 4, 2018 at 10:13 p.m.
Thread: Oilers Rebound season
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LobbysOilers</b></div><div>if youre gonna trade a LHD for peanuts make it russell because he sucks and sekera doesnt - lucic deal is fine but why would u drop montoya and use a guy with no experience instead? hes not even much cheaper. also ty rattie isnt an nhl player and putting him with connor is worse than Lucic. same with hemmer - hes not better than Kassian. caggiula is getting 400k more than he should and Nurse got 1.6M too little at least</div></div>

Almost swap cap hits for Strome and Nurse haha.

Also, why would you trade Sekera and retain 2m when he's a really good player who is worth 5.5m when he is playing at his best. I don't know if he will get back to his best, but give him another year and he provides his trade list in summer 2019. By then he might have regained his form and have positive value even at 5.5m. Realistically we are not going to be cup contenders in 18/19, so theres no point in giving up picks or retaining salary for an upgrade.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 2, 2018 at 6:21 p.m.
Thread: A deal i seen from a habs fan and I love it
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Blazingbat11</b></div><div>only guy I see Habs moving for RNH at this imo is Pacioretty, and even then I don't like it. nothing against RNH, but seeing that before McJesus, he was EDM #1 C and he struggled due to always going up against other teams best defensive squads, I don't think it's a coincidence that his "best year" is when he has no pressure and gets favorable matchups when McJesus and Draisaitl take the best the opposition can throw at them. and considering RNH would be the default #1 C in Hab Land....I don't think it's going to go well for him. Just my opinion though.</div></div>

RNH struggles when he played with with wingers like Eberle and Lucic as a checking line against other teams top lines. While McD and Drai were teamed up against other teams top checking line. RNH hasn't played with good wingers since Hall was traded.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 2, 2018 at 5:57 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 2, 2018 at 5:39 p.m.
Thread: Develop from within like the good teams do
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Mitch11</b></div><div>If they want a defensemen like that, why take Tkachuk when Evan Bouchard might be available? He has been playing great. I know it does not necessary help right away but it will help in the future. I agree with everything else that you said. However, I would switch RNH and Draisaitl in your lines, at least for a while. i also think it might be nice to get an experienced guy to help lead the team. I am not sure who...</div></div>

We also don't have top wingers right now so if Puljujarvi and Yamamoto develop like we hope they will, and Drai/RNH play LW, we are missing 1 LW spot in the top 6. Thats why Tkachuck or Zadina in my opinion. I prefer Drai over RNH as 2C because I think Drai is better able to check big centres like Crosby Kopitar Getzlaf than McD or RNH. Think playoff series against the Ducks last year. But we haven't seen RNH as a winger yet so I don't know for sure!

Thats a good point and a thought I have also had. But for next year we do have Sekera and Russell. The following year if we trade both of them we have Talbot 32yo, Larsson/Klefbom/RNH all 26/27yo, Milan Lucic (if we keep him) 32yo, Kassian 29yo. So thats probably enough experience/age if a couple of those guys are the guys to speak up and be a leader in the dressing room. I hear Larsson is and thats why he was given the 'A'