Avatar

Timmah007

Member Since
Jun. 8, 2020
Favourite Team
Edmonton Oilers
Forum Posts
7725
Posts per Day
10.2
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 12:41 p.m.
Thread: Did something odd
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Logan_Ollivier</b></div><div>Nurse, Kassian, Kieth, Ceci, Hyman, Barrie and Smith are all bad contracts. Either too much for what they can do or too much term for players who will decline before their deals are up. Nurse is the worst one. He's not a top pair defenceman but scores points off the back of McDavid and is below average when McDavid isn't on the ice. Yost from TSN did an article on Nurse about how he's 2 different players. A average to below average top 4 without McDavid and elite with McDavid. Paying him for what McDavid does for him is a mistake.</div></div>

Ceci provided well over his cap hit.
Keith played top four minutes all year maybe a bit over paid at this stage but delivered exactly what Edmonton wanted. Good luck finding a more tallent right shot puck mover for under 5 million Barrie is very fair value. Your the first person I've ever heard say anything negative about Hyman contract very fair value there. Smith saved the oilers season and absolutely provided extremely great value for just over two million and along with Kass they both aren't even on this roster. Nurse at 5.6 no complaints. It remains to be seen if he's worth the raise he got but can't judge him against his new cap hit until he plays games at that cap hit. If healthy I see no reason he can't live up to it he's out preformed every deal he's had so far.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 12:00 p.m.
Thread: Did something odd
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Logan_Ollivier</b></div><div>The Oilers defence sucks, their goaltending sucks and their depth sucks. They won't succeed until they fix all 3 of those. If winning a round or two is the big wins you are hoping for you'll be fine, but only because the Pacific is by far the weakest division in hockey. To me, I want the Oilers to be good for McDavid's sake but I don't see how that is even possible. You have bad contracts all over the lineup, no depth and nothing special coming down the pipeline as far as prospects. I look at the Oilers and just feel for you guys. This is as good as it's going to get before getting just awful.</div></div>

Bad contracts? Find one on this roster.
No good prospects? Holloway bourgault broberg are certainly very quality prospects.
D was good enough to reach final four with nurse playing on one leg entire playoffs.
Forwards I'm not sure what there is to complain about lost Kane but teams loose rentals every year still a better roster than started last year with and that should be the goal every year steps forward.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 9:44 a.m.
Thread: Very aggressive wishful thinking
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ceeque84</b></div><div>I dont think Rutta is a big downgrade from Barrie if Bouch is to be the full time PP1 guy next season. Rutta played big minutes for Tampa up on the top pairing with Hedman, he is better defensively than Barrie.
Agreed that the Debrincat trade is a little bit of an overpay, idealy i would like to remove Bourgault from it, but i was taking into consideration that they would be very late first rnd picks.
I dont think the Arizona trade is an overpay. Again, the first rnd pick for Crouse would be late in the rnd. I get that alot of Oiler fanas are super high on Savoie, but i think its a bunch of biased speculation. Plus, if they are hypothetically getting Debrincat and keeping Yamo, there is no need for more another undersized winger, they also have a surplus of Left shot wingers... another reason it would be best to try and keep Bourgault if possible.</div></div>

Bourgault would be off limits for me just because we need a right shot forward coming up.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 7:37 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed. at 7:47 p.m.
Thread: Oilers get a goalie
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Shylo_Moxii</b></div><div>you're believing JP gets you Gibson. Kassian costs a 1st to dump big no. Start with Holloway and work your way up from there without adding salary dump players.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TampaBayLightning22</b></div><div>:laugh Kassian is a cap dump it would take the 1st alone to move him, So it's basically Jesse Puljujarvi for John Gibson $1,600,000 retain. Yeah you're living in a fantasy world.</div></div>

You both are dreaming suggesting it would require a first to move Kass.... Overpaid but still an nhl caliber player. Let's say he makes double what he should that's 1.6 dead money for two years does that justify asking for a first round pick? Not even close.

As for the trade I personally don't like the idea of being married to any goalie brought in. I'd like a short term 1 or 2 year deal to at least get a better clearer picture of skinner. Talbot maybe.
Barrie for soucy trade I think should be careful. Yes save cap but moving a right shot for left shot makes 11-7 much more difficult. So that's one regularly used tool out of the freshly signed coaches play book.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed. at 3:20 p.m.
Thread: Forget about Kane
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Quillanrocks</b></div><div>I don't disagree with you; I dread to think what $$ and term Seattle may be stuck with if Francis goes hard after Klingberg and would prefer they pivot elsewhere if too rich and too long. (God knows his first 3 BIG signings aren't looking too good!!) But Klingberg can defend and has a history with Oleksiak, so I get the appeal if I'm Francis. And I just hesitate to spend draft picks on players who aren't sure to be a fit for this team how it is currently designed. Barrie doesn't seem like the guy. He ran the PP with 2 of the top 5 players on earth. His numbers are inflated and no one would ever confuse him for a defender that you'd trust to preserve a lead!! Nothing about Seattle's roster says "that's the guy to make the team better." JMO!</div></div>

Well both Tippett and woodcroft have used Barrie late in games to hold leads and woodcroft actually moved Barrie onto the pk when it was struggling to snap out of it. The reputation about Barrie not being able to defend are very much over blown and inaccurate. That being said not suggesting he's a shut down type definitely a playmaker more than defender but much more capable than most on this site will credit him for. Kinda like how you pointed out he ran a pp with two extremely talented players personally don't think it's right to view it in a way that takes away from giving the credit earned. Multiple other players have ran that pp over the years klef nurse bouch but with Barrie it hit historic heights for extended period of time. The perception of Barrie on this site just seems well off what it should be in my opinion.
×