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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 28, 2023 at 1:51 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 13, 2022 at 2:05 p.m.
Thread: Kubalik Husso Lybushkin
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Timmah007</b></div><div>How is Bouchard better on pp? He had one good game quarterbacking the pp. Think a lot of opinions on Bouchard this season are more in line with his potential rather than his results. It’s still his first season seeing consistent ice time there is absolutely no need to rush the process with him. I’d like to see him continue to see more pk time than power play because shouldn’t ignore developing his defensive awareness. It will prove beneficial over his entire career. Remove Barrie more of a spotlight gets put on Bouchard more will start noticing the inexperienced mistakes he’s been making the harder media and fans will start being on him in my opinion Barrie has been shielding him from seeing shultz like treatment.</div></div>

I'm on board with moving Barrie - but he won't be a cap dump. There will be teams that'll want him. I think you need to move him for a different type of RHD - more of a shutdown, bigger body RHD. I think the other reason why people would rather trade him because he'll get a better return than Keith. Let's be honest, if Keith wasn't on this team, then Barrie can stay and play with Niemalienen on the bottom pair. Then find a shutdown LHD - which is easier to do.

Option 1: Keep Barrie, trade Keith because he's a better player. The only thing is it'll be hard to trade Keith. Keith is good as a third pair dman - but he's not worth 5.5M on the cap.
Option 2: Keep Keith, trade Barrie. Barrie is the better player without trade protection so he is the easier one to trade.

Nurse - Ceci - both can play either side but both don't excel at either side if that makes sense.
Keith (more of a puck mover) - ???? (shutdown type)
Niemalienen (shutdown type) - Bouchard (puck mover)
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 13, 2022 at 11:48 a.m.
Thread: Kubalik Husso Lybushkin
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Timmah007</b></div><div>Move Barrie replace with a 1/3 of the player and think going to be better for it. Just really don’t get that mindset on this site.
This concept shouldn’t be considered outside the box thinking more common sense approach why not beef up the left add some responsibility to that side and keep the guy who’s been highly productive his entire career. Hate seeing the guy who led all d in points just last year be given away for pennies on the dollar. Makes no sense to me.</div></div>

Logical but not practical. They don't have the cap space to get someone truly capable of carrying Barrie, nor the flexibility to deploy him favorably in addition to Bouchard.
The Oilers aren't strong enough as a whole to incorporate a PP specialist in a defense slot either.
While they could improve and manage better than they have been, Barrie will still be a less effective contributor in the areas where Edmonton really needs it right now.

It makes more sense to move him than to keep him at this point. How they fill that hole afterwards is a legitimate concern however.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 8, 2022 at 4:15 p.m.