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Smokewise Ganja
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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 16 at 5:53 p.m.
Thread: Kinda hard to evaliate what to do
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AC14</b></div><div>It makes 0 sense for the Blues to trade Parayko.

What are you offering back here?
1. a mid to late 1st
2. a project LD with a high draft pedigree - but troubling results early in his career.
3. a forward prospect who probably projects to be a middle 6er if everything shakes right.

We could stand to add a late 1st but don't need to.

Broberg is far from a valuable asset right now. He is a project. He has been mishandled by the Oilers front office and has had troubling results due to it.

Bourgault would probably be our 5th best forward prospect at the moment. Not an area of need especially when we have THomas and Kyrou locked up for 8 years.

What we would need to do if we traded Parayko is to fully redesign our defense that is littered with full NTCs that are being paid UFA money or close to it, and young guys who project as little more than bottom pairing players. That is an impossible task. So what it would do then afterwards is push us into a long-term rebuild versus what we're shooting for of a retool (Per our GM).

We aren't replacing Parayko for 6.5m a year any time soon, nor are we entering a full on rebuild any time soon. Thus why Parayko isn't available unless you offer a younger RD that can handle heavy minutes in a package.</div></div>

Dude, Parayko is not good. Would the oilers take him even if the blues added a first? I highly doubt it. Long, expensive contract for a player with a similar impact to Brett kulak
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 17, 2023 at 7:43 p.m.
Thread: Upgrade Ceci and Campbell
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AG_sweden</b></div><div>The price is too high to offload in my mind. Problem number two, how many goalies have gone from good to awful in the Oilers organisation? Not first time they invest in a goalie that they had to get rid off as soon as the Inc dried up on the new deal. It is unfortunate. And I don't really know why that keeps happening?</div></div>

I actually disagree, there hasn't been any good goalies that have come into the organization over the last decade and a half. Talbot is the only guy I can think of, and he still played really good here for 3 years, and only in the 4th and final year was he a negative asset. You look at all the goalies we've brought in the last 5 years or so -- Smith, Koskinen, Campbell, Montoya, Stolarz, they were all *meh* at best until they got here. Koskinen, Smith played better than they did before coming here. Campbell fell off a mental cliff, and Montoya and stolarz were never good to begin with. It's not like they bring in elite goalies and the defense sags them so bad that they get terrible.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 8, 2023 at 11:46 a.m.