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Vinnylou
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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 15, 2021 at 11:36 a.m.
Thread: Lets make a deal cbj
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rpain</b></div><div>That is an absolute overpay that the Oilers should in no way consider. Laine is a top notch goal scorer but he's very inconsistent. You're getting an RFA with a similar statline to JP and offering a young cheap RHD, a young cheap RFA forward that's already playing in our top 6, our top D prospect, and a 1st. The Koskinen one is barely negative value at the point you've retained 50%.

Oilers lose this trade by a mile. Realistically you're probably giving up something along the lines of 1st plus Broberg or Holloway. I personally wouldn't trade for Laine. Oilers biggest weakness was depth, top 6 scoring was fine.</div></div>

Oilers biggest weakness was depth SCORING, outside of 97/29, and 93 on the PP, it was not there and got exposed in the playoffs... However I do agree, I would NOT want Laine, dude is a liability defensively, a cancer in the dressing room, and very selfish as a player... Would rather the Oilers use that cap space if they do get it to bring Hall back, or go after Landeskog w/o giving anything up...
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 15, 2021 at 10:55 a.m.
Thread: Curious to see some movement
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>vinnylou</b></div><div>Look at the team that's played in front of him. I'm not saying Edmonton's defense is any better. But Oilers will need to over pay for someone guy. Plus hes going to want term. I'd love it to be lower. But Oilers will, like always need to over pay for a goalie. He's been pretty consistent for a long time. But he makes more consistent saves instead of them going right through him like Koskinen. I'm not going to lie. He's terrible. LoL. Out of all the goalies out there he's probably the better long term solution one. Who knows. Ive always liked the guy. I wish the Oilers paid the price for him 5 years ago</div></div>

Yeah you're right he's been quite consistently in the 91.6 sv % area since coming into the NHL until these last two years and his sv% in the playoffs is typically pretty good. Atleast your AGM isn't hitching your success to a 39 year old Mike Smith. Term for Andersen just seems a bit much for the decreased performance over the past 2 seasons. Though if he can get back to his typical form it's not bad. Just a gamble and he's only 31.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 8, 2020 at 5:24 p.m.
Thread: Realistic Playoff Run
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>vinnylou</b></div><div>I'm not on the Holtby train. His glove hand is brutal. He doesn't make the key saves.. or the next save after we score a goal and deflates the team. So no.. I don't think he's better. .. just BC his numbers are on par. If it wasn't for Smith our season would have been a lot different.</div></div>

Agreed to an extent I just don’t feel replacing kosk is the right move. I’d rather stick with him and explore somebody like smith that can provide 35-40 starts at a reasonable price which I feel there is plenty of options out there. I just don’t see kosk as a problem like most seem to be around here now. Perhaps he didn’t play as well as we needed in the play in round but let’s face it can we name 3 players on the 23 man roster who did so I personally am for the most part throwing that out since don’t think those games are fair evaluation entire team crapped the bed.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 5, 2020 at 8:08 a.m.
Thread: Oilers team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>vinnylou</b></div><div>Ahmen bro!! But to be fair. He did " sign " Hoffman. Id take Hoffman any day of the week. He can skate. LoL. Neal just has the ability to score from any where.. he doesn't care how he shoots... Which is something I haven't seen in a long long time. To much hall and Eberle dusting the puck off!!.. I could see them moving Russell for the cap relief. Where..who knows. But Ottawa could be a good spot to rest for him since Bor isn't staying .. good cap hit without the pay ... Melnyk styles all day long

But we can't sign AA to a 2million contract unless it's in the offseason. BC his QA is 3+10% of his contract.</div></div>

Way I see it how many goals will Hoffman provide? 30 a fair realistic expectation? So spent an extra half million and took the team out of the running for a Seth Jarvis or Quinn or one of the 5-6 very quality options just to add what 5-10 goals?
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 5, 2020 at 2:01 a.m.
Thread: Oilers team
Move back 14 spots to remove 20-25 goals from the team. Makes a ton of sense....... How much does a consistent 20-25 goal scorer cost on the open market??
The over paid factor is over blown it’s not nearly as bad as made out to be. Think people are still looking at his one horrible year in Calgary after multiple deep playoff runs with Nashville and Vegas. Keep in mind he had a broken foot for half the season.
Not sure what that LA trade is... Khaira makes 1.2 million and just had the best pk % in the league.
Russell is a serviceable depth d that is owed less than half his cap hit really think teams with internal budgets wouldn’t be interested in him for the 1.5 million he’s only owed? God I hate this concept pay to remove players that just proved themselves useful makes zero sense