Player Discussion Anton Slepyshev back to the nhl?

[Trafalgar Sadge Law]

Zero consistency. Gets put up on a top 6 line during game shows flash of good. Put him there next game and he starts sucking. Hard guy to get a read on.

I'll take a guy who sucks every 2nd game over a guy who sucks every game (Lucic) any day of the week.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I'll take a guy who sucks every 2nd game over a guy who sucks every game (Lucic) any day of the week.

Lucic sucking every day of the week is still more productive and effective than Slepyshits

 

[Canovin]

Lucic sucking every day of the week is still more productive and effective than Slepy****s

Why would you take a 6M boat anchor over a 4th liner who can move up and down the lineup?

 

[Trafalgar Sadge Law]

Lucic sucking every day of the week is still more productive and effective than Slepy****s

Except not. Slepyshev factually outproduced Lucic in 2018 despite playing less games, less ice time per game, and far far less of those juicy power play opportunities, and actually threw more hits too. If you think Lucic was more useful than any other player on our team, then you didn't watch the last 50 or so games of the season

 

[CycloneSweep]

Why would you take a 6M boat anchor over a 4th liner who can move up and down the lineup?

Slepyshev can't move up and down the lineup because he is not a good player in any shape or form?

 

[Canovin]

Slepyshev can't move up and down the lineup because he is not a good player in any shape or form?

You telling me you never seen Slepy play on the 1st or 2nd line ever?

 

[CycloneSweep]

You telling me you never seen Slepy play on the 1st or 2nd line ever?

I have seen Mike Cammalleri and Kassian and Letestu play on the 1st and second line before. That's not a good thing.

 

[Trafalgar Sadge Law]

I have seen Mike Cammalleri and Kassian and Letestu play on the 1st and second line before. That's not a good thing.

We've also seen Milan Lucic do it all year long, and it's like watching a live abortion.

 

[CycloneSweep]

We've also seen Milan Lucic do it all year long, and it's like watching a live abortion.

And so was watching a nothing player with no history of being a good player.

 

[Consultant]

I'd hate to see him go, solid 3rd, fourth line player. Can shoot, take a hit etc.
So many years developing then right when he is ready to be a regular or could even impress with continued improvement next year we decide to cast him aside. All those years for not.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I'd hate to see him go, solid 3rd, fourth line player. Can shoot, take a hit etc.
So many years developing then right when he is ready to be a regular or could even impress with continued improvement next year we decide to cast him aside. All those years for not.

Ready to impress?
Dude had 12 points last year. Guy is a 4th liner at best. KHL is a decent fit. He is not even close to what Lander was here

 

[Jumptheshark]

And so was watching a nothing player with no history of being a good player.

In Russia was a good player

 

[CycloneSweep]

In Russia was a good player

In Russia he was average at best.

His best KHL season Hartikainen had 15 more points.

 

[Gord]

It's not rumors. Literally every single front office executive involved in hockey knows Chiarelli hated Slepyshev. I mean the guy publicly stated that he sent an email to every single NHL team that Slepyshev was available for trade, and of course other teams seeing Chiarelli say crap like this, know that we don't value him whatsoever, so they're not going to give any assets to get him and would rather give their own prospects a shot. Peter Chiarelli basically announced to the hockey world that we have no respect for this player whatsoever, and if your own GM doesn't respect you, other GMs aren't going to hold you in a positive light either, and as a player knowing that your GM thinks you're worthless despite you showing value via on ice play, and your coach would rather play a refrigerator on skates like Lucic despite you outplaying that buffoon pretty much every game of the season, you're not gonna want to stay either.

Peter Chiarelli is absolute cancer for this franchise. The tumor needed to be excised 2 years ago, but considering how our CEO is Chiarelli's best buddy Bob Nicholson, the imbecile running our team is going to ensure that this tumor becomes metastatic.

your hatred for chiarelli (and Lucic is over the top. WWE level bad.

to just argue one point. Chia should have been fired 2 years ago? feel free to give me a list of NHL GM's who have been fired after only 1 year.

 

[Trafalgar Sadge Law]

your hatred for chiarelli (and Lucic is over the top. WWE level bad.

to just argue one point. Chia should have been fired 2 years ago? feel free to give me a list of NHL GM's who have been fired after only 1 year.

If anything my hatred for Chiarelli isn't enough. And yes he absolutely should've been fired 2 years ago: the summer beforehand he shat the bed with the Reinhart trade, and then followed it up 2 years ago by trading Hall for Larsson and signing Milan Lucic to one of the worst contracts in hockey. They were moves that everyone from fans to media alike chastised from day 1 and as it turns out, they should've bashed him more.

 

[rboomercat90]

It’s a little frustrating to spend a few years developing a player only to see them bolt back to Europe. I guess that’s the risk you take with drafting Europeans. The pull to go home gets strong if they’re not progressing as fast as they think they should.

 

[Senor Catface]

My sources are telling me that Slepyshev is leaving.

By sources I mean I also just read things at Lowetide.

 

[Jumptheshark]

My sources are telling me that Slepyshev is leaving.

By sources I mean I also just read things at Lowetide.

same guys who told me we were signing him--remember the *** if the oilers trade his right by a certain date to a team Slepyshev can get on the same page with--he will stay--did lowetide say that

 

[joestevens29]

It’s a little frustrating to spend a few years developing a player only to see them bolt back to Europe. I guess that’s the risk you take with drafting Europeans. The pull to go home gets strong if they’re not progressing as fast as they think they should.

I was a little shocked and worried when he came so soon. Maybe another year or two in Russia would've been good for the guy. Him only being here now for year 2 he could've been a more rounded prospect. One that maybe would be looking at dominating the AHL, something he was never given the chance to do.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Maybe if slepy wanted more ice time, he should of been a better hockey player

 

[Jumptheshark]

in another unrelated matter the Oilers may offer Bogdon Yakimov a contract that will allow them to keep his rights--if that is so--that confuses me--it just means they keep his rights and it counts towards the 75 (I think it is 75) rights amount a team is allowed to have of players. They will also Q Slepyshev to retain his rights

 

[nabob]

Maybe if slepy wanted more ice time, he should of been a better hockey player

A more consistent player at least. His effort was lacking on many nights. The only games he was noticeable were games that he had been benched the previous game.

 

[syz]

He has a good shot and that's it. No matter who he was on the ice with he was never consistently able to make a play. Incredibly frustrating player to watch.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Good tools, no toolbox is how I'll remember Sleppy. Makes you wonder how much of it was on the player and how much of it was on the coaching staff?

 

[Del Preston]

Good tools, no toolbox is how I'll remember Sleppy. Makes you wonder how much of it was on the player and how much of it was on the coaching staff?

Confusing why the Lucic-Draisaitl-Slepyshev line never got put back together this season after the success they had in the playoffs.