Pre-Game Talk: Oilers in the SENS Den, Thurs 7:30 TSN | Cheap Beer Edition

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

Burrows is seemingly getting a lot of ice time...

 

[Micklebot]

Wolanin is pretty good when given time.

 

[branch]

And people want to keep the pick if it’s outside the top 5 his year.

 

[Micklebot]

Burrows is seemingly getting a lot of ice time...

Last couple shifts by that line have at least been decent shifts.

 

[solidprospect]

This was a glaring problem coming into this season and they ignored it(or just didn't want to spend any more on D). I doubt they'll do anything about it going into the next one.

Many want us to sign De Haan. Other than that it could be our 1st round pick or we trade for one. The 1st round pick would be 2-3 years away from NHL though.

Then you have to address a few forward spots because we need more skill up there as well.

 

[Ray Kinsella]

And people want to keep the pick if it’s outside the top 5 his year.

It’s such an overwhelmingly unknown next season!

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

Many want us to sign De Haan. Other than that it could be our 1st round pick or we trade for one. The 1st round pick would be 2-3 years away from NHL though.

Then you have to address a few forward spots because we need more skill up there as well.

That's great and all, but the team doesn't even have the space to fit Stone and Ceci's new contracts in under their budget let alone raises for Duchene and Karlsson. There's no way you sign a De Haan caliber D without moving out Karlsson or Hoffman's salary in trades or (super unlikely) dumping Ryan or Smith AND Burrows.

 

[Micklebot]

Strong PK.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Missed the game until 2 minutes left in the 2nd.
Free beer. Free Pig on a spit BBQ with extras.. Awesome

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Good PK.

 

[Micklebot]

Ceci with some strong plays to exit the zone in back to back shifts.

 

[ToastrStutzle]

Burrows, to his credit, has really been trying a lot harder since he was waived.

He still sucks, but a little less bad.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Burrows is seemingly getting a lot of ice time...

Burrows

Per SHF AVG TOI EV TOT PP TOT SH TOT 1 5 00:46 03:53 03:53 00:00 00:00 2 8 00:41 05:30 03:25 01:09 00:56 TOT 13 00:43 09:23 07:18 01:09 00:56 [TBODY] [/TBODY]

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Chlapik

Per SHF AVG TOI EV TOT PP TOT SH TOT 1 6 00:47 04:45 04:45 00:00 00:00 2 6 00:37 03:47 02:34 01:09 00:04 TOT 12 00:42 08:32 07:19 01:09 00:04 [TBODY] [/TBODY]

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

 

[solidprospect]

That's great and all, but the team doesn't even have the space to fit Stone and Ceci's new contracts in under their budget let alone raises for Duchene and Karlsson. There's no way you sign a De Haan caliber D without moving out Karlsson or Hoffman's salary in trades or (super unlikely) dumping Ryan.

We have $16.5M in cap space next year, if we wanted to spend close to the cap like we did starting this season. Stone and Ceci would cost $10-11m, hopefully less than $5m for De Haan, then worry about Karlsson and Duchene after next season.

But if we can't get De Haan then who else is there. 2 year rebuild

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Burrows, to his credit, has really been trying a lot harder since he was waived.

He still sucks, but a little less bad.

#theFuture You have to let the kids play

 

[Korpse]

At this point I'm starting to wonder if Claesson gets a contract for next season.

 

[TheNewEra]

At this point I'm starting to wonder if Claesson gets a contract for next season.

it doesnt look like it which sucks because i like his play more then a few of our 3rd pairing guys

but would gladly let him walk if we can actually replace him with a more consistent top 4 guy

 

[ToastrStutzle]

At this point I'm starting to wonder if Claesson gets a contract for next season.

I personally would not offer him a 1-way. He's not an NHL d man imo

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

At this point I'm starting to wonder if Claesson gets a contract for next season.

He had an excellent opportunity to step up this year and did not take advantage. He has not proven himself to be better than a #6 and there are a lot of D with likely more upside to compete with at that spot. He has done nothing to separate himself

 

[BonkTastic]

I personally would not offer him a 1-way. He's not an NHL d man imo

Yep. If he's not willing to take a 2-way deal, I'm 100% fine letting him walk.

If he takes a 2-way deal from us, then he is cheap injury insurance we can stash in Belleville. If he walks, we really haven't lost anything of value.

Claesson just doesn't do any one thing well enough to make up for his complete lack of ability to read the game at the NHL level. He's just not worth a 1-way roster spot/ contract.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

What is claessen doing with the puck like what the f***

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Claesson is odd. He showed some really nice flashes of ability last season, and had some good games. Seems like that Claesson was abducted by aliens and replaced by a pod.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Ceci ... could produce more if he didn't need to dust it off and think about it

 

[ToastrStutzle]

Nice move from Duchene

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

nice goal