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The news better come before school starts tomorrow.We’re expecting pics if it happens now
The news better come before school starts tomorrow.We’re expecting pics if it happens now
I think waiver claims are announced at 10am.If the Canucks take him, I will wear shorts tomorrow
I'll wear them on the way home. School starts at 8:50 AM for meI think waiver claims are announced at 10am.
With our luck the Canucks will pick him up and play him against us on March 7 to injure McDavid again.
See now that quote is from a coach who isn't going to say the opposite and the key word in his quote is "trying to help". That's kind of an underhanded compliment to me.
Chiarelli, ultimately was the one who signed off on the trades, not the AGM and as has been beaten to death, by his own admittance was chasing Manning for over a year.
Gretzky trading Spooner and trying to trade Manning (now putting him on waivers) is a sign to me he wasn't on board with these moves and in no business operation would an AGM's words or wishes supercede the GM. As I said to the other poster earlier today, we won't ever know what other returns were on the table. Maybe Petrovic was the guy Gretzky suggested they pursue. Pretty suspicious how two of Chiarelli's guys are gone and Petrovic is still around (R/S, UFA-I know).
We can discuss until we're blue in the face over who we think was on board with trading who for whatever return and in the end no one knows except the people employed with the Oilers executive.
You've got the words directly from the coach highlighting the role that the assistant GM made in the acquisitions. The only way to argue against it is to believe that for some reason Hitchcock was lying. Which makes no sense. Why would a coach even bring up the assistant GM if he didn't play an integral part in the acquisitions?
And you're right, Chiarelli was ultimately the person who signed off on the deals. All the deals. Thank god that idiot is fired.
But I don't buy for a second the BS narrative that Bob Stauffer has been selling, and some have apparently been buying, that Chiarelli was some rogue ignoring the sound advice from everyone else in the organization.
Gretzky is as much a problem as any of them.
But hey, he traded Spooner for a former fan favourite (who also happens to have lost his job in the NHL and costs us more money to bury next year or buy out). So he must know what he's doing.
Wow. You should consider a career in sales, mate!Take him Nucks, he’s actually “Really Good” and totally “Not Terrible”... just not a good fit here. Great “Character” guy with tons of “intangibles”, good “locker room presence” and all that.
You've got the words directly from the coach highlighting the role that the assistant GM made in the acquisitions. The only way to argue against it is to believe that for some reason Hitchcock was lying. Which makes no sense. Why would a coach even bring up the assistant GM if he didn't play an integral part in the acquisitions?
And you're right, Chiarelli was ultimately the person who signed off on the deals. All the deals. Thank god that idiot is fired.
But I don't buy for a second the BS narrative that Bob Stauffer has been selling, and some have apparently been buying, that Chiarelli was some rogue ignoring the sound advice from everyone else in the organization.
Gretzky is as much a problem as any of them.
But hey, he traded Spooner for a former fan favourite (who also happens to have lost his job in the NHL and costs us more money to bury next year or buy out). So he must know what he's doing.
If anyone watched the games, Manning had actually played fairly well the past 6 or 7 contests he was on the ice. Absolutely not as bad as everyone makes him out to be. He’s perfectly fine as a 5/6 D-man.
Then hopefully someone takes him for free on waivers.If anyone watched the games, Manning had actually played fairly well the past 6 or 7 contests he was on the ice. Absolutely not as bad as everyone makes him out to be. He’s perfectly fine as a 5/6 D-man.
If anyone is unable to view the embedded tweets, they are both from Rick Dhaliwal-Vancouver SN reporter and this is what they say:
"If Tanev is out for a while which I hear could be a possibility, wonder if Canucks would have interest in Brandon Manning who is on waivers."
Bottom tweet:
"Not saying they going to claim him but they have shown interest in him in the past. If Tanev out long term - they have to add I think."
Fingers crossed, three hours to kill until we find out.
Well I'm sure it's been talked about to some degree as we did just make another deal with them. I'd assume they'd want us to retain. Even take a bad contract on. Tim Schaller?
Edler, Tanev, Sutter, Baertschi, Demko, Virtanen all on the IR. Vancouver 6 points up on us
I’m not convinced of this. Hithcock’s Comments thanking Gretzky for his work landing Manning and Petrovic suggest otherwise. What it looks like to me is the organization is in serious damage control right now.Looks more and more like Stauffer isn't just dumping bags of lye on Chiarelli's career corpse just because...these moves KG has made really signify Chiarelli put himself on an island and made these moves against everyone else's thoughts.
If anyone is unable to view the embedded tweets, they are both from Rick Dhaliwal-Vancouver SN reporter and this is what they say:
"If Tanev is out for a while which I hear could be a possibility, wonder if Canucks would have interest in Brandon Manning who is on waivers."
Bottom tweet:
"Not saying they going to claim him but they have shown interest in him in the past. If Tanev out long term - they have to add I think."
Fingers crossed, three hours to kill until we find out.
I mean..they will fall down to us, we ain't catching anybodyIf they claim Manning and play Spooner we may be able to catch them....
Spooner will find his game and Manning will be good. Oilers way.If they claim Manning and play Spooner we may be able to catch them....
Rather clear up the cap space and sign one of the big fishes in the offseason.Spooner will find his game and Manning will be good. Oilers way.