Normally I'd say nobody would be interested here but after seeing Granlund go for a 2nd with no retention (with years left on his deal) you really never know.
Friedman: Da Block is Hot: Tyson barrie given permission to talk to other teams
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Oleksiak
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He's far better than Barrie, and actually has a place on a legit NHL team. Barrie has never even attempted to learn how to play defence.
Since his first full season, he's 10th in the NHL for EVP among defensemen. So it tracks that his play style contributes to a high-octane offense. Unfortunately, the Oilers didn't have the quality of defensive defenseman required to make up for Barrie's obvious shortcomings in that regard.
He'll be getting past that point now, but you're kind of seeing the effect with the player he was traded for. A healthy Ekholm makes Bouchard (who is worse defensively than Barrie) worth the frustration.
Oleksiak
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The only pairing that works for Barrie is a plate of nachos in the press box.
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Barrie definitely seems to have some interesting "history" with some fans here, lol. He hasn't made it to 50 games with the Preds yet, but I don't actually see what all the angst is about. Sure, he's not good defensively. But we've had lots worse. I won't have nightmares about him or anything. We happen to have 6 better guys now that Stastney has come back up and the organization seems to finally be recognizing Fabbro again. So that makes Barrie expendable. But he is by no means "attrocious" or a "trainwreck" or anything. He has been mostly-adequate for us overall, with a few peaks and valleys.
Just, we don't have a steady offensive role for him atm. He seems to need to be The Guy on the PP, which we don't have available for him with Josi here. And probably there aren't many other teams out there either who don't already have somebody better. But if he hadn't asked for a trade, I doubt we'd be in any rush to move him this soon. He's not hurting us. He just probably wants out for his own reasons - i.e. to have his own PP to pump up his stats and get his next contract; he'll be turning 33 this summer, he wants to get some money before he's done. Doesn't look too promising for him on that front, but fair enough that he wants to try his hand somewhere else if at all possible.
Just, we don't have a steady offensive role for him atm. He seems to need to be The Guy on the PP, which we don't have available for him with Josi here. And probably there aren't many other teams out there either who don't already have somebody better. But if he hadn't asked for a trade, I doubt we'd be in any rush to move him this soon. He's not hurting us. He just probably wants out for his own reasons - i.e. to have his own PP to pump up his stats and get his next contract; he'll be turning 33 this summer, he wants to get some money before he's done. Doesn't look too promising for him on that front, but fair enough that he wants to try his hand somewhere else if at all possible.
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Cancuks
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He has negative value at his cap hit. Pred should just wait until the deadline retain 50% and then trade him for a $2 million cap dump and they could probably get a decent draft pick.
