Edmonton Oilers roster had they not made the Hall, Eberle and Reinhart trade

[Dion TheFluff]

Had the Oilers not made the Hall, Eberle and Reinhart/Barzal trades this is what i believe there lineup would currently look like

Maroon McDavid Draisaitl
Hall Barzal Eberle
Cammalleri RNH Puljujarvi
Caggiula Letestu Kassian

Klefbom Nurse
Sekera Russell
Benning Gryba

Talbot
Brossoit

Obviously a hole on the blueline with Larsson missing but i don't know how any team would be able to match up against those forward lines.
What team do you think is better?
Their current one or the one posted above?

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[Nick Hansen]

Cap problems would arise very soon.

 

[FlameChampion]

Halls a great player but I wouldnt trade Larsson back for him personally.

Eberle is no doubt a better player than Strome but Eberles time in Edmonton was up. Eberle can be a frustrating player to watch. He wanted out. I cant blame the player because the media/fan base wanted him gone for years and you cant blame the player for it eventually getting to him.

The Reinhart trade hurts though. Just an ugly trade.

 

[K Fleur]

But without Lucic they won’t have any toughness..or something.

 

[Del Preston]

The Oilers weren't going to draft Barzal. Eriksson Ek is the player they liked at #16.

Is this board ever going to move on?

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

If they drafted Tkachuk they could still have moved Hall for Larsson. They really should be a contending team right now if not for poor management

 

[Garbageyuk]

Chiarelli will ruin the Oilers and then ride off into the sunset.

 

[CanuckGame39]

The Oilers haven't been able to improve their Dcore in over a decade. How sad is that.

Those forward lines are deadly but how the **** do you struggle for a decade to improve your one glaring flaw?

 

[CanuckGame39]

Cap problems would arise very soon.

They are going to anyways. I believe they have almost 40 million dollars per year tied up in 5 players.

They are going to be the hawks, recycling league minimum scrubs, for depth, except have no cups to show for it.

 

[8816 others]

Those forward lines are deadly but how the **** do you struggle for a decade to improve your one glaring flaw?

The Leafs went that long without a true 1A centre. Turns out you just need to draft one at first overall. oh wait.

 

[Richardbro]

These types of threads bother me. Time doesn't work that way, there are too many uncertainties. Can't assume the time line would have stayed the same. We don't know if they would have drafted Barzal, we don''t know how well they would have done in the 2016 eason with Hall, probably wouldn't have gotten the #3 pick with Pujujarvi. Cammalleri trade probably wouldn't have happened, etc. etc. etc.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Had the Oilers not made the Hall, Eberle and Reinhart/Barzal trades this is what i believe there lineup would currently look like

Maroon McDavid Draisaitl
Hall Barzal Eberle
Cammalleri RNH Puljujarvi
Caggiula Letestu Kassian

Klefbom Nurse
Sekera Russell
Benning Gryba

Talbot
Brossoit

Obviously a hole on the blueline with Larsson missing but i don't know how any team would be able to match up against those forward lines.
What team do you think is better?
Their current one or the one posted above?

They wouldn't be as desperate to trade Hall for Larsson with that lineup, but they may still trade Hall for Larsson+. Imagine Hall for Larsson and 1st, and it becomes 1st overall, the Oilers would have had 5 1st overall picks in one decade and 1 of them came to them even when they made it far in the playoffs.

 

[PensPlz]

Odd how you didn't include the Schultz trade.... he is literally our best d man now.

 

[Dion TheFluff]

Odd how you didn't include the Schultz trade.... he is literally our best d man now.

Forgot about that one TBH he was more of just a rental trade though no?

 

[ThePhoenixx]

It's amazing how Eberle was overpaid hot crap while he was an Oiler and now that he is not, and is still having an under performing year, he is part of the greatest top six. Hall is a talented winger but he is a minus player on a plus team.


It's kind of fun reading the mains.

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Odd how you didn't include the Schultz trade.... he is literally our best d man now.

He was damaged from the Eakins years.

Pittsburgh saved his career.

 

[Hire Sather]

It doesn't work that way, you don't make those trades then everything changes

Respect the butterfly

 

[Ainec]

not an Oilers fan but if I was I would be very happy to see Eberle get traded.. unfortunately Ryan Strome isn't it

 

[Jumptheshark]

Oilers were not taking barzel

 

[General Disarray]

People need to stop acting like they traded Barzal. There is no guarantee they even select him. 16 other teams passed on his too.

Trading 2 firsts for Reinhart is still laughable, but what a team does with a pick has no barring on the actual trade.

 

[LeafFever]

It's amazing how Eberle was overpaid hot crap while he was an Oiler and now that he is not, and is still having an under performing year, he is part of the greatest top six. Hall is a talented winger but he is a minus player on a plus team.


It's kind of fun reading the mains.

Hall is a having a great year. I notice you used his +/- (And someone tpld me 2 days ago no one uses this anymore in another thread), but not his great offensive stats.

 

[OilCanada92]

You should probably subtract McDavid from the line up since they wouldn't be able to afford him.

 

[McShogun99]

He was damaged from the Eakins years.

Pittsburgh saved his career.

Schultz is Pittsburgh looks like the rookie version of Schultz. I don’t even understand how Eakins even has a job on an AHL team.

 

[oXo Cube]

I would undo the Hall trade if I could, but you're looking at the worst defense in the NHL right there. The one that really stings is Reinhart.

Also, I can't believe this needs to be said again, but anyone who thinks that the Oilers giving Schultz away was a mistake was just not paying attention.

 

[FissionFire]

The Oilers haven't been able to improve their Dcore in over a decade. How sad is that.

Those forward lines are deadly but how the **** do you struggle for a decade to improve your one glaring flaw?

Ask Ken Holland. He's been trying to acquire a top pair guy for about that long.