Agreed.
I disagree, yes Kassian has been average at best this season but he is one of the only Oilers that has any semblance of physicality in his game. I don't understand the logic that say's Kassian needs to be traded when all that will do is make a butter soft team even softer. Unless your trading Kassian for a Lowry or something I don't agree.
Gotta love how the coach put him on the second unit and he immediately negates the power play. Second straight game with a braindead penalty.
Simmonds is exactly the kind of player this team needed. I wonder though if players like him steer clear of Edmonton, not only because it is Edmonton, but because McDrai runs the room... Simmonds would bring TONS to this team, alas he's in Toronto where his leadership, and Spezza's, can shine through. Kassian cannot be mentioned in the same sentence.
Kassian is very much part of the reason this team is butter soft. Nobody fears him. Players goad him into taking dumb penalties. He's a liability. Any physical prowess he brings is minimal. Paying 3.2 to a guy who hits and does nothing else is asinine.
He certainly does need to increase his production and I would like to see him hit a lot more but he is the kind of body the Oilers need in a playoff scenario, and I remember just a few years ago when the Oilers should have made the western conference finals, Kassian was a freaking beast in those playoffs who made big hits and scored some timely goals.
Yes he was, and in the last two playoffs you'd forget he was even a member of the team. Clearly 2017 was an outlier.
Yup exactly. With Hyman out Now for maybe a couple of weeks, we literally don’t have any other scorers other than our two stars. I don’t even know how they started the season the way they did. I think it was just complete luck that the third line was producing and Connor and Leon came out on fire. This seems to be the true oilers. We will win some games because our two stars will have some big games, but I think this is our true identity. No talent in the bottom sex, no goaltending and a coach that has zero clue how to get This team inspired and ready to play. People are saying that Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl Are showing up late to practice, or are always the last ones on the ice. The team just seems extremely uninspired. Hopefully they snap out of this funk, but it’s not looking good
But Yamo is progressing and may progress in the next few years. I would not trade him in the situation in which the Oilers can miss the playoffs.
Yes let’s give away more young cheap contracts when we’re capped out and not the problematic contracts
