News Article: Larsson on LTIR (6-8 weeks, broken fibula)

[Jimmi McJenkins]

LTIR doesn’t work on bonus’

My apologies, though they are wanting to avoid putting Brodziak on it until they absolutely have to.

 

[Skolman]

Ya that's not good, but I'm excited to see Bouchard in the lineup.

 

[Del Preston]

Waiting for someone other than Gregor to confirm the paper transaction.

Hey Oilers fans. What is the situation about your goalie? I have Koskinen in my pool and im wondering if hes gonna play a lot. Thanks

The Oilers are going to play the hotter goalie. They don't have a set starter, though if Smith plays like last night he'll get most of the games.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

This is why we shouldn't have bought out Sekera. I'm guessing we move Russel into Larsson's spot now.

Nurse-Russel
Klefbom-Bouchard/Bear
Manning-Benning

The oilers didn’t have the cap space to keep him.

 

[tiger_80]

A chance for younger players to show what they got. This is not the end of the world. Bouchard and Jones showed last year they can play in the NHL. Persson and Bear may help too to get through the stretch until Larsson returns.

 

[McJesusSaves97]

This is why we shouldn't have bought out Sekera. I'm guessing we move Russel into Larsson's spot now.

Nurse-Russel
Klefbom-Bouchard/Bear
Manning-Benning

Nah, Benning. He had 2 points

 

[BudBundy]

Well, that’ll nicely kill my hopes of Bouchard winning the Calder next year because if he gets into 50 or so games, he’s screwed. I hope it’s Larssons foot not his back from a long term POV.

On the upside, my 83 point season prediction is looking really good now. If anybody is looking for me, I’ll be in the 2020 draft thread.

 

[McDNicks17]

It’s weird that they would try to maximize LTIR.

Realistically, the only way for them to use that is if Larsson is out for the whole season.

 

[Morpheus]

Waiting for someone other than Gregor to confirm the paper transaction.

Tippett presser @12:15 pm
Likely on 630 cheddar

 

[Dan Kelly]

I'm just gonna hazard a guess here... Rasmus Ristolainen?

Sure why not? Great offence but never learned how to play defence. He’ll fit in fine here!!

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

...broken ankle? How long do those take to heal?

 

[Fourier]

Could the Bear part of it be a paper thing? Something with the LTIR cap space? I don't know, seems very weird that they would send him down after 1 game. Just doesn't make sense

Flipping Bouchard for Bear gets them almost right up to the cap before putting Larsson on LTIR. This gives them a bit more space to work with.

 

[Snowpants]

May he blessing in disguise may force Holland to trade for a dman like he should have in the summer

 

[Fmrnuckfan95]

Bear did not look good at all last night. Larsson took a shot off the foot and was hobbling around so I'm not surprised.

 

[Dan Kelly]

My guess is maybe they think Bouchard is ready now and that Bear was just a tad slow?

 

[Hopelesslucicfan]

Bear did not look good at all last night. Larsson took a shot off the foot and was hobbling around so I'm not surprised.

What? Bear looked fine last night.

 

[CycloneSweep]

...broken ankle? How long do those take to heal?

For a skater? Months

 

[Fourier]

If it was a weird paper transaction they wouldn't have recalled Bouchard.

The difference between Bouchard's salary and Bear's pushes the Oilers closer to the cap. That allows them a little more room with the LTIR relief. Not a big deal unless they are thinking about a possible trade.

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

 

[TheNumber4]

Wow..... same old Oilers injuries and bad luck. We’ve seen this before, an already mediocre defence now gets decimated due to injury.

That being said, I was complaining about our defence all last night, mostly on their continued ability to do anything offensively or be able to move that puck quicker. So maybe a blessing in disguise as we now have a guy like Bouchard up...

But most likely this will kill us cause 3 rookie d-men plus Benning plus Russel is recipe for disaster

Ughhhhh Oilers

 

[The Safe Play]

If Russell plays right D this team is done again. It's time to see what Bear Persson and maybe Bouchard can do. We need puck movement on the top two pairs.

Klefbom Bear
Nurse Persson
Russell Benning
Manning

If Persson or Bear struggles you go with Bouchard.

Could also trade for Pysyk or another stopgap D.

 

[Hopelesslucicfan]

I'm really surprised they're calling up Bouchard over Lagesson or Jones.
Lagesson would be more suited to slot into a shutdown role, and Jones isn't going to burn a year of RFA + needs waivers next year.

They must really really like bouchard.

Edit: Unless bouchard isn't actually coming up, and was strictly for capspace and someone else will be recalled with bear before the game.

 

[nhlisajoke]

Bouchard wont even get on a plane unless Persson isnt ready for Sat

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Klefbom-Bear was our best pairings last night and Nurse/Larsson were pretty bad and unlike the majority in this thread I don't think it'll be nearly as bad as people are making it out to be. Hell half this board has been shitting on Larsson all preseason/last year/last game like he was a negative to the team but now losing him for a month is what will sink the team? Hopefully Bouchard is kept up and him and Bear/Perssons get extended looks because adding more offensively minded D isn't a bad thing imo.

 

[Jesus Take the Wheel]

I'm really surprised they're calling up Bouchard over Lagesson or Jones.
Lagesson would be more suited to slot into a shutdown role, and Jones isn't going to burn a year of RFA + needs waivers next year.

They must really really like bouchard.

Bouchard has a higher cap hit, thats why he is called up for the purposes of a paper transaction