Miscellaneous NHL Talk V10.0 - 2018/19 Regular Season

[TCTC]

I liked this post in the Oilers thread where they say they need forwards:

*Drafts forwards 10th, 1st, 1st, 1st, 3rd, 1st, 4th, 22nd overall in last 10 years*

*Has no forwards*


How sad is that, folks?

Of all these forwards they picked the only top line players left are McDavid and Draisaitl. Nuge is what he is at this point, a 2nd line player at best. Hall is gone. Yakupov is gone. Eberle is gone. Paajarvi is gone. Puljujarvi is a bust.

Yeah, it's pretty sad.

 

[baudib1]

I want no part of a Jake for picks/prospects deal but I'm all aboard a Jake + for an established star, especially one that's better/younger like Seguin/Tarasenko.

 

[kudymen]

"I need to get a forward. I need you to give me a forward. A good forward has to go my way. Unless you have no forwards. Then I would take a goalie or a Dman. Or a forward."

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

Problem is Edmonton simply can't find serviceable bodies later in the draft.
Draft picks outside the first round who have played 200+ games:
Tobias Reider - #114-2011
Aaron Lander - #40-2009
Chris Vandervelde - #95-2005

 

[tictactoe]

I want no part of a Jake for picks/prospects deal but I'm all aboard a Jake + for an established star, especially one that's better/younger like Seguin/Tarasenko.

Nice wish....

 

[kudymen]

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250 of his 278 NHL games were for Jeff Hakstok, bleh

 

[baudib1]

Of all these forwards they picked the only top line players left are McDavid and Draisaitl. Nuge is what he is at this point, a 2nd line player at best. Hall is gone. Yakupov is gone. Eberle is gone. Paajarvi is gone. Puljujarvi is a bust.

Yeah, it's pretty sad.

They took Paajarvi 1 pick ahead of Ryan Ellis.
They could have traded down from RNH and taken any number of superior players, or they could have traded down to take Larsson, which would have saved them the ignominy of trading Hall for him.
2012 draft (Yakupov) was a disaster, I'll give them a pass.
Puljujarvi could have been Tkachuk or Keller.

Hall for Larsson is obviously a disaster. Turning Eberle into Strome into Spooner is also a disaster.

It really would have been hard to do worse given the fact that got McDavid and Draisatl in the middle of this.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Edmonton struggles to find players anywhere in the draft.

 

[tictactoe]

Of all these forwards they picked the only top line players left are McDavid and Draisaitl. Nuge is what he is at this point, a 2nd line player at best. Hall is gone. Yakupov is gone. Eberle is gone. Paajarvi is gone. Puljujarvi is a bust.

Yeah, it's pretty sad.

No.. sad is when you try to trade lucic... Because you traded for him 2 years earlier.. lucic and Manning on the same team is just depressing .

That group needs MacDonald.

 

[Beef Invictus]

They took Paajarvi 1 pick ahead of Ryan Ellis.
They could have traded down from RNH and taken any number of superior players, or they could have traded down to take Larsson, which would have saved them the ignominy of trading Hall for him.
2012 draft (Yakupov) was a disaster, I'll give them a pass.
Puljujarvi could have been Tkachuk or Keller.

Hall for Larsson is obviously a disaster. Turning Eberle into Strome into Spooner is also a disaster.

It really would have been hard to do worse given the fact that got McDavid and Draisatl in the middle of this.

Chia's ability to always make the team steadily worse with trades is something else. You'd think he'd accidentally win a trade at some point. Building around McDavid should be easy-mode GMing.

Edmonton is a farm team for the rest of the NHL.

 

[Beef Invictus]

No.. sad is when you try to trade lucic... Because you traded for him 2 years earlier.. lucic and Manning on the same team is just depressing . That group needs MacDonald.

Let's give them Simmonds

 

[tictactoe]

Let's give them Simmonds

One at a time.

 

[Rebels57]

Imagine that Edmonton offense if they kept Hall and Eberle, didnt sign Lucic, and drafted Tkachuk over Puljujarvi?

Tkachuk - McDavid - Eberle
Hall - Draisaitl - Whoever
Whoever - RNH - Whoever

That's a Cup contending forward core.

Also, Jarmo K doesn't get enough credit for drafting Dubois against consensus over Puljujarvi.

 

[baudib1]

Let us not forget that Edmonton is also in a cap crunch LMFAO.

 

[Rebels57]

Let us not forget that Edmonton is also in a cap crunch LMFAO.

Its truly baffling that a team with arguably the worst depth in the league is in a cap crunch lol.

Makes me wonder if we could pry Draisaitl and his big contract for a few younger assets to give them cap relief.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

250 of his 278 NHL games were for Jeff Hakstok, bleh

Good old Fartstol. Even the Oilers could see he was trash.

 

[wankstifier]

I'm not sure if a team has created more change in the league than Boston in the last 14 years due to high flux of talent--Thornton, Kessel, Seguin, Hamilton, Lucic all traded. How they've managed to not suck during that span is almost a miracle.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Chiarelli is doing the same bad stuff with cap/asset management that got him fired from Boston.

I’d honestly try to pry Yamamoto out of him over Puljujarvi in a Simmonds trade.

 

[wankstifier]

How much of a cap crunch do the Oilers really have? Sekera's LTIR contract is counted on CapFriendly, which gives the appearance that the Oilers are over their cap right now.

Chiarelli is doing the same bad stuff with cap/asset management that got him fired from Boston.I’d honestly try to pry Yamamoto out of him over Puljujarvi in a Simmonds trade.

Chiarelli can't seriously be interested in Simmonds, right??

 

[Striiker]

But don't forget: if you tank you are pure evil and worse than Hitler and destroying the sport and I hope you fail. Except if you are the Leafs, in which case you are brilliant and worthy of endless praise!

Well we’re not even tanking, we just suck this year, so even that doesn’t make sense if that’s what’s he’s mad about.

 

[Jtown]

Chiarelli is doing the same bad stuff with cap/asset management that got him fired from Boston.

I’d honestly try to pry Yamamoto out of him over Puljujarvi in a Simmonds trade.

ky all the way over jp.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

Chiarelli is doing the same bad stuff with cap/asset management that got him fired from Boston.

I’d honestly try to pry Yamamoto out of him over Puljujarvi in a Simmonds trade.

That would be a great pickup. Can he play wing? Johnny Hockey-esque skill set.

 

[Tripod]

 

[WPGDEVILS]

Neutral fan her but I was wondering what’s causing gostisbehere to be so horrible fantasy wise, I had high hopes and kinda reached on him and I was wondering what the people who watch him the most think of his performance?

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Neutral fan her but I was wondering what’s causing gostisbehere to be so horrible fantasy wise, I had high hopes and kinda reached on him and I was wondering what the people who watch him the most think of his performance?

He has struggled as have other players. His shots from the point on PPs miss the net, he has made bad decisions, including passing, in the neutral and D zones. Hopefully he can hit the rest button and this funk it is an aberration.