Recalled/Assigned: Nurse to OHL

[GMofOilers]

I like this move, I dont him to have any part of this gong show this season

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[CornKicker]

100% cant wait till WJC so we can cheer for a winning team

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Thank goodness for that...Nurse got a taste and now knows what he needs to do and next year he'll come back even stronger

get him out of this mess of a team

 

[Roof Daddy]

Our first good roster move? Cue the MacT/McMahon gif.

 

[Spawn]

The right move. There's lots to look forward to with Nurse. He's just not there yet.

Hopefully Draisaitl will follow in a week or so.

 

[GMofOilers]

The right move. There's lots to look forward to with Nurse. He's just not there yet.

Hopefully Draisaitl will follow in a week or so.

No doubt, IMO Nurse is more ready than Draisaitl

 

[CupofOil]

First smart move that they have made in weeks.

He should have never been up here in the first place IMO. Clearly not ready for the big show, but I'm confident that he will be next season.

Now, they need to call up Marincin and end this Hunt experiment. I wish that they could end the Nikitin and Ference experiments also, but that's not realistic so Hunt will do in the meantime.

Ideally, they send Draisaitl down too but i'm not so sure that Prince Albert is the best place for his development or Europe on the big ice for that matter so even though he looks a bit out of place at the NHL level, i don't think there's much of a choice in the matter but to keep him the whole season. Plus Yak finally has some chemistry with somebody so no need to disrupt that.

 

[Up the Irons]

Congratulations, Eakins/Mact. Your first correct move of the season.

 

[Spawn]

No doubt, IMO Nurse is more ready than Draisaitl

I disagree solely in the fact that Draisaitl can be hidden a little easier than Nurse could be.

But yeah. Draisaitl just doesn't look ready to compete at this level.

 

[ToeMcDrag83]

Glad pre-season is over.

 

[Eirhead*]

 

[frag2]

the only sensible the organization has done so far. now they need to get marincin up and ference gone

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

The right move. Now trade for a stopgap 2C and send Drai back too.

 

[s7ark]

Excellent. He should be as far away from this nightmare as possible. Let him go destroy the OHL

 

[KarmaPolice]

Good.

Is Eakins going with him? Learn to coach from a coach in the OHL that is probably 10 times better than he is?

 

[Gambl0r83*]

I'm going to go against the tide, I don't like this move. At least give him until the max amount of games allowed before sending him down. They put him on a back to back starting with S. Champs where he gets demolished, then they say oh, he needs another year. Oh my god, he wasn't given a fair chance at all.
A longer look and a couple more games of NHL experience would've been more beneficial imo.

 

[misfit]

Good move. It was nice seeing him get a couple of games in, but he's not ready for the team, and the team isn't ready for him. I'm actually glad they didn't wait the full 9 games too.

 

[I am the Liquor]

I'm going to go against the tide, I don't like this move. At least give him until the max amount of games allowed before sending him down. They put him on a back to back starting with S. Champs where he gets demolished, then they say oh, he needs another year. Oh my god, he wasn't given a fair chance at all.
A longer look and a couple more games of NHL experience would've been more beneficial imo.

 

[CupofOil]

I'm going to go against the tide, I don't like this move. At least give him until the max amount of games allowed before sending him down. They put him on a back to back starting with S. Champs where he gets demolished, then they say oh, he needs another year. Oh my god, he wasn't given a fair chance at all.
A longer look and a couple more games of NHL experience would've been more beneficial imo.

Not on this team with no lineup insulation.
He was getting worse in the Phoenix game and it was only a matter of time until his confidence was shattered.

Better to keep his confidence up and keep him away from this sinking ship as long as possible. There's still hope for him.

 

[Digger12]

While I would've liked to have seen how Nurse would look in a home environment where he could've had more favorable line matchups, ultimately I can understand it and it should be the best for him long term...and for this year, the Oilers aren't as desperate for him to succeed at this level as they are for Draisaitl since at D they at least have a modicum of depth.

Next year though, I think they'll absolutely have to make room for him. I think this will be a guy that won't need much AHL seasoning, if any at all.

Given the current depth chart:

Schultz
Marincin
Ference
Fayne
Nikitin
Petry
Klefbom

At least one of those guys will have to go.

 

[Jtown]

Thank god.

 

[Gone]

Honestly, I would of kept him up, as I am not sure what more he has to learn at the OHL level. Draisaitl though, MUST be sent down. He is too slow and unsure of himself at this level; he will learn nothing up here except how to digress as a player with his 8 minutes a night.

 

[JoeCool16]

I would've given him the full 9 as it's sadly clear that this is going to be a 'development year' in which we continue to gain rebuild assets and have our young players mature (in theory, if that actually happens that'd be great too).

It's better that he goes down now as opposed to not at all though. He got experience practicing with an NHL team, played exhibitions and even got into 2 actual NHL games, one against a tough opponent. That'll do, I suppose. I think Draisaitl should get the full 9 if he's going down though.

 

[thadd]

Sweet! Have fun at the World Juniors, Darnell!!!!

 

[Burnt Biscuits]

It was about damn time, he clearly wasn't ready for the show I don't know why our coach needed regular season games to figure that out. 1 more year of OHL and 1 WJC will do Darnell a world of good; next year I expect him to be a real contender to stick on this team permanently.

Draisaitl should be following him pretty quickly, MacT should tell his agent to find him a nice landing spot in the Swedish hockey league, and get busy working the phones for any reasonably decent defensive center with a smidge of untapped offensive potential. Hopefully MacT can get that done after about 2 more games and we can get a little more serious about winning hockey games.