Confirmed with Link: Oilers claim Colby Cave off waivers

[rickysusedsht]

Sweet played hockey with his dad. Colby is a good kid, should help out I hope

 

[frag2]

Oh look. A Bruin lol

 

[EchoesoftheEighties]

Sure, why not.

 

[dsi]

Colby Cave and the Bad Seeds

 

[frag2]

A former Bruin...surprise surprise

Does Chia know he can look at players outside the Mass/Tri-state region?

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

Chia legit troll8ng for a firing

 

[russ99]

Low risk move, Khaira was really struggling at center. Give the kid a few games at 4C see what he can do. If he's not working, toss him back on waivers.

 

[Faelko]

Over the roster limit by 1 now, maybe they can dump Spooner for a late pick to someone? Probably just Yamamoto sent down or is he on IR?

Edit: forgot about Gambardella

 

[Paralyzer]

In before all of HFOil flips out that we wasted an asset on Cave. Because, you know, HFOil flips out over even free assets.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Who?

 

[Llamamoto]

Solid AHL numbers? Until this AHL season he was pretty useless. This is probably the most pointless claim we have ever made.

Just looked at it again. Thought he's had those type of numbers for a few years. Completely useless.

 

[Zaddy]

I'm usually positive to these low-risk waiver moves, but I'm not sure what the point is of this one. Is he any better than Zykov even? If not, why give him up on waiver just to pick up this guy? Seems like just another dime a dozen bottom-six / fringe player. We have plenty of those already.

 

[CycloneSweep]

In before all of HFOil flips out that we wasted an asset on Cave. Because, you know, HFOil flips out over even free assets.

All depends on what we do after. If we lose a player better than him on waivers to claim him then yeah.

If not it's just a pointless move.

 

[frag2]

In before all of HFOil flips out that we wasted an asset on Cave. Because, you know, HFOil flips out over even free assets.

Free is only good when it's actually useful.

 

[McDNicks17]

Good Saskatchewan kid right there.

 

[Chef de Cuisine]

lmao

 

[nturn06]

A former Bruin...surprise surprise

Does Chia know he can look at players outside the Mass/Tri-state region?

On another hand, the #13-14 Forward in Boston should probably be #8-9 on our depth chart....

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

In before all of HFOil flips out that we wasted an asset on Cave. Because, you know, HFOil flips out over even free assets.

Is he really an “asset”?

 

[nturn06]

Free is only good when it's actually useful.

... yet when an asset is useless and ship him out it is the end of the world...

 

[joestevens29]

Is he really an “asset”?

To some degree. If he's no good he goes on waivers. He then either gets reclaimed or we add depth to Bakersfield.

Pretty sure we can use a better than PPG player in the AHL for the stretch.

 

[FlameChampion]

I prefer this to whatever trade Chiarelli is planning on making next.

At the same time, the coaching staff (both Hitchcock/McLellan) cant be bothered to play players like this. We seen it with Zykov, Gambardella, Marody etc, so whats the point. Hoping to catch lightning in a bottle? I have never seen a coaching staff play certain players so little. The pressure from the organization must be immense.

 

[McDNicks17]

Is he really an “asset”?

Depends how you look at it.

I bet if we had a guy over a point-per-game in Bako who has shown they can at least tread water on an NHL 4th line we'd consider him an asset.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Depends how you look at it.

I bet if we had a guy over a point-per-game in Bako who has shown they can at least tread water on an NHL 4th line we'd consider him as asset.

I guess I can’t really knock him until I watch him play.

 

[bone]

Over the roster limit by 1 now, maybe they can dump Spooner for a late pick to someone? Probably just Yamamoto sent down or is he on IR?

KY is still on IR. I'm wondering if you are counting Gambardella when you say we are over, because we're at 23 right now.

 

[nhlisajoke]

Cave is signed for next year as well, Gambardella got sent down