Confirmed with Link: Oilers claim Colby Cave off waivers

[McDNicks17]

I expected people to find the chart interesting in the same way that people track the Lindros trade, not to think that I actually cared about the trade results.

At best it speaks towards an organization that doesn't retain asset value that well.

Players don't retain value though. Should be pretty obvious that their value goes down as they get older and get closer to the end of their contracts.

The Oilers actually did really well in that trade long term. Check out what the Blues and Ducks ended up with after trading him. The Blues have Jordan Binnington and the Ducks have nothing left(and basically nothing of substance along the way).

 

[Aerrol]

I feel like they're just picking up players with names that give Gene pun material.

Lol I'm actually down with this strategy.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Hope he meshes with Khaira. Could be a good bruising line.

This stuff starts to flag for me after awhile. "Quality individual"

The contact may as well be Chiarelli himself blowing wind and its his type of vernacular. As if poor GM's and poor NHL clubs are good at assessing what in individual is actually like.

Pakarinen was a quality individual in every way. hard nosed on honest player, rarely scored against, good on pk, bottomsix, hit everything that moved. We devalue players like that who actually exhibit they can be low cost fill players that are at worst even players and then we go searching for Colby Cave because he had a Boston prior.

I'm absolutely fed up of seeing Boston castoff fill here. I feel like Bruins are our older brother or something. I'm not wearing these hand me downs anymore..

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

Not f***ing around.

 

[soothsayer]

This guy is what happens when Daniel Tosh and Calibos from the original Clash of the Titans have a baby.

 

[bone]

Not ****ing around.

 

[fancy dan]

Players don't retain value though. Should be pretty obvious that their value goes down as they get older and get closer to the end of their contracts.

The Oilers actually did really well in that trade long term. Check out what the Blues and Ducks ended up with after trading him. The Blues have Jordan Binnington and the Ducks have nothing left(and basically nothing of substance along the way).

except a cup.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Not ****ing around.

"I must break you."

 

[Panda Bear]

Players don't retain value though. Should be pretty obvious that their value goes down as they get older and get closer to the end of their contracts.

The Oilers actually did really well in that trade long term. Check out what the Blues and Ducks ended up with after trading him. The Blues have Jordan Binnington and the Ducks have nothing left(and basically nothing of substance along the way).

This is all fine. Yes, I'm happy with Klefbom.

The only reason that I posted the chart was because of ramrod (I believe) who mentioned the trade.

 

[Nostradumbass]

This is all fine. Yes, I'm happy with Klefbom.

The only reason that I posted the chart was because of ramrod (I believe) who mentioned the trade.

Because someone was saying we traded eberle for nothing. I just took it back further.

 

[McDNicks17]

Because someone was saying we traded eberle for nothing. I just took it back further.

Pronger is actually part of a bigger trade tree.

It all started with the Messier to Rangers trade, so they traded Messier for Spooner.

Messier > Rice > Marchment > Hamrlik > Brewer > Pronger.

 

[KarmaPolice]

As long as he's not a complete black hole offensively (har har!) and is dependable defensively while laying out some hits, he could be a decent addition. He'll probably do fine in the 4C spot, but we shall see.

 

[Okanagan]

At least Chia didn’t get his head Caved in on another trade.

 

[Shathar]

At least Chia didn’t get his head Caved in on another trade.

yet

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

In the line-up tonight.

Khaira - Cave - Puljujarvi

 

[McDNicks17]

In the line-up tonight.

Khaira - Cave - Puljujarvi

The KhaCaPu line.

 

[MessierII]

He played a good game I thought.

 

[AM]

I bet Spooner could light up Pronger no problem.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Held his own and had a nice chance. I like it so far.

 

[Drivesaitl]

By default Colby Cave looks better than Spooner or Yamamoto.

 

[ujju2]

Maybe a pretty good pickup. Who knows, maybe Chia knows a thing or two about players he signed.

To be fair, I hate Chia as much as the next guy, but I just found it annoying how people were knocking the claim. It's a free player and fills a need. Hope he works out well, good first impression for me.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Still do not understand why we picked him up

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

Still do not understand why we picked him up

He's better than Spooner and Khaira at 3rd/4th line center.

 

[tiger_80]

things to do next off-season: get rid of Spooner, Manning, Benning, and maybe Lucic. That's like 14 million of wasted cap space or 2 6 million dollar players and a quality bottom 6 forward.

 

[space321]

can't believe we actually traded FOR spooner...