Confirmed with Link: Oilers sign Ryan Mantha

[Hockey Nightmare]

Our playoff pp specialist.

 

[Gone]

I forgive you Peter.

 

[McRobbiezyg]

thats cool. at worst he's ahl depth, thats pretty sweet!

 

[Del Preston]

He'll probably be in Bako for the end of this season according to Chiarelli.

 

[48g90a138pts]

Fantastic signing Chiarelli.

 

[40oz]

Brock Otten had him as his top OHL overager this year




edit: Spawn's post has the text you need

 

[McAsuno]

 

[Draiskull]

Chia probably made this move to make hfoil happy... We all love our prospects and potential...

make a hockey trade to help the team and then sign shiny looking WHLer to make the fans happy

 

[Hynh]

RHD prospect depth looking better every day. Him and Bear should both be pushing for PP duty in Bakersfield next year

 

[Canovin]

Chia really has his peaks and valleys. Signings like this is why we appreciate Chia. And then he has his blunders. I guess you win some you lose some.

 

[Aceboogie]

Next year Oilers will have Bear, Jones AND Mantha as AHL rookies. There has to be turn over somewhere. Currently for D prospects they have Reinhart, Osterle, Musil, Simpson. Maybe Osterle or Reinhart makes it as 6/7 D in NHL next year

Simpson-Reinhart
Musil-Mantha
Jones-Bear

Thats a pretty young D

 

[Draiskull]

Chia really has his peaks and valleys. Signings like this is why we appreciate Chia. And then he has his blunders. I guess you win some you lose some.

peaks are in the eye of beholder

Desharnais >> Mantha

will I get jumped on for saying that here?

 

[Aceboogie]

Chia really has his peaks and valleys. Signings like this is why we appreciate Chia. And then he has his blunders. I guess you win some you lose some.

His prospect signings are on point. Benning, Cagguila, Ellis (0.924 in rookie AHL season) are all looking really good.

 

[Draiskull]

Next year Oilers will have Bear, Jones AND Mantha as AHL rookies. There has to be turn over somewhere. Currently for D prospects they have Reinhart, Osterle, Musil, Simpson. Maybe Osterle or Reinhart makes it as 6/7 D in NHL next year

Simpson-Reinhart
Musil-Mantha
Jones-Bear

Thats a pretty young D

We might be walking away from 2 of Musil, Simpson, Oesterle and Laleggia next year.
Simpson and Musil seem to be career AHLers at this time.

 

[McRobbiezyg]

His prospect signings are on point. Benning, Cagguila, Ellis (0.924 in rookie AHL season) are all looking really good.

Its actually pretty impressive.. good for him

 

[Draiskull]

His prospect signings are on point. Benning, Cagguila, Ellis (0.924 in rookie AHL season) are all looking really good.

Does this make up for the loss of our 2nd rounder?
I think so.

 

[Seachd]

any relation to Anthony?

Doesn't appear to be.

 

[Seachd]

peaks are in the eye of beholder

Desharnais >> Mantha

will I get jumped on for saying that here?

Well now you have to be careful when talking about prospects, because the Oilers have two Desharnais, and people won't believe the young one is better than Mantha.

 

[Aceboogie]

We might be walking away from 2 of Musil, Simpson, Oesterle and Laleggia next year.
Simpson and Musil seem to be career AHLers at this time.

Musil id say is that. Simpson id give him one more year. Laleggia is up at forward and really producing up there. Id hold on to him to play him at forward next year. But tough to see an NHL future with him if hes a forward. Maybe an Arcobello type career. As a D hes probably done, at least with us. Osterle id try int he NHL next year, IMO I have a feeling hell end up better than Reinhart

 

[FanOfSadTeam]

Chia probably just wanted to get MacT and Lowe out of the office for some time....

 

[SupremeTeam16]

How would he compare to a guy like Phillippe Myer in Philly?

 

[Aceboogie]

Does this make up for the loss of our 2nd rounder?
I think so.

Benning more than makes up for that 2nd rounder. Not many 2nd round picks end up better than what Benning has been. Our last 2nd round pick to find similar success was Marincin

Cagguila id peg as equal value to a 2nd and who knows with Ellis

Dont let Flames and Nucks fans know this. But hes outplaying both Jon Gillies (in his 2nd year) and Demko is his rookie year (0.898)

0.924 sv% is highest rookie sv% in the AHL and actually 3rd best v% in the league. He deserves more love

 

[LaGu]

Next year Oilers will have Bear, Jones AND Mantha as AHL rookies. There has to be turn over somewhere. Currently for D prospects they have Reinhart, Osterle, Musil, Simpson. Maybe Osterle or Reinhart makes it as 6/7 D in NHL next year

Simpson-Reinhart
Musil-Mantha
Jones-Bear

Thats a pretty young D

That looks awesome, but I hope Reinhart will earn a spot with the big boys...

Oesterle instead of Reinhart?

Still a very interesting group.

 

[OneMoreAstronaut]

Wonder why the Rags didn't sign him.

Probably too busy filling their contract spaces with FA signings.

 

[RandyBobandi]

any relation to Anthony?

No he's not but his uncle is former NHL dman Moe Mantha who played over 600 games in the NHL