You’d be a terrible teammate. Why would you throw anyone under the bus? Imagine the crap the locker room would be filled with
It'd be so Oilers to pay a ransom for a guy who is having the worst year of his career. Is anybody in the NHL even close to his -29 right now? I get that he plays significant minutes for Arizona but nobody on that team is even close to his numbers right now all while he has only been able to chip in 7 points.
He has some good points and insights on what's happening right now.
It’s mostly the minutes played. He is allowing goals at the 5th highest rate on the team and 19 guys have a higher xGA rate than he does in the team. When a team is that putrid and you have your only good player playing that many minutes a lot of their results are not going to be a reflection on that player.
It might be the same nonsense as Tippett but he is able to sell it a lot better.
Well they would need to retain a pile to start with, so it wouldn't be the full $10 million. Koskinen as part of the deal opens up 4.5. It just depends on how much makes sense for the Habs to retain. I'd love to say that they retain 50%, and we includ Koskinen and Turris but they aren't paying Price 5.25M per year to play somewhere else so I'm not sure. Its just obvious that Holland doesn't care much about having to many old guys in the locker room.
Didn't seem to matter when OEL was doing the same thing, though. The real point is that last year was a major outlier for him outside of that every year he has played has seem him only on pace to put up 30 points a year if you are giving up what is being talked about (Broberg plus 2 firsts plus more) I want somebody who can do significantly more. The guy has 3 more years before UFA in which he'll probably want Nurse money.
His teams at least didn't give up a ton of goals compared to the rest of the league.
Points wise yes, but his defensive play has been mostly good his entire career, where OEL has really struggled for the last long while defensively. The other issue with OEL was the massive risk of his contract. Since Chychrun started playing he has had better defensive numbers than OEL every single year.
When has he ever been a top 20 defender? The guy is on pace for 22 points this year. Where is the buy low when people are talking about Broberg and 2 firsts as a return? The only year anyone can say he was top 20 was when he was playing the same 7 teams 8 times a season.
To be clear I'd gladly take the guy on this team but not for the absurd proposals I've seen in this section and the main board. I mean the guy has played 1 full season in his entire career and it was during a shortened covid season. He's missed 90 plus games in his first 5 seasons in the league and is injured again this year. The guy has red flags all over him right now.
He got fired in Calgary quick too.
If they wanted out we would start a rebuild and trade them for the most amount of draft picks and good prospects possible. So the team would be a bottom feeder trying to find a McDavid/Draisaitl again but hopefully with a real defence and goaltending too.
