Confirmed with Link: Schultz signs 1yr/3.9M

[Hockey Buddha]

Elliotte Friedman ‏@FriedgeHNIC · 17s18 seconds ago
EDM and Schultz settle one year at $3.9M

Not a big deal really. I was expecting this. The buy-out window is now opened. Interesting. UFA signing or a trade potentially? Who gets bought out?

 

[Bryanbryoil]

So now we will see if Chia has anything else up his sleeves.

 

[guymez]

umm the lowest he would have gotten was 3.68M based on the arbitration the Oilers took him to.

200K more than what he shouldve gotten but oh well. Better than walking away from him.

Yeah...no one should have a problem with this deal. The team has really limited in terms of what they could sign him for.

It would have been stupid to simply walk away from this player.

Now the interesting part of the process begins.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

He's not young he's 25. What he is, is generally what he'll be. He's a soft one dimensional dman.

He's played 2 full NHL seasons. Both coached by Dallas Eakins... its not like he's been in the big leagues since he was 18.

 

[dssource]

Glad to have him back on a one year show me contract. Price wasn't going to be much cheaper than this; this was the expected salary. He know he needs to earn the next contract so I expect a much better season from him this year. If he plays well enough to earn a huge raise, that's a good problem to have, especially if he still is RFA after this contract is done, which hopefully he is.

 

[Not Robin Brownlee]

He's played 2 full NHL seasons. Both coached by Dallas Eakins... its not like he's been in the big leagues since he was 18.

This, and its one year..

 

[Raab]

umm the lowest he would have gotten was 3.68M based on the arbitration the Oilers took him to.

200K more than what he shouldve gotten but oh well. Better than walking away from him.

Oilers are a better team without Schultz, and I'm one of the guys saying we need offensive dmen. J Schultz is BRUTAL. If he made 1.5M like he should be making it'd be fine, but signing him for 3.9M is BAD. The only contract worse then this is the 4.5M were paying Nikitin.

 

[McDeathbyCheerios*]

This, and its one year..

If he sucks waive him and he either gets picked up or he can dominate the ahl again

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Also, people staying 'walk away!!!' - just stahp. It's ridiculously bad asset management.

Let's see what comes of this, and let's see what he can do under competent coaching.

If you're willing to give our young forwards a pass for looking like junk under Eakins, you should be willing to at least admit that Schultz could look much better under new coaching too.

That, and until we added Sekera and Klefbom's emergence, he is the only defenceman we have that even knew where the offensive zone was.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Oilers are a better team without Schultz, and I'm one of the guys saying we need offensive dmen. J Schultz is BRUTAL. If he made 1.5M like he should be making it'd be fine, but signing him for 3.9M is BAD. The only contract worse then this is the 4.5M were paying Nikitin.

Actually its the money we are still paying MacT and Eakins but whatever.

 

[OilerFan4Life]

Okay so the buyout window closes on Friday right? Someone please confirm.

48 hours after settlement.

 

[Pressure]

Also, people staying 'walk away!!!' - just stahp. It's ridiculously bad asset management.

Let's see what comes of this, and let's see what he can do under competent coaching.

If you're willing to give our young forwards a pass for looking like junk under Eakins, you should be willing to at least admit that Schultz could look much better under new coaching too.

That, and until we added Sekera and Klefbom's emergence, he is the only defenceman we have that even knew where the offensive zone was.

Prime trade candidate for bubble teams around the trade deadline. Depending where we're at of course. If TM benches his ass then he's fodder and we could probably get a good pick out of him later on.

 

[PaPaDee]

A little more than I would have hoped, but at least it's done.

 

[Hockey Buddha]

Chia is holding up the other shoe by the lace...wait for it.

 

[Wheathead]

I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt of a season under McLellan and his staff.

If there's no change, he needs a change of scenery.

 

[Raab]

Also, people staying 'walk away!!!' - just stahp. It's ridiculously bad asset management.

Let's see what comes of this, and let's see what he can do under competent coaching.

If you're willing to give our young forwards a pass for looking like junk under Eakins, you should be willing to at least admit that Schultz could look much better under new coaching too.

That, and until we added Sekera and Klefbom's emergence, he is the only defenceman we have that even knew where the offensive zone was.

What young forwards played like crap under Eakins? Yak, I guess but his game grew, and I'd move him to if I could. Keeping questions marks like Yakupov and Schultz in important positions on the club are why we keep picking in the top 5.

 

[The Head Crusher]

How does this affect any potential buy outs now?

 

[StoveTopStauffer]

I don't like Schultz but it's funny how many people give other players (Yak) a free pass...bcuz "Eakins", but Schultz doesn't despite being in an even worse position.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

let's see what Jim Johnson does with him

 

[Raab]

Actually its the money we are still paying MacT and Eakins but whatever.

This is a MacT deal!! It reeks of his love affair with the golden boys!

 

[ChaoticOrange]

How does this affect any potential buy outs now?

If other posters and bloggers have their facts right, we should now have a 48 hour window to do whatever we decide to do.

Getcha popcorn ready...

 

[AlowlyMcOilersfan]

eh, it's only a year contract

hope he really does show us

 

[McDeathbyCheerios*]

What young forwards played like crap under Eakins? Yak, I guess but his game grew, and I'd move him to if I could. Keeping questions marks like Yakupov and Schultz in important positions on the club are why we keep picking in the top 5.

Yes but letting him walk is bad asset management. He could get us at least a 3rd. Much better then nothing.

 

[StoveTopStauffer]

What young forwards played like crap under Eakins? Yak, I guess but his game grew, and I'd move him to if I could. Keeping questions marks like Yakupov and Schultz in important positions on the club are why we keep picking in the top 5.

No it's not why we keep picking top 5. We keep picking top 5 because we had terrible management with terrible hiring skills and terrible drafting skills. Awful personnel throughout.

Those 2 players may not be great, but they are far from the reason why this team sucked.

 

[McDeathbyCheerios*]

This is a MacT deal!! It reeks of his love affair with the golden boys!

No MacT would of given him term and more money. 1 year is all Chia