You don't understand the value of players on a consistent non-playoff team, look at the great returns for Hall/Eberle. You have to pay up for elite OilersI`d imagine that Oilers really want to get rid of Lucic? Getting Rask bumps RNH to 2C and Rask takes 3C. Faulk upgrades their defense by a lot. Skinner is a scorer that Oil really needs. Oilers get better with a trade like this, Canes also. Ofcourse there could be a 2nd added by Canes, but theres some value for both teams in this trade.
He is basically Jordan Eberle. Good for 50~ points and 28~ goals a season and absolutely putrid in his own zone. Was going to look at playoff stats but he has never played in them. He is a minus in every season except one, his rookie season, that is insane. Even a horrible defensive player like Eberle on a horrible Edmonton team had more plus seasons.He’s got three 30+ goal seasons, has played at a 29 goal pace per 82 games over his career, and is tenth in even strength goals since entering the league. I wouldn’t really call any of that ‘mediocre’.
Not sure why you bring up RNH. He did not miss games because of concussions which is what the issue is for Skinner.And only missed 5 games because of it. Ok instead of 5+, it was 3.6 years ago, but my point still stands. He had 1 really bad concussion (yeah, I know any concussion is bad) where he missed 16 games back in 2011/12 and another where he missed 6 (at the end of the season) in 12/13.
In the last 5 seasons, he's missed a grand total of 19 games: 11 for a wrist injury, 5 for a concussion (4 seasons ago), and 3 for illness/precaution. So his "health" concerns are 5+ years ago, but people still harp on it. Contrast to RNH who's missed 55 games over that same stretch of 5 seasons.
As I stated, his "health" concerns are vastly overblown by fans on HF because they are focused on stuff that, for the most part, happened 5+ years ago.
He pretty much summed it up. This threads gonna be a shit show.This is going to go well.
Oiler fans see Drai as just below god, who is below McDavid.
He is a minus in every season except one, his rookie season, that is insane. Even a horrible defensive player like Eberle on a horrible Edmonton team had more plus seasons.
No, what I am saying is they are both very similar players. Absolutely HORRIBLE in there own zone, atrocious. Listen I would not mind Skinner on the Oilers, but lets not act like he is some sort of groundbreaking player.You say this as if there is some material difference between Skinner's (-3) versus Eberle's +3 in 2016-17.
Which is a pretty hilarious hot-take considering that the Oilers as a team were +36 in 2016-17 versus the Canes (-18)
Not sure why you bring up RNH. He did not miss games because of concussions which is what the issue is for Skinner.