With so many holes on this team should we consider trading McDavid to fix the problems

[Jumptheshark]

Since we have a tank thread--we might as well consider all options open to us

We are at year 4 of McDavid and falling fast..

here is the question--do we move McDavid(forcing the team to also take Lucic deal and any other bad contract we have) to get back players that address our so many holes?

whether we like it or not--the question will have to be raised how many more season will McDavid put up with playing on a bottom 5 team?

Obviously Chia Pet would be fired before he was allowed to trade McDavid as we might get 4 fourth liners back.

The problems on this roster are not turning around and the only viable assets we have are Leon D and McDavid--with McDavid being the more valuable

would McDavid stand by another rebuild of an organization that has been in rebuild mode for 13 years--we are now talking about rebuilding the rebuild of the rebuild of the rebuild

This is a discussion none of you want to have but we can trade only so many 3rd and 4th liners to try to plug the holes that they are too small to fit into--

So that leads to a bigger discussion

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[McDrai]

You keep McDavid unless he asks for a trade (pretty likely considering where things appear to be going)

 

[BeanBurrito]

Its sad, 4 years after the elation of winning the McDavid ultimate jackpot we have to talk about tanking or trading him.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The entire management needs to go before McDavid does.

 

[Cam98]

Dump everyone imo. Franchise needs a complete refresh.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Keep him and deal literally everyone else first.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

You keep McDavid unless he asks for a trade (pretty likely considering where things appear to be going)

Even if he asked I wouldn't trade him.

 

[Pizza!Pizza!]

Since we have a tank thread--we might as well consider all options open to us

We are at year 4 of McDavid and falling fast..

here is the question--do we move McDavid(forcing the team to also take Lucic deal and any other bad contract we have) to get back players that address our so many holes?

whether we like it or not--the question will have to be raised how many more season will McDavid put up with playing on a bottom 5 team?

Obviously Chia Pet would be fired before he was allowed to trade McDavid as we might get 4 fourth liners back.

The problems on this roster are not turning around and the only viable assets we have are Leon D and McDavid--with McDavid being the more valuable

would McDavid stand by another rebuild of an organization that has been in rebuild mode for 13 years--we are now talking about rebuilding the rebuild of the rebuild of the rebuild

This is a discussion none of you want to have but we can trade only so many 3rd and 4th liners to try to plug the holes that they are too small to fit into--

So that leads to a bigger discussion

As long as you don't trade McDavid to the Leafs or Penguins I would be interested to see how it would pan out. Remember the Oilers still won a cup after trading Gretzky, if you gut the core of a contending team that has depth, you could potentially foster an overnight rebuild as well.

Side note:
If Mike Keenan was your GM he'd likely trade McDavid for Tom Wilson and Lars Eller and if you had Mike Milbury then McJesus would be going to the Blues in exchange for Fabbri/Steen/JBO. Chia is the worst active GM, but definitely not the worst GM of recent times. Also don't forget how much McPhee sucks.

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

Hypothetically, I would do it...but I wouldn't trust Chia to do it.

Realistically, you would never trade a player like him but imagine all the pieces that could come back in a trade. There would be instantly no holes in this line up anymore.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

I saw them strip this team to the bone of Gretzky and Co because Pocklington was a tax evading pile of shit interested only in his pocketbook. They trade McDavid and I am done with the Edmonton Oilers.

 

[Soundwave]

Or try not hiring a buffoon for your GM. This will turn in a reasonable time frame with a decent GM.

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

Absolutely not.

We want to fill our holes we trade futures. Sell of our prospects for effective players, trade our 2019 1st, future picks, and go with it.

We don't have to give up the best player in the world to do so.

 

[RalphKing]

Keep McDavid as long as possible. Do not trade him. He has a long time left on his contract. Even if we are complete garbage for 3 years we will at least get players through the draft and maybe be competitive in the latter half of McDavid's deal. If he demands out then we're screwed because no freaking way we get good value for him with our knucklehead GMs.

 

[Soundwave]

This bozo is the problem --

There are multiple decent NHL people who could build a good team around McDavid. Time for someone else to get a chance.

 

[KarmaPolice]

This bozo is the problem --

There are multiple decent NHL people who could build a good team around McDavid. Time for someone else to get a chance.

That would be an excellent start. I think it's fairly close to happening.

 

[Boom not bust]

no way you trade McDavid. Him and Drai are locked up long term so as the cap slowly rises the team will have more funds to upgrade the roster. Hope some of the prospects pan out for a change.

 

[space321]

If we can get an Eric Lindros level return then sure. But like, with Chiarelli at the helm, no thanks.

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

no way you trade McDavid. Him and Drai are locked up long term so as the cap slowly rises the team will have more funds to upgrade the roster. Hope some of the prospects pan out for a change.

Oh boy. I am looking forward to that. /s

 

[Tyrolean]

Any talk of trading McDavid is idiotic. They will be 100 times worst if they did.

 

[MettleMcOiler]

I think that if you feel like you given up on the team. Then walk away for a bit and get your bearings with something you enjoy.

Now in response to your post. No, you do not trade Connor McDavid no matter how close you are at the edge of the ledge. You are just making the team worse with lesser players replacing him. He is the face of the franchise and it would probably kill many fans interest in the team. You want immediate help, a change that somehow will cause wins to happens and you will be happy for a bit and then we start losing again, and you are back to the same type of post of trying to sell off a valuable player just because you can't stand the emotion of loss. This is adversity, this is what separates ordinary and extraordinary people.






Fighting against adversity is not an easy battle and McDavid does not seem like a player that gives up easy, I bet he welcomes the challenge.
Whatever the reason, this is the hand we have been dealt. But many fans, especially new fair weather fans can't seem to take. But fans that have been here longer, suffered longer, endured longer are made of harder stuff and the joys of winning and lows of losing is what you signed up for when you cheer for a sports team, but it is takes a a different breed to cheer for the oilers. We care so much, we educate ourselves and breath the game. Fans take a loss personally, it is like a indication of how their life is going by the state of our team. Life seems brighter when the oilers win. We are that zoned in. Too many fans care too much about outsiders think, what they say, how they mock our team, our fans and our city.
Yes, changes will be made, yes we may have to rebuild again. But that is what we have to do until we get it right. But trading McDavid is a deathblow to this organization.
This is our adversity, the fans adversity to support the team that we have now. Voice for different management, if that doesn't change, voice with your wallets until it does happen. Make some lateral moves with a goalie or a defenceman. You do everything you can to build around McDavid. Just don't trade him. What ever happened in the past, trades, lotterys, signings, good and bad, its done. We can't go back. Accept the fact we can't win every trade and signing. No team does. Accept the fact we have a flawed team. Accept the fact we do have great players, useful support players and useless ones. Accept the fact you can't win every game and accept the fact the refs will never make fair calls on the team and McDavid.

The day when the stars align, and everything clicks for this team. When the team raises that silver chalice with McDavid as our captain. Everything we have endured, every failed trade, every loss will wash away when that chalice is raised. What is left is bliss. Just bliss.

And if you want that feeling in this lifetime.

Don't trade McDavid.

 

[Dashh]

we could get 2 more lucic's for mcdavid, that would be good.

 

[rambo97]

I’m not even reading the whole thread. Trading McDavid is the dumbest suggestion ever.

 

[oil85]

Notion of trading McDavid is idiotic and will never happen. Senior management will all go before such a request is made public. Hockey is a money making business and he's the generational face of the franchise - he represents hope which sells.

 

[Cypress]

GTFO

 

[Aerrol]

Lmao r u dum?


Seriously, trading McDavid might actually be the end of the Oilers in Edmonton as I think fans might actually stop showing up finally... Which might make Katz actually sell the team... Oh my God are you on to something here?!

For real though, this is just the dumbest idea possible in terms of a hockey move.