Well Douglas,the Islanders are now on their heels,you waited to long last game was ALL YOURS...so now you need to tell yourself that Moma2 and the NHS
assisting in real-time would not have gotten you over that hump....good luck with that Dougie.
I will make the assumption the Isles are toast now sans NHS analysis.
Nothing personal Doug but you need to come to Moma2 or simply buck it up and take your BadMedicine.
Moma2 is glad the Oilers are golfing and the thankless Kings and Hawks are toaster Struedel .
Moma2 is done with the drama,the advanced/enhanced stats pirates have sunk their own ship and embarrassed themselves and the Franchises who hired them
now must egress from their contractual obligations and vestments or continue to suffer hem embrrrasment of stats catalysed failure.The National Hockey
League must continue to divest itself from the associations with advanced/enhanced stats ASAP....the NHL needs highly charged offense again,its been
decades and decades and now the league needs to gain impetus to support NewAge growth.
The Oilers need to sit tight,trade the pick with any of Pouliot,Hendricks,Fayne,Sekera,Ference,Hall,Ebbs,......anyone except Hopkins and McDavid and
Draisaitl and Nurse......this team is building from the middle out now......3 TOP NOTCH SKILLSET CENTERMEN who will carry this Franchise together for
a DECADE......no one would ever be stupid enough to seperate these 3 very very good Centermen....the Oiles were STARVED FOR CENTERMEN FOR AN ENTIRE
DECADE.....now they have 3 Aces.
The reality is that the Oilers MUST keep long term balance amongst their Centermens salaries NOW....soooooo....they are in a position now to use
McDavid and his evolving potentials to play the odds they can hold RNH for his contract then sign him again reasonably while they bring Leon up to
RNHs levels,ASSUMING MCDAVID can produce PPG or more.
So unfortunately the big money used to solidify Hall and Ebbs must come off the books,same with Ferences dollars and Pouliots ,Sekeras and a few
others....the paydays have to be reset to pay 3 Centers and 2 Stud d-men........this is where things should end up.Time to see if Slepyshev can
replace Hall and Yakupov can replace Eberle saving LOT of dollars......after we MUST credit respect and support our Centermen properly which the
OILERS have NOT done .The very solid skillsets of the Oilers Centermen will support offense from ANYONE....so we keep the lowball salaries like Nails
and give a few wingers shots at making the Club and spread our dollars between 3 Centers and 2 Stud D-Men who agree to ALL sign long term.......then
make everyone fight tooth and nail to come play with McDavid-NugentHopkins-Draisaitl-Yakupov-Nurse-Shattenkirk-Subban-Keith.
So how to get Subban-Shattenkirk-Keith using Hall and Ebbs and the 4th Overall pick......end of story.....the frank reality is that the Oilers have
beyond all hope expectations and odds become Center-Strong with young men.....reminds me of the Hawks......now they simply need to move heaven and
Earth including EVERYONE but the above core....Hall and Ebbs and EVERYONE else is on the block to bring in the 3 d-men the Oilers need to add to
Nurse ,Reinhardt and Paigan.
I say reset completely now that McDavid has forever changed the Timeline.....build from the Middle OUT....put your Cap dollars where you need to to
support 3 Centers and 3 Stud D-men.
There is no money for 6 million dollar Wingers...NHL wingers are like chicken wings a dime a dozen.Why pay for Kobe beef when you are getting
chicken-wings?????
McDavid.....7 million......Hopkins....6 million....Draisaitl....5 million......long term gentlemans agreement to take over the Franchise with the
incoming Stud d-men.Some green Hockey Managers might see RNHs contract as a driver to move him,I see it as a salary-cap 6 million dollar anchor for
the next decade of Oiler hockey.Shattenkirk...4.5 million....Keith.....7.5 million.....Subban 2.5 million.32 million of Cap Space for your big
guns.
NHL Teams choose where to become strong based on where they put their cap dollars.
Thats the final word on the Oilers....a new Core is taking over,Yakupov and Nugent-Hopkins will survive the changes,and sympathetic salary structures
will catalyse their longevity.
Hall and the pick for Keith.......Eberle and Davidson for Shattenkirk.....Pouliot and Klefbom+ for Subban.......be willing to mix it up and commit
long term with some gamble involved and throw in the 2017-2018- 2019 1st Rd. Picks if need be.........Done deals.
Maroon-McDavid-Yakupov.....everyone is solid gold with McDavid .
Slepyshev-Hopkins-Kassian....Nuge is wayyy better offensively than he gets credit for.
Hendricks-Draisaitl-Pakarainen....Draisaitl will have to do some heavy slogging .
Gadzic-Lander-Cracknell.
Looks like a truculent stubborn group with lots of size able to score from 3 lines.A 3 line offense.
With this studded defense.
Keith-Shattenkirk
Subban-Nurse
Sekera-Paigan
Reinhardt-Gryba
The Oilers can COUNT ON some BIG NAMES being willing to come in and give up money to get a chance to usurp and upgrade our entire bottom 6 save
Draisaitl.Leon will have some high quality skilled perfectly fitted linemates within one season.Slepyshev is a sure bet and simply needs the ice-time
to acclimate and produce goals but from what I have seen Slepyshev is a very good defensive player maybe budding PK or PP specialist.
But lets face it no one is scoring on this defense for 5+ years.
Shatttenkik,Keith,Subban,Sekera ,Gryba with Nurse, Reinhardt and Paigan coming in slowly and protected over 1-5 years...properly.
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