Oilers Just Took a Risk That No One Expected! | Edmonton Oilers News Today

Oilers Just Took a Risk That No One Expected! | Edmonton Oilers News Today

here’s his points, here’s his goals, this is how he compares to player X or player B or player D and say, okay, this is where he should fit in. No, Alex Tuck is very valuable to the Buffalo Sabres. This is a situation where the player and his value to the team in the market and what the team is trying to do makes him even more valuable. So, it, you know, what are the Sabres going to be comfortable doing here? I thought it was a big win getting Ryan Mloud signed. He had a very good year for them. Um, but this one with Tuck is a challenge cuz it’s not only about production, it’s about the importance of a player in the market and he is very important. Also, uh, big keys for these guys next year. Kulage, Benson, Quinn. Uh, they got to make an impact. There’s going to be big opportunity for those guys. Okay, the Detroit Red Wings. First of all, all the best to Christian Fiser, 28 years old, announces retirement. just felt it was time. It was opportunity for him in another world. Chance to be in Arizona with family a little more, but I think speaking for both of us here was a guy that we both enjoyed talking to. A lot of good insight and clearly a very popular teammate. Uh so he’s moved on. They made the trade for John Gibson. They got James Van Remdsteike, Mason Appleton, former Michigan State Spartan, Jacob Bernard Docker. They brought back Patrick Kane on a one-year deal. Uh, but listening to Steve Eisermanman the other day, Elliot, and saying that guys we were hoping to talk to all sign before free agency and you just mentioned they would have loved a chance to meet with Nick Eers before he had decided to go to Carolina. So, what’s kind of the outset for Detroit and trying to build a team that can finally end their playoff drought? You know, first of all, I wanted to shout out Max Baldman who got that Christian Fischer story. Uh there’s a first of all, there’s a lot of there there’s a lot of great coverage in the league. Like whether you’re a day-to-day person or you’re doing statistical analysis or you’re doing more fun work or you’re breaking trades, whatever you do, like whether you work for an established media site or a blog or you’re independent or whatever. There’s a lot of great coverage of the NHL. I want to shout that out. But you know, Kyle, like sometimes I’ll look at a story and I’ll say like, damn, where was I on that one? Like how come I didn’t get that story? And when I saw Max write that story about Christian Fischer, I I was jealous. I’m not going to lie. I would have loved to have gotten uh that story. So, shout out to Max for getting that. That was a really good story. And I agree with you. I always remember, you know, Arizona came into Toronto a couple years ago and they beat the Leaves early in this season. He did that that was with you, right? Yeah, that was that was the first What did he the people with uh in the in the in the $5,000 seats? Is that what he said? Gave them their money’s worth tonight. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the $500 seats got their money’s worth. That’s right. That was uh cuz that was I think that was their first year playing out of Arizona State, right? And there was they’re not going to win a game all season and they come into Toronto like first week of the year and and they beat the Leafs. So that was a that was a neat one. Yeah, that was a I remember that. Yeah, good guy. Fisher. So, as Eerman said, I don’t think dealers was a realistic option. I I I don’t think that was ever going to happen. I never had a doubt that Patrick Kane was staying. I always felt he was going to stay there. Um, you know, I I think he had some interest in Arvdson. Um, because Arvidson had success with Todd Mlullen in LA. He ended up in Boston. I heard that the Red Wings like Mason Marchman. Uh, he ended up in Seattle. So, you know, he there were some things he wanted to do that he wasn’t able to do. I think it’s interesting. You know, a couple years ago, the guys he signed, Comfort, Cop, Sherro, those kinds of guys, he gave them term. Like this year, you take a look at the guys they signed, JVR, 17th NHL season, always love to see him around. Mason Appleton, like no term, one in two years, right? So, that says to me that Eerman, unless it was a big home run hit like, he was only saying, “Look, no term. We’ve got some more guys coming. We’re not blocking anybody.” Um, and we’re just going to keep letting our prospects get closer and get readyier. It’s a hard sell in Detroit. It really is. It’s been too long without the playoffs. Um, like the thing about Eerman is he believes in himself. Even if nobody else believes in what he’s doing, he thinks he’s doing the right thing and that is drafting and developing their guys. So unless he can hit a big home run, and this year it would have been a guy like Eers, he’s not going to do that anymore with four and fiveyear terms, he’s he’s going to bet Eiserman is betting his reputation on when all these kids we’ve drafted and developed are ready, they’re going to be players, and I’m not doing anything unless I can hit a big mammoth uh home run. Uh Gibson, even he doesn’t have a lot of term, that’s a big bet by Eerman. He wanted to stabilize their net. Guy’s got to stay healthy. There’s no question talentwise that Gibson uh can is can do it. It’s got to stay healthy. And I think they had to move on from Teraraenko. Um um Eisermanman disputed this last year, but I don’t think the player was happy. And I think it was just better for both of them that he moved on. Well, what was the one thing that Derrick Lone said after he got let go in Detroit? praise the young core that they had there. The opportunity of them to do something great some point down the line here. So Detroit tries to be whether it’s the Ottawa or the Montreal of this year, one of those teams that had been near the bottom of the Atlantic for many seasons, finally busting out of that. At the top of the division and the whole league still remains the Florida Panthers, Elliot. So the big three all stayed just as Bill Zto said that they would in the moments after winning their second straight Stanley Cup. So by if I read this right all but Nate Schmidt and VTEC Vanichek among the regulars are back and does Nikico Stur cuz he played a lot. Well he did until Yes, he didn’t play at the end against Toronto but yes. Okay. So, Nico Sturm, I want you to know Kyle Bakoscus is saying you are irregular. I’m not saying he’s irregular. And Paul Maurice won that fourth line of Nok Gajivich and Greer on the ice for the final seconds against Edmonton. They came in game three against Toronto and helped turn that uh series around. So, anyway, all of this to say and Samoscavic is a good player, too, and he couldn’t even get in the lineup at the end. And he’s he’s a good player. Yes, he’s due a new contract. Uh, all of this to say, uh, before you tried to sabotage my bit here, Elliot, rather successfully, is that is this a team that’s simply gearing up to try to make it three in a row? Something that has not been done in the salary cap era. The moment they won, even though they were celebrating, there were guys there saying, “We’ll be back. We’ll be back. We’re not done.” So, that’s the goal. I’d like to talk about Zo for a second. Um, so I had a vote in the GM of the year this year. I had him first on my ballot. Um, I have no problem with Jim Nil winning. Jim Nil is a is a really great GM and I’ve got no problem with that. Like people vote how you vote. Um, except except I don’t understand how Zetto wasn’t on seven ballots. Like that is crazy to me. And I wonder if that’s the perception of well it’s Florida there’s no like all the extra benefits of being where they are. I wonder if that played in.

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