Can you tell me what I'm wrong about? How am I wrong for arguing that the Oilers believed they were able to use Paajarvi last night? How does that make me wrong? It sure makes Tambellini look useless, but in no way makes my point wrong...
It's pretty embarrassing but I do agree that it's really a dumb rule. There's no reason why there's a limit especially when a team is clearly out of the playoffs. This likely changes with the new CBA.
Playoff position or not shouldn't factor into it. And someone made the very good point about teams out of the playoffs calling up a bunch of kids and sitting their NHL vets. Or they don't want teams keeping vets in the AHL all season, especially ones that might be there for cap reasons, and then have the ability to recall them after the deadline when most of their cap hit will be gone because of pro-rated salaries. It's the same logic as teams not being able to bring players over from Europe after a certain date.
LA played Edmonton Friday night and plays them again on Monday. They're in a race for the division title that's extremely tight. Don't you think San Jose, Dallas, and Phoenix would be extremely pissed if Edmonton had the ability to recall 5-6 kids from the AHL to give them some NHL experience and sit vets? It's one thing for a team needing to bring up kids due to injuries (like Edmonton brought Teubert up on an emergency recall today I believe), but it would be totally different for Edmonton to bring up kids and then sit guys like Smyth and Hemsky to give kids ice time when the vets are healthy.
Should have had all of the scratches come down with "food poisoning". Problem solved, you need an emergency player. At least then you wouldn't have to send him down immediately.
I think standing by former lifelong friends of the organization and their comrades got the Habs into a lot of recent trouble. By canning Gainey the consultant and his former right hand man Gauthier as GM, the Habs showed that loyalties have to die somewhere. If only Katz believed in the same yet Lowe is still president and Tambellini is his heir who has done nothing to show he has a plan. They trot out the excuses of trouble attracting FAs and sticking to a rebuilding plan but their drafting outside the 1st round needs to start reaping rewards and the hesitance to build from the net out has hurt them and doesn't help their forwards progressions. Seems the salary cap they moaned about having hasn't done much to save them from mismanagement. Oddly enough it seems the Canadian teams haven't been this poorly performing all at once in a long time. So much for the cap levelling the playing field.
^ Yeah Mtl the team that got to the conference finals a couple yrs ago and gave Boston a tough series last season. They have a good starting goalie, a no1 dman in Subban, top four dmen in Gorges/Markov/Yemelin, good centre depth, and good prospects. Obviously they don't have Hall/RNH/Eberle but better in other regards and you have more confidence in them having the right mgmt at some point compared to the current Edmonton group.
^ Yeah Mtl the team that got to the conference finals a couple yrs ago and gave Boston a tough series last season. They have a good starting goalie, a no1 dman in Subban, top four dmen in Gorges/Markov/Yemelin, good centre depth, and good prospects. Obviously they don't have Hall/RNH/Eberle but better in other regards and you have more confidence in them having the right mgmt at some point compared to the current Edmonton group.
I think he's more wondering why you bumped this thread just to troll the Oilers and Hemsky. Useless post is useless. But continue to post why the Oilers are worse than other teams, every one is reading them....
Ales Hemsky (aka best signing of the year according to Oilers fans)
It is incredible that anyone would claim to know the tiniest bit about the market and suggest the Hemsky deal wasn't a fantastic team-friendly signing.
If you were smart enough to look up comparables, you would have seen that Hemsky would have easily gotten more money for many more years on the UFA market.
It is incredible that anyone would claim to know the tiniest bit about the market and suggest the Hemsky deal wasn't a fantastic team-friendly signing.
If you were smart enough to look up comparables, you would have seen that Hemsky would have easily gotten more money for many more years on the UFA market.
Not only that, but the Oilers could have signed him for $12 million a year over two years, and it wouldn't matter a single bit. The Oilers aren't going to be close to the cap until they re-up RNH and bring in players for when they start to become a playoff team.
It is incredible that anyone would claim to know the tiniest bit about the market and suggest the Hemsky deal wasn't a fantastic team-friendly signing.
If you were smart enough to look up comparables, you would have seen that Hemsky would have easily gotten more money for many more years on the UFA market.
Keep telling yourself that as you watch your team draft lottery picks year after year.
Can't win when your team friendly deal is with a guy who plays 70 games in a good year, and won't have done it in three consecutive seasons.
PPG though bro, PPG. I hear it counts even when he doesn't dress!
(edit: the signing was fine, it just wasn't anything to write home about and it doesn't address the problems the Oilers have. sometimes it's better to make a move in a new direction than to continue spinning your wheels with the same old team)
Keep telling yourself that as you watch your team draft lottery picks year after year.
Can't win when your team friendly deal is with a guy who plays 70 games in a good year, and won't have done it in three consecutive seasons.
PPG though bro, PPG. I hear it counts even when he doesn't dress!
(edit: the signing was fine, it just wasn't anything to write home about and it doesn't address the problems the Oilers have. sometimes it's better to make a move in a new direction than to continue spinning your wheels with the same old team)
So what you're saying is that the Oilers would have been better off letting Hemsky go for nothing. Excellent point. Also, I love how a Hemsky signing has everything to do with how the Oilers are collecting lottery picks. Excellent troll post.
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