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Adam Messages: 6845
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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We'll see on this one. Far from certain who's getting the best of this. Both players struggling offensively this year. Historically, Strome's better defensively, and Spooner provides a little more offensively. Spooner's slightly older, but not ancient, and he's a UFA at the end of his deal, while Strome is RFA still when his expires. Of course, when the deals end, there's an excellent chance that the Oilers are left with nothing from this...
Spooner doesn't carry the stigma of having been traded one-for-one for Jordan Eberle at least...It will be easier to carry the comparison to Ryan Strome. That's probably part of the appeal for Chiarelli too, as I'm sure he'd love that comparison to end too.
I was listening to the latest 31 Thoughts podcast this morning on the way to work and they were discussing John Stevens and the Hagelin/Pearson trade. Marek mentioned that old-school thinking was that you should give your head coach a trade to see if that changes things for the team before you fire the head coach...the Oilers are pretty stuck in old school thinking, so maybe this is one step closer to the end of McLellan's reign of error over the bench?
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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