Adam wrote on Sat, 16 February 2019 02:08

inverno76 wrote on Sat, 16 February 2019 00:00 Adam wrote on Fri, 15 February 2019 22:43 Mark Spector breathlessly praising Keith for this trade. They got a young guy! He's under team control next year! Clear win!!!! The Oilers traded a proven goaltender and the better goalie on the team over the last two months for a guy with 19 career NHL games and mediocre AHL stats. That is not a clear win. It's still 50/50 whether Stolarz is even in the organization a year from now. And hold on for Talbot for nothing? No win. This team is garbage. Keep him you complain. Trade him for an asset and you complain. You think 33 was going to sign here in the offseason for < 2M. He wanted out. See ya. A lateral move at worst. I believe there was value for a guy who's only a couple seasons removed from a Vezina calibre season. And I don't believe there's much value in a 25 year old with pedestrian AHL stats... So I think we could have got something of value but instead we traded for something that will eventually be walked away from at zero value....net loss Oilers.

We’ve been hearing for awhile that there has been no market and then a very small market for Talbot.

Keith/Scott/Bob traded a guy we’d lose for nothing, he wasn’t going to be resigned. In the trade they got a guy that will be under team control and is still relatively young in goalie terms.

They did what we wanted/expected. Trade guys on expiring contracts. Perhaps they didn’t get the value that some of us believe they should have but 1) we’re not NHL execs or anywhere near the pulse and 2) we often tend to have some mighty large Oiler blinders on.

The hysterical thing is one-for-one.

I look at this one as a good deal for the team. I know you don’t. We’re not making playoffs. We cut salary. We have a younger goalie to pair with Koskinen.

Flyers fans, from what I’ve read, had been excited to have Hart and Stolarz as their 1-2 as apparently the games he’s played this year his team left him out to Oiler.

Good luck Talbot. I had been calling it for a few weeks and glad to see it come true, enjoy mentoring your close friend.

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