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Ragnarok73 wrote on Mon, 01 July 2019 16:59

So far, the Oil just seemed to have done a whole lot of absolutely nothing. Granted, what else could we expect with the @$@#hole that Chia left the team in cap-wise?


Wish we had a veteran defence man with a history of being elite, with some upside.

I do too except I don't want the Oilers having to pay that guy 5.5 mill for the next 2 seasons. I'd also like to know he will actually be ready to go for the start of the season vs potentially getting hurt for the 3rd year in a row and I would like to know I can count on him for good mins vs crossing my fingers.


If he costs you more than $3MM, you're paying the same as what you were paying Sekera, since we're on the hook for $2.5MM of cap space with Sekera this year.

There's not much left in the free agent market who's going to provide an update. Jake Gardiner...and that's about it. And I don't see Gardiner coming cheap or coming to Edmonton. He may have heard from his old teammate Justin Schultz about how Edmonton fans (most knowledgeable in the league icon_rolleyes) treat offensive defencemen - and even if he hadn't, he's undoubtedly heard that this team is a tire fire who can't get it together, even when gifted the best player on the planet.

So that leaves trades...but looking at Holland's record, he's not exactly good at making trades. He doesn't make many of them, and there's exceptionally few clear wins when he does make them, so we might be in tough here.

What I don't understand is the notion that Sekera can be anything more than a 3rd pairing guy at best. He played 24 games last year and looked OK playing very sheltered 3rd pairing mins. He didn't dominate, all he did was show that he can probably play in the NHL which was a HUGE thing considering given coming off 2 major leg injuries, they was a chance he was done in the NHL.

What I find hypocritical with this is the Oilers had a young dman in Jones last year play close to the games that Sekera did. Jones played 17 games. When he was in the 3rd pair, Jones looked really good, when he got elevated to top 4, he did fine OK for a few games but slowly got exposed for being not ready. Going into this season most fans and media guys agree Jones is probably ready for full time NHL duty in a 3rd pairing role. He also might have the upside to elevate at some point. But no one is expecting him to play in the top 4 like some people think Sekera could. What's the difference other than experience? Jones moves the puck as good or better, he has more offense than Sekera at this point in his career, he's WAY, WAY more mobile than Sekera ever was. I don't think Jones should play in the top 4 but if someone is going to tell me that Sekera could do it with the main reason being he can pass the puck, in my opinion, you should be saying the same thing about Jones who has WAY more tools in the tool box than Sekera has at this point in his career.

In my opinion, the goal of the team should be to get rid of the breaking down, aging, expensive vets like a Sekera and turning their spots over to younger players. They needed to create a roster spot for a guy like Jones who is more so what the NHL needs in dmen than Sekera was. Sekera in my opinion is a 3rd pairing dman who shouldn't be any higher than the 3rd pair so in my opinion, you replace Sekera with a Jones and it upgrades your defense. You do lose experience but other than that, Jones does all the things Sekera does play all the things he can't, all while doing it for 720K. So you replace Sekera AND you have almost 2.3 mill left over.



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