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The signing doesn't help the Oilers need for a top 6 player but what I like is he's an NHL player who can do a role. At worse he's in your bottom 6, hopefully contributing bottom 6 production and helping on the PK. Maybe you get lucky and you get a Chiasson type season. I don't expect it what so ever but I didn't think you'd get what Chiasson did.
He plus a few of the other guys they have signed maybe aren't your ideal top 6 guys but what it also does is the Oilers are going to be able to ice NHLers. Maybe some guys have to play up a bit but they are NHLers. Last year they played at times:
- Rattie
- Rieder - When you score zero goals, you aren't an NHLer in my books.
- Spooner
- Puljujarjvi
- Brodziak - I am not sure he's an NHLer anymore.
- Cave - Not sure he's an NHLer
- Currie
- Gamberdella
- Yamamoto
- Malone
- Russell
- Marody
- Zykov
All those guys saw time with the Oilers, some of them lots of time. Some of the AHL guys might be ready for the NHL this season but they weren't last year. Some guys like Rattie, I just heard Spooner, are playing in Europe. No one has touched Rieder who will probably be a PTO guy. Then there is Puljujarvi.
So maybe they aren't high end guys but the Oilers have more NHL depth and given Tippett's history with Arizona, maybe he can get those guys to play hard and play above what their resume says.
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