"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

"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
#FireBobbyNicks

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

"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
#FireBobbyNicks

"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
#FireBobbyNicks

Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.

[Updated on: Mon, 20 July 2020 15:45]

"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
#FireBobbyNicks

"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
#FireBobbyNicks

Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.

Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,

"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
#FireBobbyNicks

Adam wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 10:33

RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 09:37 He just keeps getting better and better and doing it quickly. It's still early but it looks like he is legit and this was the right pick. Haha...this is the kind of comment that doesn't age well when talking about teenagers that you only have seen a couple of YouTube clips from. Hopefully he continues to track well. It's very early days yet. There may yet be times that we wished we picked Cole Caufield (as an example). His numbers from 2019-20 paralleled those in his draft year - which isn't usually what you'd hope to see. It's hard to know without more information though how he was being used, and what the factors were that went in to that. He skates well and was praised highly by Edmonton media when he was here in the summer, but this is the same Edmonton media who's been doing that for every high pick or trade-acquired prospect since time began. I don't think you can put a lot of stock in to it - they're asked to sell high on any future guy, especially when it's someone who the new GM went out on a ledge to pick. We shall see - we could really use a couple cheap stud defencemen to come in and make immediate impacts...

If he's gonna take a step up, this would be the year to expect it.

The lineup from his teams twitter:



1st pair. Hopefully means PP time too. I think he was 3rd pair most of last year and worked his way up late in the season. This year he's gonna get lots of opportunity, if he keeps deserving it.


Side note. Kudos to "Wingerli" overcoming the odds and becoming a Center.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

GabbyDugan wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 12:00

Kr55 wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 11:51 Adam wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 10:33 RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 09:37 He just keeps getting better and better and doing it quickly. It's still early but it looks like he is legit and this was the right pick. Haha...this is the kind of comment that doesn't age well when talking about teenagers that you only have seen a couple of YouTube clips from. Hopefully he continues to track well. It's very early days yet. There may yet be times that we wished we picked Cole Caufield (as an example). His numbers from 2019-20 paralleled those in his draft year - which isn't usually what you'd hope to see. It's hard to know without more information though how he was being used, and what the factors were that went in to that. He skates well and was praised highly by Edmonton media when he was here in the summer, but this is the same Edmonton media who's been doing that for every high pick or trade-acquired prospect since time began. I don't think you can put a lot of stock in to it - they're asked to sell high on any future guy, especially when it's someone who the new GM went out on a ledge to pick. We shall see - we could really use a couple cheap stud defencemen to come in and make immediate impacts... If he's gonna take a step up, this would be the year to expect it. The lineup from his teams twitter: 1st pair. Hopefully means PP time too. I think he was 3rd pair most of last year and worked his way up late in the season. This year he's gonna get lots of opportunity, if he keeps deserving it. Side note. Kudos to "Wingerli" overcoming the odds and becoming a Center. My conclusion is the Oilers should cut the kid loose before he has tons of abuse heaped on him from the Edmonton media and oilfans and/or breaks all of our hearts. Let him find his way through another NHL team's system. Jeff Petry says hello

That would be way too quick. He has to look good for at least 30 games for us first so we can trade away Klef. Ideally we get him to his last RFA year and give him a 1 year "show me" contract.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

2015/2016 - This Kool-Aid tastes like McDavid flavoured Drain-O.
2016/2017 - This Kool-Aid is starting to taste like juice.
2017/2018 - I'm drinking this Kool-Aid, in hopes that it's Drain-O.
2018/2019 - Another round of Drain-O, good sir!

NZ Oiler Fan wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 12:58

Kr55 wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 15:18 GabbyDugan wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 12:00 Kr55 wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 11:51 Adam wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 10:33 RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 09:37 He just keeps getting better and better and doing it quickly. It's still early but it looks like he is legit and this was the right pick. Haha...this is the kind of comment that doesn't age well when talking about teenagers that you only have seen a couple of YouTube clips from. Hopefully he continues to track well. It's very early days yet. There may yet be times that we wished we picked Cole Caufield (as an example). His numbers from 2019-20 paralleled those in his draft year - which isn't usually what you'd hope to see. It's hard to know without more information though how he was being used, and what the factors were that went in to that. He skates well and was praised highly by Edmonton media when he was here in the summer, but this is the same Edmonton media who's been doing that for every high pick or trade-acquired prospect since time began. I don't think you can put a lot of stock in to it - they're asked to sell high on any future guy, especially when it's someone who the new GM went out on a ledge to pick. We shall see - we could really use a couple cheap stud defencemen to come in and make immediate impacts... If he's gonna take a step up, this would be the year to expect it. The lineup from his teams twitter: 1st pair. Hopefully means PP time too. I think he was 3rd pair most of last year and worked his way up late in the season. This year he's gonna get lots of opportunity, if he keeps deserving it. Side note. Kudos to "Wingerli" overcoming the odds and becoming a Center. My conclusion is the Oilers should cut the kid loose before he has tons of abuse heaped on him from the Edmonton media and oilfans and/or breaks all of our hearts. Let him find his way through another NHL team's system. Jeff Petry says hello That would be way too quick. He has to look good for at least 30 games for us first so we can trade away Klef. Ideally we get him to his last RFA year and give him a 1 year "show me" contract. Exactly. Then we bump him up to the first pairing to fill Klef's spot. He predictably struggles, so we crap all over him, dump him for spare parts, then see him flourish on the 3rd or 2nd pairing on whichever team he got traded to. And so the cycle continues.

It's nice having a plan.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you can get a lottery pick.

Kr55 wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 11:51

Adam wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 10:33 RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 09:37 He just keeps getting better and better and doing it quickly. It's still early but it looks like he is legit and this was the right pick. Haha...this is the kind of comment that doesn't age well when talking about teenagers that you only have seen a couple of YouTube clips from. Hopefully he continues to track well. It's very early days yet. There may yet be times that we wished we picked Cole Caufield (as an example). His numbers from 2019-20 paralleled those in his draft year - which isn't usually what you'd hope to see. It's hard to know without more information though how he was being used, and what the factors were that went in to that. He skates well and was praised highly by Edmonton media when he was here in the summer, but this is the same Edmonton media who's been doing that for every high pick or trade-acquired prospect since time began. I don't think you can put a lot of stock in to it - they're asked to sell high on any future guy, especially when it's someone who the new GM went out on a ledge to pick. We shall see - we could really use a couple cheap stud defencemen to come in and make immediate impacts... If he's gonna take a step up, this would be the year to expect it. The lineup from his teams twitter: 1st pair. Hopefully means PP time too. I think he was 3rd pair most of last year and worked his way up late in the season. This year he's gonna get lots of opportunity, if he keeps deserving it. Side note. Kudos to "Wingerli" overcoming the odds and becoming a Center.

I think he was in their 3rd paring last year so moving up to the first is a good things. I hope it continues. Always nice seeing some positive things happen to an Oilers player or prospect.

[Updated on: Tue, 15 September 2020 09:25]

McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

"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
#FireBobbyNicks