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| Klingberg [message #840103] | Tue, 14 January 2025 11:15   |  | 
 
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|  Adam Messages: 7580
 Registered: August 2005
 Location: Edmonton, AB
 
 6 Cups 
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 Not sure I'd be super excited about that.  Only 14 games last year and none this year so lots of rust.  And can he defend?  Some huge minuses next to his name the last few years.  -85 since 2019-20, with most of that on decent enough Dallas teams.  Worst on the team three years running in Dallas, and then 4th worst on a bad Ducks team under Dallas Eakins.
 
 I have to think there are better options for blueliners available at the deadline.
 
 
 "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
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|  Kr55 Messages: 12173
 Registered: May 2002
 Location: Edmonton
 
 6 Cups 
 |  | D version of Jeff Skinner.  Guy plays zero defense.  Don't think Knob will enjoy him.  Might help give fans a distraction from Bouch though   [Updated on: Wed, 15 January 2025 15:32]
 
 "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
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|  Skookum Jim Messages: 5489
 Registered: March 2006
 Location: Burnaby, BC
 
 5 Cups 
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 John Klingberg heading to the Oilers.
 
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 McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
 Tic-Tac-Tao!
 Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
 
 
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|  halfafrog Messages: 72
 Registered: March 2006
 Location: Scottsdale, AZ
 
 No Cups 
 |  | In retrospect, he is looking like a decent pickup. Sounds like he just needed surgery and to heal. 
 
 So this is what hope feels like?
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|  Kr55 Messages: 12173
 Registered: May 2002
 Location: Edmonton
 
 6 Cups 
 |  | | halfafrog wrote on Wed, 07 May 2025 14:09 |  | In retrospect, he is looking like a decent pickup. Sounds like he just needed surgery and to heal.
 
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 Turned into a pretty ideal 3rd pair D I would say.  Still gets walked now and then, but having a D that can play with your depth guys and hit them on the fly across 2 zones with perfect passes opens up a lot.  Think 2 goals last night started with Klingberg nailing a long pass.
 
 Happy I was wrong about what he had left to give.
 
 
 "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
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|  Kr55 Messages: 12173
 Registered: May 2002
 Location: Edmonton
 
 6 Cups 
 |  | Round 3 dream: 
 Ekholm-Bouch
 Kulak-Nurse
 Klingberg-Walman
 
 
 
 "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
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