| Is Nurse tradable? We need to start this talk... [message #848060] |
Thu, 23 October 2025 21:30  |
 |
 HamBlaster
Messages: 1235
Registered: June 2007
1 Cup
|
|
It's time. Nurse is awful to start the season and we've seen this guy continue to regress year after year. His contract is nonsense and we need to find a bottom-feeder that has cap room to take him on. I know that we should be trying to use our assets to improve the team through addition... however I think this is a case of addition by subtraction. The small sample size that we have seen of Regula suggests he's far superior to Darnell on the defensive side, and that's what we need. The Oilers have Atro that they can bring up at a far cheaper price.
Time to make the move, Stan. Ship Nurse out.
|
|
|
|
|
NetBOG
Messages: 3057
Registered: January 2006
Location: Parts Unknown
3 Cups
|
|
He’s Connor’s boy, not gonna happen.
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Mike
Messages: 1899
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
|
|
| NetBOG wrote on Fri, 24 October 2025 07:05 |
He’s Connor’s boy, not gonna happen.
|
Connor's loyal, but he's not dumb, and he wants to win. I'm thinking he's starting to see a problem there as well.
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Kr55
Messages: 12158
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
|
|
Play him at forward. Reverse Brent Burns him. McDrai can play with their boy up front.
"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
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Skookum Jim
Messages: 5469
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
|
|
| Kr55 wrote on Fri, 24 October 2025 09:55 |
Play him at forward. Reverse Brent Burns him. McDrai can play with their boy up front.
|
Wherever he can do less damage.. 👍🏻🙂
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
|
|
|
|
|
|
Skookum Jim
Messages: 5469
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
|
|
Problems with Nurse are he's an Oiler first round draft pick.. he wound up being best friends with your two franchise players McDavid and Draisatl.. and is being paid a franchise player level salary himself..
So even though he's deserved a roster demotion based on poor play.. its never happened.. likely because;
1. Teams always give their first round picks endless chances.. and keep playing them right until the bitter end.. because it reflects very badly on management if your top pick is sitting in the press box, or bottom of the roster..
2. you don't want to irritate your real franchise players by dumping one of their close friends..
3. it looks stupid to pay a player 10% of the team cap to play limited 3rd pair defence.
4. He's got an unmovable contract until 2027.. so you have to keep playing him otherwise he'll have even less market value, and be more untradeable.
Nurse carries a lot of swagger.. I suspect based on draft selection, salary, and hanging out with 97 and 29.. he thinks he's a franchise level player .. and his permeability to coaching has been diminished as a result of it.. bordering on un-coachable.
JMHO :)
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
|
|
|
|
