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 tardigrade81
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Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
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| Adam wrote on Tue, 17 January 2023 23:09 |
| oilfan94 wrote on Tue, 17 January 2023 15:33 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 17 January 2023 17:05 |
-1 on a really bad CBJ team is pretty darn good. That's all I've got. CBJ is terrible.
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Considering Jarmo Kekalainen (Blue Jackets GM) was the one who passed on Jesse in the draft, I am someone skeptical that he will want to give up a guy for him, especially with so much of him team underperforming as it is. Oilers would have to add something to make it worth his while.
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He passed on Puljujarvi, but does that mean anything besides that they liked the center, Dubois, better? People read way too much in to this. I mean, last year, the Canadian GM of the Montreal Canadiens passed on Shane Wright, a Canadian kid, in order to draft Juraj Slafkovsky of Slovakia!!! Does he know something that others don't because he's Canadian? Would an American GM have just made the call and picked Wright? Maybe not since Tom Fitzgerald of the Devils also passed on him for ANOTHER Slovak in Simon Nemec.
And then Canadian GM Bill Armstrong of the Coyotes ALSO passed on him and picked American Logan Cooley, so maybe many Canadians knew that Shane Wright just didn't have the "Wright Stuff".
The Finnish thing is a dumb storyline that is really irrelevant. Kekelainen has no magic related to knowing whether Finns are going to turn out okay or not. He hasn't magically unlocked Patrik Laine, and his Finnish goalie is pretty meh. He has a group of scouts and they worked out who they felt was the best pick at the time. If he was truly prescient, he probably should have picked up Tkachuk who was still on the board - but maybe his player intuition only works for teenage Finns?
Columbus is a tire fire and unlikely to make the playoffs. They will likely be sellers over the next few months, and Puljujarvi is a great player to pick up because worst case he helps you lose and you jettison him as a free agent this summer and best case, Edmonton is the problem and you get a rejuvenated player for a relatively low cost.
For what it's worse, I'm not a big fan of Gavrikov, because another low event defenceman doesn't help the problem here, especially if the Oilers continue to rely on quick dashes and long passes as their breakout system.
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Not saying you’re wrong. In fact I agree but who would you want if we could get a decent defenseman?
This team needs something. The current blue line is so bad
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