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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 06 November 2023 12:59 |
I think a shot across the bow to the players, especially the core needs to happen. As I said, I think there is enough talent on the team to be a lot better than they are playing. If a person doesn't like the Brown signing, that's fine. Brown getting off to a slow start isn't the reason the Oilers aren't doing well. The majority of the team, that includes their best players, aren't playing well.
Making a big trade in the NHL doesn't happen very often in mid season. There isn't going to be a waiver claim that will impact the season. There aren't players on the farm that will suddenly dramatically improve the play of other players. Lavoie is now up but in reality, if he came up 3 or 4 games earlier, it wouldn't have impacted the team that much.
I think the only move they can make that would #1 send a shock wave through the team and #2 you could bring up a guy from the AHL that could not be worse is you waive Campbell and bring up Pickard.
- He has a modified no trade and that 5 mill with years left, no one is taking him mostly for cap reasons. If you could find a trade partner, it's going to cost you a ton right now to move him. So you could waive.
- You call up Pickard. Pickard Has good numbers in the minors. He's got NHL experience. He's probably not a full time NHL goalie but I doubt he could be any worse than Campbell. You might get a guy who'd be pumped to be back in the NHL. Maybe his excited energy would rub off on the team. Maybe you get a few good starts out of him, we'd seen it happen to other guys on other teams when a goalie gets called up. He could be capable of being a back up for a short time.
- Maybe you get lucky and someone picks up Campbell. It won't happen so you'd get just over 1 mill in cap relief, most of it would be taken up my Pickard but you'd get a little more cap space.
- Campbell can go down and work on his game at lower levels. Maybe you get lucky and he finds himself.
- The main thing it would do is send a shock to the players. He's well liked. He's a higher priced guy. Yes part of his problem is he hasn't made enough saves but also the team hasn't played great either. I have to think they would feel pretty bad for being part of the reason Campbell got sent down. Maybe it gets them going.
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Hahaha...I don't think anyone is going to feel that bad for Jack Campbell if he gets sent down. it's a results based business and I'm sure all the players know that they aren't getting any saves. He could be a great guy, but he and Skinner are costing us games. Everyone knows it.
And if you want to show that results matter, there's another guy who's completely responsible for this mess who should be shown the door. He's sitting in the GMs office...well, that or he's at a cottage somewhere because lord knows he doesn't like to make in-season trades or coaching/management decisions. He probably has the next 2-3 months circled as a de facto holiday anyhow...What could be more impactful for players to see than a Hall of Fame failure getting escorted out of the offices.
"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
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