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Originally Posted by Scoutski
I think I'm alone here, but I actually kind of think the oilers didn't make a terrible move.
The two guys they moved out were very fringe players and I doubt they ever get much/if any NHL time. Maybe Hartikainen develops into a solid 2-way kind of guy and comes in, but it's still better for the oilers to add some older more experienced guys for the moment.
The guy they get back fits their needs and has decent NHL experience (~150+ games). I'm not saying he's an incredible defenceman but they got a guy who can and likely will play for them, giving up assets they had all but given up on and it improves their team. Please don't come back with hyperbole but their team is better than it was before the trade.
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Ok lets see if I can put this in a way with maximum hyperbole in a pop culture situation that all of you young people can understand.
Lets say that you have a ship, its a big ship, looks beautiful and special and impressive when its not really doing anything. So you go out and hire some kind of violin band. Maybe 6 of them, but you don't scout them very well so the 6 violinists that you get are all tone deaf and blind and a bit intellectually challenged in playing the beautiful music that the violin deserves.
So your ship captain looks at this and says "You know what would make this better? Another violinist, so he goes to his first mate and says "Gilligan you idiot, add another chair to the band, and shuffle the other ones about while I get another violinist"
So the Captain brings in a 7th violin player, he looks great nice tuxedo great hair etc. But he too is tone deaf, and intellectually challenged when he plays with his instrument and he has a gaffing hook for a hand. But you know good enough, they set sail with this special band.
About 10 minutes in to the voyage the ship and we might as well call it the Titanic Oiler hits an ice berg and starts to sink. The passengers start to panic and blindly throw their pucks err luggage at random. The Chief Engineer a guy named Hall starts to run in a circle while doing nothing and all of the Nails pop off the deck. The Captain, orders the band to start playing to calm everyone down. But as the ship starts to sink into the inky depths the last sound that we hear is that violin band playing and it sounds like a cat being disemboweled with a tooth brush.