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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Wow, that's a really interesting trade, the Oilers are now in no choice, but LD makes this team, and I'm not 100% sure that he's going to be ready, nobody is.
On top of that they trade Gagner who at least produced but didn't do anything else well for a winger with size in Purcell who really doesn't use his side and was on the buyout menu in Tampa because his play has slid.
Are the Oiler's worse today, maybe not? maybe sure? they shuffled a soft defensively poor center for a soft defensively poor winger, they've lost some production for sure.
Will this be classified as a bold move by the Oiler faithful? For sure, this is a huge move getting rid of a whipping boy. Probably bought in a whipping boy to.
But the bottom line is that a RNH, LD, Gordon 1-2-3 punch down the middle is weaker then a RNH LD Gagner Gordon punch down the middle.
But then again they have superstar Acobello or whatever his name is to fly to the rescue.
So now they need to go out and find another center, they need to address their pudding soft defensively horrid bottom 6, address their blue line and pray that Scriven's and VF can last a season in goal without getting rubber sickness.
That team needs to be federally declared as a disaster zone. Think of the PR as Stephen Harper flys over in a helicopter surveying Edmonton and shaking his head sadly while mournful music plays in the background before turning to a general and saying "It can't be saved, General, burn it to the ground and salt the ashes"
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I thought they finally woke up and decided to convert Gagner to being to a winger this season? So this trade doesn't really open up a giant hole at 2C...they were heading into free agency with it whether he was on the team or not. Too bad we don't get to watch the "Gagner at wing" experiment first-hand though!
I was hoping Gagner would be traded to the Pens for picks so he could play on the wing with Crosby and light it up. That'd make them sick when he's putting up "Kunitz-inflated" points.