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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
Purcell was great in the lockout year but spent PP time with Marty and Stamkos. Last year he wasn't playing with those guys and couldn't do much. Still, hate on the Oil all you like but if you put the guy with skill he can actually produce. If they were to sign Stastny to some dumb contract or put him with RNH he might be able to put up at least respectable numbers.
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Disagree, if you and follow my math with apples here.
Take a buttery soft we don't give a crap about the game without the puck group of forwards. Subtract a buttery soft defensive disaster and replace him with a buttery soft defensive disaster who doesn't produce as well = terrible.
The Oilers finished 25th in the league in scoring last year and dead last in goals against, and this deal probably makes them worse in the exchange. The Oilers better hope that LD comes in and lights it the hell up while winning the Selke Award.
Plus backchecks for his line since nobody else will.
I look at the lineup for that team, and for a team moving into a decade of rebuilding, its expansion team bad.
Its just . . . just . . . . just . . . no good.
I look at their lines and try to figure it out
Hall - RNH - Eberle
From a skills perspective great, from a defensive perspective terrible, from a physical perpective below average
Perron - LD - Yak
Perron is ok, but a rookie in that position is going to fail. Yak is a disaster and in my mind heavily over rated. A lot of fishing pucks out of the net
Landers - Gordon - Purcell
ugh. Landers is terrible, Gordon wins face offs and . . . . Purcell is buttery soft and declining
Joensuu - Arcobello - Gazdic
That's a awful fourth line. Looking at the lines above shows how badly the rebuild has been handled They have a good fourth line, a second line with way more questions then answers, a confusing 3rd line and a ECHL quality fourth line.
It makes you wonder what happened to all the kids that they tried to develop because their forward prospect depth isn't good
On defense
Nikitin Petry
I'm not a fan of either of them. Nikitin was a bottom pairing guy in Columbus and in and out of the lineup. Petry is a brain fart in a bottle.
Marincin Schultz
Schultz is a disaster in his own end. Marincin did a nice job last year, but will be in tough this year.
Klefbom Ference
Ference is past his best before date and was horrible last year. Klefbom is very rough.
Nurse
Please rush him into the NHL so you can wreck his career with this terrible team Oilers.
Fasth Scrivens
The only decent part of this team right, problem solved in goal right. You could put Jacque Plante behind that horrible lineup and he'd get lit up like a Christmas Tree on the 4th of July. Scrivens had some really good game but just as many games with a sub .900 svpct because of the quality and quantity of shots that he saw.
I don't understand what the hell the Oilers are doing when I look at that lineup. The "Bold Moves" that MacT has done have been nothing but keeping equal to last year at best.
That lineup is close to the worst thing I've seen yet out of the Oilers. Behind one of the worst coaches in the NHL.
I wonder how long it will be until RNH, Eberle and Hall start making trade demands.