[News] Oilers waive Rattie and Spooner. Sens waive Falk. UPD: all clear

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

How much cap do they get to bury with Spooner?

Putting any player in the minors gives a maximum cap savings of $375k + league minimum salary ($650k) = $1.025 mil

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Psytic

They should of just kept Eberle or stopped at Strome. This is why I think the Flames have done the right thing when you look at Backlund and Bennett. So much grumbling in both of their younger years that we should move them but all that does is get you a button when you move a player at their lowest point. Look at both of them now patience usually pays off.

Good post. I agree.

Patience often wins out over taking shortcuts if the talent and character is there.

[cannon7]

Every interview I've seen of Ryan Spooner he seems like a dullard. That is all.

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Jonathan Willis @JonathanWillis
The Jordan Eberle-to-Ryan Spooner would be Steve Tambellini's biggest mistake, if he'd made it.
Ditto for Craig MacTavish.
I don't know if it cracks Peter Chiarelli's top three.

Spoiler: it doesn't.

1) Trade is one for one
2) Griffin Reinhart
3) Looch

[doctajones428]

Remember when Rattie was in pretty much every second trade proposal on here?

Glad that never happened

[Strange Brew]

I expect Rattie will get claimed. You need to keep him in the NHL but rosters get expanded in just over a month. And in the next month, you have essentially one week without hockey. At his $800k salary, he is a pretty easy pickup. He is only taking up a roster spot for about 3.5 weeks.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Did this get posted yet?

Truthfully that chain looks like pretty solid asset management to me. More than a handful of good players over 35 years. Looks good.

[MrButtons]

Not sure if posted but it keeps getting better and better and better and better and

https://twitter.com/user/status/1087502936878518273

[trackercowe]

Originally Posted by doctajones428

Remember when Rattie was in pretty much every second trade proposal on here?

Glad that never happened

What about all those people that picked Rattie in their hockey pool just because he was supposed to play with McDavid? Gotta feel for those poor lost souls today.

[LWcrowfoot]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Draft pick acquired from Pronger trade -> Jordan Eberle -> Ryan Strome -> Ryan Spooner -> waivers

[calumniate]

Originally Posted by MrButtons

Not sure if posted but it keeps getting better and better and better and better and

https://twitter.com/user/status/1087502936878518273

Post of the day! That's saying something too with all the goings on

[theinfinitejar]

Originally Posted by calumniate

Post of the day! That's saying something too with all the goings on

Peter Chiarelli being an inside man for the Flames is fast becoming the only possible explanation left.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by theinfinitejar

Peter Chiarelli being an inside man for the Flames is fast becoming the only possible explanation left.

Why not the entire league?

I do not think there is a fan base or organization anywhere that is happy with the Lottery Champs.

But of course, if you ask Oiler fans it is a conspiracy.

Nope... everyone else is just sick of having the lottery odds changed to avoid the Oil Tankers drafting in the top 5 again.

[Patek23]

Originally Posted by #-3

Truthfully that chain looks like pretty solid asset management to me. More than a handful of good players over 35 years. Looks good.

Yeah 35 years to keep assets rolling isn’t bad. It’s just the nose dive it took at the end. I wonder what the longest one of these webs would look like. The longest current active asset streak.

[doctajones428]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

What about all those people that picked Rattie in their hockey pool just because he was supposed to play with McDavid? Gotta feel for those poor lost souls today.

I don’t feel bad for them picking a player with 27 points in 78 games over 6 years

That’s just dumb

[dustygoon]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Trade trees are fun to follow — on the Sabres board they follow the ‘Rick Martin Trade Tree’ — it’s never ending. There’s still like ten good assets in the system that can be traced back to that trade in 1981.

That Sabre’s board sure sounds fun. Tell us more.

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

Sure. But that's no reason for us to waste a roster spot on a long shot experiment.

See post 93.

[underGRADFlame]

It's almost noon EST... I can't wait to see the next move by Chia...

[sureLoss]

Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC
now
Everyone from yesterday cleared waivers

[old-fart]

Only minor surprise was Rattie... thought someone might take a flyer on him but it really wouldn't have helped the Oilers cap situation much had they. Spooner is pretty much a slightly cheaper Lucic. Get used to that contract for the rest of this year and next Coiler fans.