Edmonton is No Good XI: Mud, Sweatpants and Tiers

[Robbob]

Yeah, what was it like, 34 consecutive penalties killed. Game 3 vs the Canucks was the last goal that was scored on them until the finals. Canucks score one PP goal, chances are they win. If Dallas scores, especially on their OT PP with McDavid in the box for the high stick, does it change the series. It would have put them up 3-0.

[Erick Estrada]

Looks like the Oilers are going to keep Kane out until the playoffs so they can use his $5 million cap relief at the trade deadline. Who didn't see this coming?

[Toonage]

Meh. They'll use it on a forward. That person will see the puck about as much as the rest.

[topfiverecords]

A year of Kane sitting around is not going to have the same result as Kucherov being out. He'll be beyond useless.

[dustygoon]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Looks like the Oilers are going to keep Kane out until the playoffs so they can use his $5 million cap relief at the trade deadline. Who didn't see this coming?

Apparently Friedman!

[Tbull8]

Calling it now, they'll use it to sign Klingberg

[dash_pinched]

Originally Posted by Tbull8

Calling it now, they'll use it to sign Klingberg

It looks like they could circle back on Tony DeAngelo if so inclined...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1879102593060016436

[Erick Estrada]

He would fit right in that locker room.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Lmao I know we are not supposed to make this political but is funny he is back just when Trump takes office.

[jg13]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1879376629530779674

[Locke]

Haha! Okay thats good!

If you're going to be the villain then lean into it!

[Sofa GM]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Looks like the Oilers are going to keep Kane out until the playoffs so they can use his $5 million cap relief at the trade deadline. Who didn't see this coming?

What ground breaking news…. This is absolutely shocking. I am on pins and needles to see going forward the additional ways the league is going to pave the way for Mavi to get his Cup. The Oilers are probably the biggest black eye of a team in all of professional sport.

[zuluking]

Originally Posted by Sofa GM

What ground breaking news…. This is absolutely shocking. I am on pins and needles to see going forward the additional ways the league is going to pave the way for Mavi to get his Cup. The Oilers are probably the biggest black eye of a team in all of professional sport.

Not "probably"...

[Tkachukwagon]

Looks like they found a way to spend that cap relief:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1879586088546877608

[Robbob]

I am sure is dying to be able to play those 20 seconds the 2nd PP gets.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

I love the optimism any time someone from Edmonton talks about signing a new player.
It's always "This guy will get a chance on the powerplay", despite the fact that only 5 guys ever get any power play minutes on that team.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Tkachukwagon

Looks like they found a way to spend that cap relief:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1879586088546877608

I thought Stecher, Brown and Emberson were heading for top three in Norris voting? What happened?

[Toonage]

They had me at paired up with Nurse

[Eric Vail]

This was written about him the last time he played hockey, which was in Toronto:

Last season in Anaheim was a massive red flag around Klingberg and maybe how bad the Ducks were led Brad Treliving to believe his results were a product of that system. On the Ducks Klingberg had goals and expected goals for percentages below 40%. His Corsi wasn’t much better. Both his Corsi and Goals For enjoyed a dead cat bounce when he arrived in Minnesota, and his goals for percentage significantly improved based on the heavy sheltering the Wild could afford him. His average icetime in Anaheim was the lowest of his career (including his rookie season) before he arrived in Minnesota and saw his 5v5 ice time cut by another two minutes a night. There was no reason to believe that Klingberg was good and considering that Klingberg warranted only a 4th round pick with 50% salary retention, it should have been painfully clear that signing Klingberg was a bad idea.

It would be nice to say that Klingberg’s 14 games as a Leaf were forgettable but unfortunately that isn’t true. His complete lack of defensive awareness will likely haunt a generation of Leafs fans for years to come. Klingberg demonstrated an unprecedented ability to find himself facing the wrong direction on any given play or to arrive near the net just in time to scoop the puck out of the goal. Again, the defensive deficiencies were expected, maybe not to the 3.68 GA/60 level, but they were expected. While Klingberg’s Corsi doesn’t look bad, every other number that people routinely check would at best be described as a tire fire. Amazingly he was still better than he was in Anaheim.

https://theleafsnation.com/news/klin...-leafs-history

And we get this:

The 2 Mutts Hockey Podcast has accurately broken Oilers news this season, and now is reporting that Edmonton is close to adding Klingberg with the intention of playing him in the top four, and on the powerplay.

So, the guy who was run out of town for his brutal defensive play in Toronto will be good enough to play in the top four in Edmonton and will bump Bouchard from the PowerPlay.

They are far more forgiving about brutal defensive play in Edmonton that anywhere else.

He will probably fit in really well.

[GioforPM]

The Oilers' management are like really casual fans when some old, former decent player comes up.

"Oh I heard of that guy, he's good".