[Trade] Oilers trade Mark Arcobello to Nashville for Derek Roy

[HotHotHeat]

Eagerly awaiting his first interview. How could a player near the end of their career even pretend to say he's excited to go there?

[Dx54]

Bold move.

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Originally Posted by sureLoss

James Mirtle @mirtle
Sounds like Nashville may have retained salary in this deal. Would be one way it made sense for Oilers to go this route.

The guy makes a million bucks. Are the Oilers saving up for another dressing room renovation?

[Jacks]

Now let's see if they do the right thing and send Draisaitl back down.

[dissentowner]

They are building something special up there

[HotHotHeat]

@simmonssteve: Definition of desperate: Trading for Derek Roy.

@DarrenWHaynes: The #Oilers are cornering the market on players that have been put on waivers.

@SportsnetSpec: That's where the Oilers are. Trading for Roy is an upgrade.

[Superfraggle]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

James Mirtle @mirtle
Sounds like Nashville may have retained salary in this deal. Would be one way it made sense for Oilers to go this route.

Strange, if true. Roy's salary is only $1,000,000 per CapGeek. Arcobello's is $600,000. Is Katz starting to clamp down on the cost of their roster?

[getbak]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC
EDM would make the trade instead of waivers to keep them away from 50 contracts.

Even with the Fraser claim, they're at 47 contracts. They're obviously keeping the spots open for Heatley and Paajarvi.

[ComixZone]

Arcobello is rubbish, it's a contract in/contract out deal.

Makes sense for Edmonton.

[drewtastic]

No fair. How come Arcobello gets two Christmases?

[Flames Fan, Ph.D.]

I understand the contract situation as a factor.

But as far as waivers work, am I correct in assuming that once they claimed one of Fraser / Roy that they'd have to wait for other teams to pass on the remaining player before they could claim him too?

Seems they wanted both but thought Fraser wouldn't be available if they took Roy first, but that Roy would be available regardless?

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

I agree he is not the player he once was, but disagree that it's not an upgrade for oilers at the center position.

Missing the point, 6 hours before this trade was announced, Oilers homer Stauffer was defending the Oilers not picking up Roy off waivers.

[sureLoss]

Mirtle was wrong

Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC
No salary retention in this EDM/NASH trade

[Bunk]

This trade, like Edmonton, is No Good.

[Jay Random]

Holy Katz.

Oil need another centre, so they get one via trade.

Except they trade a centre to get him.

Who’s running that team, anyway? It’s the mentality of a four-year-old who changes a dime for two nickels, and thinks he’s gained 10 cents.

(Only not even that good, because two nickels really are as good as a dime. Roy is older, more expensive, and has put up worse numbers this year than Arcobello. And since he’s UFA at the end of the year and Arcobello is RFA, they’re basically throwing away an asset at the end of the season. This is more like a four-year-old who changes a dime for one nickel, because nickels are bigger than dimes.)

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan

LOL, could have had him on waivers and they trade Arcobello for him? Can't make this stuff up folks.

Arcobello is crap anyway. Might as well ditch him.

[Resolute 14]

The Oilers needed to acquire a centre to fill the slot that will be left empty when they send Draisaitl back to junior... but they traded a centre to get that centre? It would have been a passable move if not for that.

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Missing the point, 6 hours before this trade was announced, Oilers homer Stauffer was defending the Oilers not picking up Roy off waivers.

Yup I missed it. I originally thought it was from 6 minutes ago not 6 hours ago. Guess Stauffer has egg on his face now. Not that he didn't before.

[bomber317]

so Draisaitl stays up? or do they actually send him down?

[Sylvanfan]

Aren't there rules regarding trading a player claimed on waivers? This could be a reason to go the trade route. Even up on contracts, and the flexibility to move him at the deadline if he shows something.