I think I'm alone here, but I actually kind of think the oilers didn't make a terrible move.
The two guys they moved out were very fringe players and I doubt they ever get much/if any NHL time. Maybe Hartikainen develops into a solid 2-way kind of guy and comes in, but it's still better for the oilers to add some older more experienced guys for the moment.
The guy they get back fits their needs and has decent NHL experience (~150+ games). I'm not saying he's an incredible defenceman but they got a guy who can and likely will play for them, giving up assets they had all but given up on and it improves their team. Please don't come back with hyperbole but their team is better than it was before the trade.
Ok lets see if I can put this in a way with maximum hyperbole in a pop culture situation that all of you young people can understand.
Lets say that you have a ship, its a big ship, looks beautiful and special and impressive when its not really doing anything. So you go out and hire some kind of violin band. Maybe 6 of them, but you don't scout them very well so the 6 violinists that you get are all tone deaf and blind and a bit intellectually challenged in playing the beautiful music that the violin deserves.
So your ship captain looks at this and says "You know what would make this better? Another violinist, so he goes to his first mate and says "Gilligan you idiot, add another chair to the band, and shuffle the other ones about while I get another violinist"
So the Captain brings in a 7th violin player, he looks great nice tuxedo great hair etc. But he too is tone deaf, and intellectually challenged when he plays with his instrument and he has a gaffing hook for a hand. But you know good enough, they set sail with this special band.
About 10 minutes in to the voyage the ship and we might as well call it the Titanic Oiler hits an ice berg and starts to sink. The passengers start to panic and blindly throw their pucks err luggage at random. The Chief Engineer a guy named Hall starts to run in a circle while doing nothing and all of the Nails pop off the deck. The Captain, orders the band to start playing to calm everyone down. But as the ship starts to sink into the inky depths the last sound that we hear is that violin band playing and it sounds like a cat being disemboweled with a tooth brush.
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I think I'm alone here, but I actually kind of think the oilers didn't make a terrible move.
The two guys they moved out were very fringe players and I doubt they ever get much/if any NHL time. Maybe Hartikainen develops into a solid 2-way kind of guy and comes in, but it's still better for the oilers to add some older more experienced guys for the moment.
The guy they get back fits their needs and has decent NHL experience (~150+ games). I'm not saying he's an incredible defenceman but they got a guy who can and likely will play for them, giving up assets they had all but given up on and it improves their team. Please don't come back with hyperbole but their team is better than it was before the trade.
No, I was thinking along the same lines. However, Edmonton only benefits from this trade until the end of the season.
Ya, this is a nothing deal that really doesn't do anything.
Coilers give up some useless ECHL plug that will likely never see the AHL, and some kid that doesn't want to be part of the Short Bus Special Coilers.
Coilers get some guy who can barely skate, can't pass to save his life, and was once a decent bottom pairing guy when he had any physicality or punch to his game, but really doesn't anymore since a Lucic (I think) slapshot broke his head last year. Now he can't crack the Leafs defence, and they give up 35 shots a game or so. He may be better than Potter or Belov, but probably not. More likely he is on par with Garbagekov.
It's not so much shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic as it is throwing over one totally broken deck chair and a picture of a deck chair and taking a rusted old lawn chair with a few missing straps where the seat used to be and putting it out by the pool of the ship while it slowly sinks...
Craig MacTavish @FakeOilersGM 13m
Mark Fraser is the gritty, stay-at-home defenceman this team has been lacking since I accidentally traded Ladislav Smid..
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^^ except worse than Smid at pretty much everything. Granted, he's cheaper than Smid too, but considering the special-ness of the Coilers, money shouldn't be an issue....
