Oilers place Fayne on waivers

[Erick Estrada]

I recall pundits applauding the Oilers for signing Fayne but I never understood why as his career up to free agency pointed to a at best 3rd defenseman on a good team. I believe it has more to do with how barren free agency has become and how the media needs to sell the rumours and July 1st thing by hyping whatever is the best of that year's crop of free agents even if it's mostly crap. Same with Sekera. Lots of applaud for the Sekera signing and I'm thinking to myself "this is that guy from the Hurricanes that only stands out there because their defensive depth almost rivals the Oilers?".

[saillias]

I really wonder if Craig McTavish is slowly going to get the Greg Sherman treatment. Technically he keeps a title for appearance's sake but behind the scenes being pushed aside from the decision room and eventually shuffled out. Chiarelli is systematically undoing all of his work.

[GranteedEV]

He's not a bad player, but he's not an impact player. He's basically a right-stick version of Tyler Wotherspoon. On the right team he could find a niche, but he doesn't do any one thing at a level high enough to be noteworthy.

I don't think he was ever a bad signing for them FWIW, but they just couldn't find a niche for him. It's the same for us with Wotherspoon and how he's been surpassed by Kulak, Culkin, Nakladal, Kylington, Andersson, Hickey despite being basically a more polished version of the player he was two years ago when he was called up and looked decent in our top 6.

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Disagree. The Fayne / Greene pairing is a very solid 2nd pairing on a good team, and at times were in sneaky first pairing quality territory

Larsson / Greene is a very solid 1st pairing on a good team. The Devils have no reason to break up a better pairing to get back to a good former pairing.

[Jiggy]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I recall pundits applauding the Oilers for signing Fayne but I never understood why as his career up to free agency pointed to a at best 3rd defenseman on a good team. I believe it has more to do with how barren free agency has become and how the media needs to sell the rumours and July 1st thing by hyping whatever is the best of that year's crop of free agents even if it's mostly crap. Same with Sekera. Lots of applaud for the Sekera signing and I'm thinking to myself "this is that guy from the Hurricanes that only stands out there because their defensive depth almost rivals the Oilers?".

I remember Fayne getting a lot of attention cause of his Corsi.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

It was the first offseason where Advanced Stats were becoming a thing and he had really good advanced stats in New Jersey...if you ignored the split from when he was playing with Matt Greene against when he wasn't playing with Matt Greene.

I'm curious if another albatross contracts can be attributed to too many GMs watching Moneyball and fancying themselves as Brad Pitt.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I'm curious if another albatross contracts can be attributed to too many GMs watching Moneyball and fancying themselves as Brad Pitt.

More that they get convinced by bloggers they've found out some super secret gold mine that no one else has.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

Larsson / Greene is a very solid 1st pairing on a good team. The Devils have no reason to break up a better pairing to get back to a good former pairing.

Opportunity cost is a reason... but I haven't watched enough Devils games to determine whether Larsson could carry a pairing next to, say, John Moore.

[dustygoon]

Originally Posted by Weitz

Brutal signing by MacTavish. Unfortunately his contract isn't up at the end of the year like Nikitin's.

Have they started talks on resigning Niki yet?

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Ruttiger

MacTavish is officially worse than Mel Bridgman as a GM.

How many times a day do you suppose Chiarelli looks over at MacTavish and just rolls his eyes in wonderment and disgust?

There's just got to be a lot of eyerolling going on over there. It's just crazy.

They have a GM above a former GM who is above another former GM above a former Assistant GM.

I'm no business wiz, but that seems a little odd to me.

If the Flames went that route, Treliving would be the boss and then Feaster, Sutter, and Button would still be milling about in the building "helping" under various job titles.

EING? Is that how you say it?

[Roof-Daddy]

To think MacT actually offered more money to Clarkson than the Leafs did, but he chose TO anyways.

[Monahan For Mayor]

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

To think MacT actually offered more money to Clarkson than the Leafs did, but he chose TO anyways.

I wish he went to Edmonton. That cap hit would have caused them major issues.