[Trade] Ducks trade Viktor Fasth to the Oilers for 2014 5th and 2015 3rd

[codynw]

Craig MacTavish @FakeOilersGM
Look Viktor, I know the Ducks are in 1st place, and that Anaheim is +20°C, and that Edmonton is -20°C, but… um...

[CalgaryFan1988]

I had no idea Fasth was 31.

[CaptainCrunch]

Realistically the picks don't matter because Edmonton sucks at drafting if the player isn't on the front page of the hockey news with the byline "Our consensus number one pick".

Is Fasth going to be another savior or exposed as benefiting from playing behind a very good team in Anaheim? Only time will tell, my guess is that his groin will exploded like dried wood from all the action that he's going to see. The nice thing for the Oilers is that they're not spending a ton of money on goalies. But I don't really think that this is any more then nibbling around the edges of a massively badly built organization that has slow roasted in incompetence juice for the last 8 years.

The bad coaching, lazy players and poor defensive awareness issues are going to be very difficult and painful to fix and shuffling goaltenders isn't going to help that.

For the Oilers to regain some faith with their fans they have to make a major move tomorrow, its just that simple, and Justin Schultz and Nail and Eberle aren't going to net the kind of franchise shifting move that they need to do.

I fully expect a mac-t press conference tomorrow after they fail to do anything significant and Hemsky and Gagner are still part of the team where Mac-T whines that they really really tried, and Lowe will stand in the background and flash gang signals while booming "6 Rings b1tches"

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

First headline from the Sun: "Fasth and Furious"

I was close, TSN actually used it instead.

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by Jacks

When they continue to get lit up on a regular basis are they still going to blame the goalies or do they start thinking maybe, just maybe the defense could use some sprucing up?

Have the oilers ever really had a good defensive unit? Don't think they'll ever get that notion in the works.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Realistically the picks don't matter because Edmonton sucks at drafting if the player isn't on the front page of the hockey news with the byline "Our consensus number one pick".

Really that's the bottom line. Unless the pick is in the first round the chances are the Oilers are going to waste their pick. Really you could take away all their picks after the 1st round over the past 5 years and they would be no worse organizationally.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by codynw

Craig MacTavish @FakeOilersGM
Look Viktor, I know the Ducks are in 1st place, and that Anaheim is +20°C, and that Edmonton is -20°C, but… um...

Anaheim + 20
Edmonton -20
Are you sure he is talking about temperature?
That might be goal differential last week.

[Philly06Cup]

San Jose backup Alex Stalock if quickly wondering if he can restructure a NMC to include a list of 29 teams he would be willing to go to.

[Tinordi]

Good moves by the Oilers to address the goalie situation. I like the 1a/1b approach, I think we'll see alot more teams moving to that in the next 10 years.