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He's 3rd in all of the AHL? Oh under 21 players got it. That’s great for us then since we can use that as a selling point.

I think Cirelli is a pipe dream imo. Not sure why Tampa would want to trade him and especially to someone within the division. I feel Adams will just promote from within at 3C, Kulich or Krebs most likely. I don’t see where Rosen fits on this team and still hasn’t really translated in the AHL as an ascending player. I’d like to see him dealt but I have no confidence in Adams to trade any prospects at this point until he shows otherwise.

But the Stephenson now is who we need on this roster, I dont want to wait around for Krebs to possibly be Stephenson in 2-3 years time down the road because there's a good possibility he never will be also. I doubt a team is signing him at 5 years 5.1M, maybe they will I truly suck at NHL projections but that seems high.

I think getting Chandler Stephenson to me would be the ideal 3rd line C for us, he offers everything that Krebs doesn't... Skill, toughness, grit, 52.6% on faceoffs. It's absolutely baffling to me what people see in Peyton Krebs at this point. He doesn't score, he doesn't fight, he has some toughness but is more or less just a guy who talks trash every now and again, only has 46.3% faceoff wins (Has over 400 less faceoff attempts as Stephenson and still not better at it). Stephenson is making 2.75M, bump it up to 3.75M per year for a 2 year deal? A nice million increase might entice him.

My bad I misunderstood, yeah for that role I’d love it but highly doubt he’d come over to us when he has a pretty solid gig in Florida.

Whoever it is they would need to not be pissing in their depends. Dude is 75 years old, he’s a sr advisor, making him the president is quite a role.

Let's have all ex Sabres running this for us... What could go wrong?

I get what you mean now. I would bail on both Muel and Clifton for Pesce but thats me, get some nice young bottom pair dmen.

No way is he commanding 8M, dude was making 4.03M and has an offensive output of 13 pts, 6.5M tops imo. Also I'd be fine dealing Clifton or Muel, neither would be as impactful as Pesce again imo.

I'd have Pegula do a full court press and fly that Jet for RHD Brett Pesce, I would deal Jokiharju with other pieces for a forward. Now you have: Line 1- LHD Owen Power RHD Rasmus Dahlin Line 2- LHD Bowen Byram RHD Brett Pesce Line 3- LHD Mattias Samuelsson RHD Connor Clifton Pretty solid defensive core with some ruggedness, skill etc.

I don't think the Oilers have the goaltending to win the cup although I'd like to see mcDavid hoist the cup, he's looking a little rough these days.

Iginla would be the only prospect i want in this draft class. His dad was 1 of my favorite players of all time and to see him come to our games to watch him would be amazing. The player is not necessarily like his father in every way but his brand of hockey is exactly what we're looking for.

Let’s all be honest, no top names are coming here to a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 13 seasons. Stamps is wanting to win cups not be excited to finally make a playoff appearance. I’m not even being negative I just believe that’s the reality of the situation. We could however find some decent vet players who are excellent role players.

Man I really hope you're right.

It's embarrassing that Kyle Okposo was our captain.

If we go into this season with the roster as is with rookies sprinkled in again it will be another long season. We need toughness, grit, backup goalie worth a damn, rugged defensemen and definitely need to upgrade Skinner on the top line. He wouldn't be on any teams top line in these playoffs. Adams has his work cut out for him and hasn't addressed those needs yet and it's going into year 5 so hopefully 5th times a charm?

Nobody saw this coming eh?

I hope I'm wrong and all Adams needs is a HC the caliber of Lindy Ruff to make things work.

You wrote a reply, I replied to your statement that I disagree with your take that. Now I'm not really sure what you're talking about, I might be lost in translation here.

I never once said anything about GM's being fired at the same rate as head coaches. I can't understand how anyone can say we need a 5th year to see what this GM can do. Also you say Adams is "clearly" a bright guy like it's fact, I guess we just see it differently and that's cool. Not everyone agrees with my take and I get that, I just don't know what I need to see in year 5 of the Kevin Adams experience that I haven't in years 1-4? I hope he does well obviously and we turn it around . He finally gets to show what he can do with a legit HC so we'll see.

I'll agree to disagree and 13 seasons of no playoffs is absolutely insane considering half the teams make it. I don't know what more we needed to see from Murray, Botteril and now Adams but I guess some still believe in him apparantly.

Not sure what you mean, 4 years of Tim Murray, 3 years of Botteril, going on 5 years of Adams.

Adams shouldn't even have this season, no respectable owner would have given Adams going on 5 seasons with not 1 single playoff series under his belt. This owner rewards mediocrity like no other unfortunately.

Sheesh, there have been so many I forgot about him. Evander Kane as well if you want to go back some years. We truly are a farm team for other top organizarions and people wonder why it's been so negative around here at times, imo it's much deserved.

Zadorov was great in the Vancouver/Oilers game also. Ullmark last year for the Bruins and the ***** show never ends.