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Targeting an attribute is a little different than moneyballing one. The latter is about finding guys for dirt cheap and paying them dirt cheap because the stat isn’t universally recognized. These weren’t all cheap

Overpaying for guys you really want to target is okay. Far better than moneyballing some stupid stat or assuming all 4th liners are equivalent so choose the cheapest one. We just all have PTSD from Murray overpaying a decades worth of capital within a season for a whole bunch of duds and not a thought to cultural fit.

If we rehire Ruff and break the curse

To OP: no. We can add but trading them is silly.

What exactly is the allure of Trouba? It’s a lot of problems

Weren’t most our losses in goals due to the atrocious pp?

100 ptn team. Y’all underestimating coaching

Cozens was still fighting his concussion and isn’t the player that is going to succeed in a ‘figure it out yourself’ system Granato had for him

Imagine if our PP wasn’t a tire fire anymore McLeod doesn’t have a history on the PP at all either, which suppresses his numbers some

It’s all the new guys. Telling in more ways that one

Takes me as super low effort and all he did was look at goal changes and asked where’s the new forwards? Instead of realizing the drop in goals came from the same players and it was a utter coaching failure at fault

Trading away Clifton would be interesting. I could never trust his play. Would require Joki sticks it through though good to know we know the player well

The Eichel similarity runs deeper

Krebs was a part of a weak draft though

They were trying to bring Lindy in as an assistant coach weren’t they? So glad he negotiated all that power before joining on

Not Jokiharju? Sending back Greenway would at least simplify the roster shuffle

Are there fancy stats that are good for farabee? Only thing I’m seeing is overpaid high draft pedigree who never showed up, but likely put into situations well over his head that isn’t his fault. My interest would remain with a low acquisition cost since most teams can’t even absorb that contract even if they wanted to

It’s eeringly similar. Guy they put a lot of pressure onto because they are a bad team gets major surgery (literally the same as Eichel) and has a bunch of issues returning from it and just gets on the bad side of the front office and new coaches. Probably just needs a reset button plus he’d go from being the guy to being a 2nd liner down the depth chart

Yeah been looking at this one. Farabee had Eichels disk surgery and then got off on a bad start with Torts trying to recover from it. Guy seems like a perimeter shooter, not sure why the target Lindy will hate that; but given Krebs is all we’d give up I can believe we have a better chance at fixing his career than Krebs will. He really needs time to recover from that surgery, he wasn’t some freak of nature bodybuilder like Eichel was. we have the cap space to take him, which is why he’d be available for cheap. Krebs is a throwaway at this point.

Wahlberg is an interesting target but he’s definitely an area of surplus

He was a positive +\- player who played with bad linemates and tried to shutdown things away from all the talent on his team. He didn’t allow a goal against on the PK the entire playoffs Oilers fans are just looking for outs

These rumored deals are cheaper than I thought we’d get stuck with. No brainer from me. Yes those teams want quantity over quality so it can work. I thought we’d be done until trade deadline, but if these are on the table I’ll keep refreshing! Our team is full of snipers. Can use a playmaker Bigger question is whether Lindy wants his style

lol that trade would cause chaos here

Owning the land and leasing it out is a thing

What about his time in Minny? The Sabres system was slow as molasses last year