Ryan McLeod is an excellent 3rd line Center and we’re in a far better spot this season than we were 2 hours ago.
July 5, 2024
Ryan McLeod is an excellent 3rd line Center and we’re in a far better spot this season than we were 2 hours ago.
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Ehlers for ostlund straight up or else fire gmka. Obviously.
Better than Mitts’ card…fwiw
Honestly I’m happy with a lot of players we added. Our bottom 6 was brutal last season!
We loved Matty Savoie but we also have to remember, we have: Konsta Helenius, Noah Östlund, Jiri Kulich, Zach Benson, Isak Rosén, Anton Wahlberg, etc etc. We have more high quality forward prospects than high quality forward spots on our team.
I’m excited for this move. Just last week people were saying in here (and I was in agreement) that it would be really concerning to only have Krebs available at 3C and here is our clear 3C.
We already have a better Savoie in Benson already playing in the lineup.
I don’t think anyone can’t deny this is pretty poor asset management by Adams. It’s important we get a guy who can contribute now but nice job Edmonton, you are the ones who benefit from this blunder.
Regardless of how both players end up this is not how to manage your roster with players you draft and develop for two years.
Also, we had the upper hand in this trade because we had the ability to solve Edm cap problem. To hand over Savoie while helping the out is a little mind boggling
Let the coping and gaslighting begin.
Look nothing wrong with McLeod. Decent player. It’s the same thing with Brett.
Value.
We gave up more value than we got back. It sucks, but let’s make the most of it
Hard agree. I think we can be a bubble team as we are now. Get another top 6 and we can low key contend baby.
At the very least, should be interesting… switched out almost half of the forward group
But I was told if we didn’t solve every roster issue by July 2nd, we were done and this was the roster we’d have going into October and Adams wasn’t doing anything.
But it’s July 5th, and we can still make trades to improve the roster? I was told that never happens in the NHL according to people who know everything about the offseason!
I’m so confused. People who obviously know more than me told me we were doomed as soon as we didn’t solve every hole we needed to fill within 24 hours of free agency. Especially so when we didn’t do it at the draft! That our 3C would be Krebs and that was the be all end all off the offseason. That the offseason ended on July 2nd.
Everyone points to the Skinner buyout and how we haven’t filled that top 6 winger spot yet, despite the fact we traded for Jeff Skinner on August 2nd, 2019!
*Sacrebleu!* I don’t know what to think anymore!
? Ofc trading a prospect for a player in their prime makes the team better currently
NHL fans should be way more critical of mgmt but everything seems to get the rose coloured glasses these days
Y’all remember when a 9th overall pick brought in prime Corey Schneider right?
The guy who led the league in sv% from 2010-2015 by around 5 percentage points, mostly unprecedented in NHL history
Now a pretty recent 9th overall pick developing right on schedule just brought in a 2nd liner at best, for perspective
You guys are huffing the copium when every edm fan is saying the guy doesn’t pass the eye test. Decidedly meh player.
Literally anything or anyone is better than playing Krebs there.
People complaining are acting like Savoie is a bonafide star… People are so narrow minded that they think Adams should’ve got more value as if there’s not 31 other front offices who do not value Savoie as highly as the fans.
Want to emphasize that he excels in two areas the Sabres struggle in – zone exits and creating offense in zone off the forecheck. McLeod’s microstats had him in the 85th percentile in offense creation off the forecheck and 88th for in-zone shot assists
The Sabres have been horribly inept at creating offense in-zone and if a team could shut down their rush last year, the Sabres were probably going to lose
Building a 3rd line that is defensively sound and can create offense without relying completely on the rush would make this a much better team
If Benson can get a bit faster I think he’d pair excellently with McLeod
Where do we think Krebs is slotting on this team after this move and the 4th line revamp? 3rd line wing?
Or is he packaged with someone else as trade bait?
It’s poor asset management, It’s ridiculous to paint it any other way.
No lets just prospect hug until they don’t turn out to be a top 6 player then retroactively bitch how we never traded them. There’s no fucking winning with half the fanbase. It’s either do nothing and they whine about that or, make trades to better the team to which they’ll cry that we got fleeced etc.
I got no skin in the game and have zero clue about Savoie so no idea about the trade. But I have watched a lot of Oilers hockey so I can use it to talk shit to some friends and family I have that cheer for them.
McLeod is incredibly streaky, even with his speed. Sometimes it’s useful and he uses it with purpose. Other times he does a disappearing act where you wonder how a guy that fast can be that invisible. Hes able to create puck battles at will defensively with his speed and positioning but his lack of interest to engage physically causes him to fail to create anything off of those puck battles. He was the softest player on the Oilers last season and it magnified itself in the playoffs. Hopefully he gets better at that under Lindy Ruff and really cements himself as a nice 3rd line center similar to Todd Marchant.
We are better this season than we were a few hours ago. I guess for a team with a 13 year playoff drought, maybe it’s OK to worry a little bit more about the present than a future which seems never to come for this team.
Can someone do that thing where they post what the lines may look like next season? I like dat.
I have come around and am happy with it
look at that PK… Maybe playing with Benson and Greenway grinding and getting some feeds he ups that finishing and goals.
Lmao
Robbery!
How are the Oilers pulling so many fast ones???
“We’re going to trade future goals… for no goals from a one year rental that definitely doesn’t want to be here after making it to the Stanley Cup on a competent team.”
Kevyn just speed running the “repeat another 80 point season and get fired” challenge…
26 comments
Ehlers for ostlund straight up or else fire gmka. Obviously.
Better than Mitts’ card…fwiw
Honestly I’m happy with a lot of players we added. Our bottom 6 was brutal last season!
We loved Matty Savoie but we also have to remember, we have: Konsta Helenius, Noah Östlund, Jiri Kulich, Zach Benson, Isak Rosén, Anton Wahlberg, etc etc. We have more high quality forward prospects than high quality forward spots on our team.
I’m excited for this move. Just last week people were saying in here (and I was in agreement) that it would be really concerning to only have Krebs available at 3C and here is our clear 3C.
We already have a better Savoie in Benson already playing in the lineup.
I don’t think anyone can’t deny this is pretty poor asset management by Adams. It’s important we get a guy who can contribute now but nice job Edmonton, you are the ones who benefit from this blunder.
Regardless of how both players end up this is not how to manage your roster with players you draft and develop for two years.
Also, we had the upper hand in this trade because we had the ability to solve Edm cap problem. To hand over Savoie while helping the out is a little mind boggling
Let the coping and gaslighting begin.
Look nothing wrong with McLeod. Decent player. It’s the same thing with Brett.
Value.
We gave up more value than we got back. It sucks, but let’s make the most of it
Hard agree. I think we can be a bubble team as we are now. Get another top 6 and we can low key contend baby.
At the very least, should be interesting… switched out almost half of the forward group
But I was told if we didn’t solve every roster issue by July 2nd, we were done and this was the roster we’d have going into October and Adams wasn’t doing anything.
But it’s July 5th, and we can still make trades to improve the roster? I was told that never happens in the NHL according to people who know everything about the offseason!
I’m so confused. People who obviously know more than me told me we were doomed as soon as we didn’t solve every hole we needed to fill within 24 hours of free agency. Especially so when we didn’t do it at the draft! That our 3C would be Krebs and that was the be all end all off the offseason. That the offseason ended on July 2nd.
Everyone points to the Skinner buyout and how we haven’t filled that top 6 winger spot yet, despite the fact we traded for Jeff Skinner on August 2nd, 2019!
*Sacrebleu!* I don’t know what to think anymore!
? Ofc trading a prospect for a player in their prime makes the team better currently
NHL fans should be way more critical of mgmt but everything seems to get the rose coloured glasses these days
Y’all remember when a 9th overall pick brought in prime Corey Schneider right?
The guy who led the league in sv% from 2010-2015 by around 5 percentage points, mostly unprecedented in NHL history
Now a pretty recent 9th overall pick developing right on schedule just brought in a 2nd liner at best, for perspective
You guys are huffing the copium when every edm fan is saying the guy doesn’t pass the eye test. Decidedly meh player.
Literally anything or anyone is better than playing Krebs there.
People complaining are acting like Savoie is a bonafide star… People are so narrow minded that they think Adams should’ve got more value as if there’s not 31 other front offices who do not value Savoie as highly as the fans.
Want to emphasize that he excels in two areas the Sabres struggle in – zone exits and creating offense in zone off the forecheck. McLeod’s microstats had him in the 85th percentile in offense creation off the forecheck and 88th for in-zone shot assists
The Sabres have been horribly inept at creating offense in-zone and if a team could shut down their rush last year, the Sabres were probably going to lose
Building a 3rd line that is defensively sound and can create offense without relying completely on the rush would make this a much better team
If Benson can get a bit faster I think he’d pair excellently with McLeod
Where do we think Krebs is slotting on this team after this move and the 4th line revamp? 3rd line wing?
Or is he packaged with someone else as trade bait?
It’s poor asset management, It’s ridiculous to paint it any other way.
No lets just prospect hug until they don’t turn out to be a top 6 player then retroactively bitch how we never traded them. There’s no fucking winning with half the fanbase. It’s either do nothing and they whine about that or, make trades to better the team to which they’ll cry that we got fleeced etc.
I got no skin in the game and have zero clue about Savoie so no idea about the trade. But I have watched a lot of Oilers hockey so I can use it to talk shit to some friends and family I have that cheer for them.
McLeod is incredibly streaky, even with his speed. Sometimes it’s useful and he uses it with purpose. Other times he does a disappearing act where you wonder how a guy that fast can be that invisible. Hes able to create puck battles at will defensively with his speed and positioning but his lack of interest to engage physically causes him to fail to create anything off of those puck battles. He was the softest player on the Oilers last season and it magnified itself in the playoffs. Hopefully he gets better at that under Lindy Ruff and really cements himself as a nice 3rd line center similar to Todd Marchant.
We are better this season than we were a few hours ago. I guess for a team with a 13 year playoff drought, maybe it’s OK to worry a little bit more about the present than a future which seems never to come for this team.
Can someone do that thing where they post what the lines may look like next season? I like dat.
I have come around and am happy with it
look at that PK… Maybe playing with Benson and Greenway grinding and getting some feeds he ups that finishing and goals.
Lmao
Robbery!
How are the Oilers pulling so many fast ones???
“We’re going to trade future goals… for no goals from a one year rental that definitely doesn’t want to be here after making it to the Stanley Cup on a competent team.”
Kevyn just speed running the “repeat another 80 point season and get fired” challenge…