Ongoing NHL Thread Part V minutes for fighting

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Who’s more likely to lose - Montreal to Anaheim or Buffalo to Detroit?

It was nice of Anaheim to swing into Buffalo and replace any lingering

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Yeesh dot gif

To be fair...his production tanked before we signed him to that absurd contract.

 

[puckhead]

another lol

6. I don’t think Darnell Nurse is going to be signing for $8 million per season. There’s what you ask for, and what you’re actually looking for. Nurse wants to be an Oiler, which supersedes everything else.

and he signs a deal to get him to UFA as quick as fucking possible.
Edmonton Oilers roll the dice on short-term extension for Darnell Nurse

 

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and he signs a deal to get him to UFA as quick as fucking possible.
Edmonton Oilers roll the dice on short-term extension for Darnell Nurse

Yup, great work by Ken Holland losing all leverage over Nurse. Now Darnell either holds the Oilers over a barrel (because they know they have no defensemen in Bakersfield) or simply walks to free agency. I mean, it's like Chiarelli never left Edmonton

 

[DragonfromTO]

Yup, great work by Ken Holland losing all leverage over Nurse. Now Darnell either holds the Oilers over a barrel (because they know they have no defensemen in Bakersfield) or simply walks to free agency. I mean, it's like Chiarelli never left Edmonton

This is how you can end up with the Dion Phaneuf situation, where you can't afford to sign the guy but you seemingly can't afford to lose him either.

 

[forty_three]

Yup, great work by Ken Holland losing all leverage over Nurse. Now Darnell either holds the Oilers over a barrel (because they know they have no defensemen in Bakersfield) or simply walks to free agency. I mean, it's like Chiarelli never left Edmonton

Caleb Jones can probably be a serviceable middle pair guy. And that's about it.

And with Nurse playing alongside Bear, his value is only going to go up the next two years.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Yup, great work by Ken Holland losing all leverage over Nurse. Now Darnell either holds the Oilers over a barrel (because they know they have no defensemen in Bakersfield) or simply walks to free agency. I mean, it's like Chiarelli never left Edmonton

Thank God Edmonton is still Edmonton-ing enough to distract even the tiniest bit from the dumpster fire in Buffalo.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Edmonton can play next season and try to sign Nurse to an extension with a year to go before his UFA. If at that point there’s no deal to be made they can still move him for a decent return.

In short, they could still totally Oiler this but they haven’t really Oilered it yet.

 

[dash]

Edmonton can play next season and try to sign Nurse to an extension with a year to go before his UFA. If at that point there’s no deal to be made they can still move him for a decent return.

In short, they could still totally Oiler this but they haven’t really Oilered it yet.

Are you saying the wheels have been greased for Edmonton to totally Oiler this?!?

 

[puckhead]

Edmonton can play next season and try to sign Nurse to an extension with a year to go before his UFA. If at that point there’s no deal to be made they can still move him for a decent return.

In short, they could still totally Oiler this but they haven’t really Oilered it yet.

Of course they COULD still re-sign him next year,
but the optics of "want to be an Oiler supercedes anything else" followed very shortly
with a deal that takes him exactly to UFA is extremely on-brand.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Yup, great work by Ken Holland losing all leverage over Nurse. Now Darnell either holds the Oilers over a barrel (because they know they have no defensemen in Bakersfield) or simply walks to free agency. I mean, it's like Chiarelli never left Edmonton

Seems like a lose-lose for the Oilers with this contract.

Even with term and several UFA years, is Nurse worth much more than $5.6M/year? I'd say not really. The point of the bridge deal is to save cap space in the short term at the price of not locking up the player long-term. This deal spends a pretty solid bit of cap space for the next two years and gives no long-term security that Nurse will be around past this contract.

 

[tducey]

Looks like Mcdavid is having issues with his knee. His status for tomorrow night vs. Chicago is in ?

 

[puckhead]

nice choice for the poster child of "useless"

The player each NHL team could do without

 

[mattola]

nice choice for the poster child of "useless"

The player each NHL team could do without

That was actually amazing lol

 

[wings-pens2166]

nice choice for the poster child of "useless"

The player each NHL team could do without

Murray certainly hasn't been up to par for the Pens, but how in the fuck is it anyone but Jack cement feet Johnson?

 

[puckhead]

 

[puckhead]

Canucks power play against Nashville this season...... 10 for 11

 

[higgyfan4]

nice choice for the poster child of "useless"

The player each NHL team could do without

They spelled Justin Abdelkader wrong

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

GM’s all thought the world was gonna end that year.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

nice choice for the poster child of "useless"

The player each NHL team could do without

I presume they just threw a dart at the Sabres roster to make their selection.