26 Feb 2018 22:44:25
In off season

Edmonton - Kailer Yamamoto, Caleb Jones, 2019 1st round pick.

Carolina - Jeff Skinner

Gives oilers a top line winger that can keep up with Mcdavid skating and can score goals with the best of them.

Oilers pay a hefty price but with skinners numbers, contract and the fact he’s only 25, I think it’s something they would be smart to consider. I could see a guy like skinner wanting to re sign for a chance to play along side mcdavid for years too.

If Kane, Nash, Statsny all got a 1st, prospect and 4th as rentals, I think a player who is younger, better and has term left has to be worth a first, a really good prospect and a good prospect.

1.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 00:34:17
Not enough imo.

2.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 01:44:33
It's a good idea Jim, just think it may be a little much for Skinner. I do see the Oilers improving nezt year and not being a lottery team, however, also thought they were fav to come our of the West this year. or at least battle Preds for that, so . for me the 2019 1st is the big question.

3.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 04:41:20
Maybe 2019 1st, this year wouldn't wanna give a top 5-6 pick a hope they rebound next year.

4.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 05:04:44
Holy rubbish no thanks from Edmonton.

5.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 05:05:11
I also really like skinner but Edmonton does not do that bro.

6.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 14:06:27
No from Canes Jones isn't anything good probably will be a third pairing guy. Then we got Yamamoto who could be a top 6 winger or could be an AHLer. We don't know so not worth it to trade a young 25 top line winger with good contract and leadership for a possible th if pairing and possible middle 6 winger maybe top 6 but nobody knows. And a top 15 maybe 10 pick.

7.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 15:07:34
Sorry, no go on this one.
Edmonton can't take on Skinner's salary unless an equal amount of salary goes back.


Sekera or Russel straight for Skinner who is in essence a rental player with only 1 year left on his contract before bolting as a UFA is about the only choice.

Pretending for a minute that Edm did have the cap space, a 1st round pick and maaaaybe Jones is all Skinner's worth for 1 year of service.

Sorry Carolina fans. Not getting much more unless Skinner's contract is extended as a part of the deal.

8.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 16:03:29
#1 it does say 2019 1st rounder. So you assume they can be a better team next year and it’s not a top 5 pick.

#2 same oilers fans who thought pat maroon was worth a 1st rounder a week ago think a first and a really good prospect and decent prospect for 25 year old skinner is ‘Rubbish’ lol

I can handle if you don’t like my idea and make a good argument back but just saying it’s trash because you think everyone your team has is god is ridiculous. You clearly don’t have a clue on value anyway because that first for maroon is actually a late 3rd.

At 25 skinner may have his 4th 30+ goal season, high of 37 goals last year, 20+ twice (including a season he missed 20 games) and 13 in the short season. If those numbers were on an oilers player at that age and someone offered this same package you would be offended too. There’s no winning with 2 clowns.

9.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 16:31:40
Also sekera or Russell straight up? Lol just because Chiarelli gives top line wingers straight up for Larson (who is better than both those other D) doesn’t mean anyone else is dumb enough to. Oilers management for years overvalued those players they drafted high (hall, eberle, RNH, yakupov, Pajarvi) and instead of making decisions on them and picking the cpl you wanted to move forward with while trading the others for good pieces (like a skinner) they kept them all until their value was at its lowest and moved them out at a loss. I felt bad for oilers fans, because their management was depriving them of a good team. Now I see that you guys are on the same page as them. Never think a bad thing about a player in orange, assume they’re all great and no amount of them can be traded for a massive upgrade. Then we can have this talk again in 3 years when you’re trading Yamamoto for mid round picks and on the outside looking in AGAIN lol.

10.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 17:39:41
Why are you getting mad.

11.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 18:16:06
I’m not getting mad. I think it’s funny. We as leaf fans had to endure years of criticism and told we were crap and we were. However ownership and management was happy to just be good enough to compete for a playoff spot, sometimes make it, sometimes not. Never be good enough to win, but never bad enough to draft high enough to turn it around. But that wasn’t the fans. The fans wanted that rebuild that we finally got for a decade or more! However the oilers fans are apparently so egotistical that they will say that what’s going on isn’t just acceptable, but right lol you will defend every player and every trade and every decision like it was your own, rather than see that there is a chance to get better. No one in Edmonton, player or gm can be bad at their job, until they leave for nothing, or next to it (3rd round picks) . Then you’re glad they’re gone because they were garbage lol pat Chiarelli on the back again, he’s done a great job!

12.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 18:48:25
Oh god chiarelli is garbage yup can agree with that really sucks having him lmao.

13.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 19:09:43
The only thing he hasn’t screwed up in 2 years is mcdavid. And he gets no credit for mcdavid because a blind cricket coach would have drafted mcdavid and given him a blank check. But from Draisaitl to eberle/ strome to Brazal to lucid contract he has mos managed everything.

14.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 20:21:07
Basically, why would you put your faith in Chiarellis draft picks for your team, both past and future (Yamamoto, Jones, and 2019 1st) to pan out rather than a 25 year old proven star in a position of dire need for your team, when everything else the guy has touched he has misjudged, misplayed and mismanaged. How do you have faith in the players he’s picked to be good when he has been wrong on just about everything else since he got there?

15.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 22:28:57
My reasoning is Edmonton has barely any prospects who have a chance at cracking the oilers roster so why give away 3 potential ones. And then oilers can’t have skinners cap we’re already way too crunched, and third I said I like skinner I really do earlier I proposed Nuge for Skinner (makes more sense for both teams) and I just don’t think Edmonton should again clean out every prospect since we already have none lol. That’s all.

16.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 23:39:41
Well oilers D is still young with Larson, nurse, klefbom in that top 4 and obviously Bear is above jones because of how high you guys seem to be on him plus a few others below him. Up front there’s puljiarvi, benson among others plus whoever they take with a high pick in 2018. And I get wanting prospects but you have the best player in the world and a core on prime age. I would hate to be a fan watching them waste seasons of this to make sure they’re decent in 3 more years. Skinner would make them far better today, Yamamoto might make the team down the road.

17.) 28 Feb 2018
28 Feb 2018 20:41:09
Yeah agree with Jim. Oil should be done with prospects and be ready for impact players. But I mean obviously high end prospects are still really valuable to a team. And too comment on the Maroon thing I thought a team trading down from a late first to an early third was reasonable and still kinda do considering what other prospects got. I just think Chiarelli sucks. Lol also don’t tell me Oil fans over valued Hall. Now that he’s not an Oiler I’m not biased in saying he has crazy high value just once again Chiarelli sucks.

18.) 28 Feb 2018
28 Feb 2018 22:52:48
@ Ebs, Hall was always good, in a bad situation. I don’t mean it as a shot at any of the players, they’re all good and trying their best. It was a shot at management. All they had was young talented forwards and should have made a decision on a cpl of them way before they did.

Swapped some for D when they had high value rather than waiting and selling low on hall, eberle, yakupov, pajarvi. I remember leading up to the 2012 draft, oilers won the first pick again and already had eberle, Gagner, hall, RNH and pajarvi up front and rumours were that leafs and islanders both made offers for the yakupov pick. Leafs was RFA D Cody Franson and the 5th pick (Morgan Rielly) and Islanders was a D also, might have been DeHaan but not certain anymore, and the 4th pick (griffin Reinhart) .

How much further ahead would that team have been with Franson and rielly than yakupov? But they valued all their players so high and waited too long to make a decision on who was the real core, Then sold them for pennies on the dollar. Now the reverse argument is with rielly and Franson over yakupov you might not have mcdavid, but still hate to see oilers miss another opportunity by being afraid to move prospects for good players now, because despite being called a hater on here, I’ve always liked Edmonton. Have family there and used to go see games quite a bit. Grew up idolizing Ryan Smyth when I played too.