Comments on: Oilers offer Mike Comrie a $1.3M deal? http://puttingonthefoil.com/2009/08/oilers-offer-mike-comrie-a-1-3m-deal/ Edmonton Oilers Blog Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Hockey Noob http://puttingonthefoil.com/2009/08/oilers-offer-mike-comrie-a-1-3m-deal/#comment-515 Hockey Noob Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:54:42 +0000 http://www.puttingonthefoil.com/?p=931#comment-515 Steve-O, go comb your hair dude, it sounds like Hillary is coming to town after all!

]]> By: Racki http://puttingonthefoil.com/2009/08/oilers-offer-mike-comrie-a-1-3m-deal/#comment-461 Racki Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:58:34 +0000 http://www.puttingonthefoil.com/?p=931#comment-461 I agree on your thoughts about not wanting to give up Penner. He has been a factor, even when not specifically scoring. But I think this year he will find his goal-scoring game again, however.

]]> By: Haboiler http://puttingonthefoil.com/2009/08/oilers-offer-mike-comrie-a-1-3m-deal/#comment-459 Haboiler Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:50:09 +0000 http://www.puttingonthefoil.com/?p=931#comment-459 I would love to have Kessel here but a secondary deal for salary dump would probably need to happen …. could be Penner (I hope not), Souray (ditto), O’Sullivan (better than giving up Cogs), Gilbert (not a good thing), Nillson(please) or Staios (please). Penner needs to be given an opportunity to fail/succeed with this new coaching group. Quinn will be patient to an extent.

Kessel/Horc/Hemsky
Penner/Gagner/Cogs
Pouliot/Brule/Pisani
Stortini/Betts/Moreau

That 3rd line could be a good hybrid line for sure….

]]> By: Hockey Noob http://puttingonthefoil.com/2009/08/oilers-offer-mike-comrie-a-1-3m-deal/#comment-457 Hockey Noob Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:09:46 +0000 http://www.puttingonthefoil.com/?p=931#comment-457 Good to hear from Boston O! Yeah, I think that one of the obvious problems with hockey trade rumors is that there’s a huge gap between a team like the Oilers being interested in Kessel (hard not to be, lol) and perhaps having some discussion with Boston, then actually signing him. This is especially so since there would be some big salary cap issues involved to be able to do this deal.

]]> By: Racki http://puttingonthefoil.com/2009/08/oilers-offer-mike-comrie-a-1-3m-deal/#comment-455 Racki Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:14:30 +0000 http://www.puttingonthefoil.com/?p=931#comment-455 Well, it’s not impossible, but it’ll take some hefty salary dump in order to fit Kessel in here. Quite frankly though, I would love Kessel.. I’m sure you know that. But he’ll probably cost between 4 and 5 million. That’ll take dumping someone like Nilsson, and then more. As far as Staios, everyone is quick to dump him. Quite frankly, you’re right that his contract is not very good. However, we still don’t have a guy who can play the tough minutes against the tough opponents and come out not too bad.

Believe it or not, Souray and Staios were actually a lot better together than most people give them credit for. They only allowed 0.627 GA while on ice, per 20 minutes of ice time. That’s the lowest of our pairings. However, Grebs and Lubo also make probably our best pairing when you’re looking at goals differential / 20 mins of ice time (i.e. the number of goals their line scores minus goals they allow). They don’t face quite as tough of competition, however. But they might be close to being our top pairing, especially if Staios is gone.

All in all, I wouldn’t say Kessel will never happen, but it’s unlikely still. It seems funny that the source in Boston says we’re all over Kessel, but no one here says the same thing. But I would for sure welcome Kessel to E-town.

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