Comments on: Available Free Agents

By: Steve-O

Steve-O — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:18:39 +0000

And Harding just signed 3-years 1.9 avg…take him off the list (and that’s a damn good price!)

By: Steve-O

Steve-O — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:46:32 +0000

Jackman just signed so we can take him off the list.

By: Racki

Racki — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:48:40 +0000

Harding would be ideal at a decent price, but he’ll likely try and capitalize. A trade for Bobrovski might be possible.

See this post: http://puttingonthefoil.com/2012/06/pre-draft-trade-thoughts/#comment-49695 for a few other ideas.

By: chucker

chucker — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:58:27 +0000

The goalie pool sucks. Harding being the top guy…..I would be a bit gun shy and you know Philly will sign him. A truly food goalie will have to be traded for. Perhaps Bernier. I would target Jackman. Big, tough, nasty and good. We need that. I too am wary of Schultz, but Mackenzie says of NYR get him, Del Zotto is available. Could be interesting.

By: Racki

Racki — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:22:52 +0000

On Suter, would love to have him. Weber would be my preference though, but since he’s RFA, he’d be harder to acquire (i.e. trade needed). Suter will almost undoubtedly go to the Red Wings though, if the Preds don’t re-sign him. I think one of Suter or Weber will be going there… or New York (Rangers). I would love a guy like Suter here though.

I will point out though… we’re going to have to kiss a D man goodbye (Aside from Cam Barker, which should also be a no-brainer) if we want to acquire someone else. Currently at the NHL level we’ll have: Petry, Peckham, Potter, Sutton, Smid, Schultz, Whitney.

I really think the Oilers should have a good chat with a team with solid D (such as Nashville) and pry a stud d-man away. We’ll have our 1st, one of the D above, Gagner perhaps.. and some other assets available.

Our D really needs help, so we have a tough choice to make, unfortunately. There isn’t a guy in that list that I’m really dying to let go.