Putting on the Foil

Tom Gilbert Traded to the Wild for Nick Schultz

Steve-O’s initial thoughts: Terrible trade. Absolutely terrible. Although I know nothing about Schultz.

Steve-O more rational thoughts 3 hours later: I still think we gave away a better D man. At best we broke even.

Racki’s info:
Here’s what I’ve been able to dig up about Nick Schultz:
Scouting Report
Assets

Has excellent speed, mobility and grit for the blue-line position. Plays with poise and is capable of logging a lot of minutes. Always gives his all and leads by example.

Flaws

Lacks the physicality to truly dominate offensive forwards. Doesn’t play with a lot of confidence in the offensive zone at the NHL level.

Career Potential

Solid defensive defenseman.

He’s 6’1, 200 lbs and shoots left (sucks losing a righty in Gilbert.. especially one that excels at moving the puck) and 29 years old.

$3.5M cap hit until end of 2013-14, so the Oilers save $500k in salary.

This is what the experts are calling a “hockey trade”. Tom Gilbert returns to his home of Minnesota.

Schultz averaged 19:35 in TOI this year so far with the Wild, with what looks like 2nd line pairing on the PP and top pairing on the PK.

Monday Morning Standings

When does Mad Men start again?

Oiler News

- Gagner still lighting the lamp, 3 points in the game last night to bring his February to a respectable 18 points in 9 games.
- Renney still feeling the post-concussion symptoms. The league really needs to look at fighting/head shots in order to cut down on this.
- O’Marra was traded for an offensive AHL defenseman.
- Hemsky looking good again, just in time for him to be shipped out for a shitty return (seriously people, we should want to keep NHL talent on the team). Although, one of the MSM asshats was saying that he’s considering a 2 year deal which would be cherry (as yeah, even I recognize this hasn’t been his greatest year).
- Kruger got a win!
- Eberle still awesome.

League News

- Tampa has started the fire sale, trading Downie for a Quincey, then turning around and flipping Quincey for a 1st round pick (and a prospect I heard)
- Montreal traded Gill to Nashville for a kid that now has way too much hype on him.
- Tampa traded Kubina to Philly for a bunch of picks, and Dallas traded Grossman to Philly for a bunch of picks.
- Comrie retired. Looks like he’ll have to spend some more time with Duff.
- James Neal got extended for 6 years and 30 mil.
- No surprises on the latest player poll.
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Oilers 3, Leafs 4 (OT) – Game 56 – 2012-02-15 @ 8:00 PM MST – SNETW

-={ Puttin’ On The Foil Presents… }=- vs. 22-28-5 Record 28-23-6 Location: Rexall Place Date: February 15, 2012 @ 8:00PM MST TV: SNETW

PRE-GAME RANT

Leafs are coming off blowouts to the bottom dwelling Canadiens and an injured and under-manned Calgary team so this should be a good time to kick the crap out of them. That said, Oilers like to be slump-busters so it may not turn out so well. Plus the Leafs won the last meeting a week ago, so I hope to get that back (the few Leafs fans I know have become damn near unbearable).

I predict a rather boring game, with both teams playing like shit. Maybe lots of screen time to Burke looking surly and Tambellini looking quite pleased with himself.

No idea about the lines yet, will leave them the same until later. Edit: From what I understand, Potter is now out due to some soreness or injury and Khabibulin is getting the start.

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Monday Morning Standings

Now I gotta see that movie Haywire

Oilers News

- Gagner keeps scoring. And lost among all of the noise is that Eberle is currently 8th in league scoring. Some good players on this team.
- But as Justin Bourne points out here, we have some real special players. And not in a good way.
- Nuge was hit and is out for another 7 to 10 days.
- Like his opinion or not, you have to admit Mc79hockey‘s new banner is pretty awesome.
- But I do happen to like his opinion (and BlackDogHatesSkunks) on Hemsky. Seems silly to run him out of town like he has been. And why people think that one bad year means his career is done.

League News

- Next year, the outdoor game will be going to Detroit. And will include the Laffs.
- Not NHL, but the Giants won the super bowl. I lost money.
- Gomez hasn’t scored in over a year!
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Monday Morning Standings

Yeah yeah, Friday again…although to be fair I actually thought it was Thursday today for the longest time (which yes, does make it better).

Oil News

- Everyone should be back healthy soon just in time to continue to suck. But this is good as I have tickets to the Detroit game Saturday.
- Except Gagner, not sure if anyone saw that. He had a decent game against the Blackhawks.
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