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Last year after the Pats season he went straight to the AHL and put up 9 points in 9 games (3-6-9) respectively, It makes sense for him to go to the AHL again, and if need be call him up, at the same time no need for him to get hurt in the big leagues from some goon or what not..
oh yeah…that makes total sense, I didn’t even think about the free agent/9 game thing.
So not sure if this is old news or not, but Jones is out for 4 weeks with a torn MCL according to Snet… Pretty sad the league only gives Boogey 2 games when we lose Jones for pretty much the remainder of the season…
Yah that sucks. I am still not so sure it was Boogaard’s intent to knee him. Yah, Boogaard is the big bad bully, but it didn’t look as blatant as some of the other knee hits I’ve seen. In fact, it didn’t look intentional at all to me. But I’m relying on youtube video which can’t be put in slow mo at all. (boooo)
I really hope Eberle is with the Falcons march 26th. I got tickets to see them.
He will be, I’m sure.
Yeah I got tix for March 26 against the Lowell Devils. The tix are right behind the falcons bench. I’m hoping to get an autograph from him too!
Side note a few rumor websites (ek inclided sadly) believe that the Oilers will sign Jagr giving them a new an improved lineup
Jagr-Hall-Hemsky
Penner-Gagner-Eberle
Svensson-Brule-Cogliano
Jones-Potluny-Stortini
Reddox
Whitney-Smid
Gilbert/Souray-Johnson
Peckham-Chorney
Thats what some places are saying.
Bostonoiler: I really hope that the Oilers draft Seguin over Hall and respectably see Svensson/Eberle/Draft Pick all play a season or 20+ games in the AHL next year before they even think about playing them in the big league. Not a big fan of signing Jagr either unless he impresses us in camp and he signs for 2.00 Mil or under.
To Everyone: What are we going to do about our goalie situation for next season? Dubnyk/JDD would have to clear waviers if they get sent down and I could see someone possibly claiming Dubnyk (since JDD has been climbing the goalie depth chart. What’s your take on Khabibuilin?
Personally I wish we could skid him and ride JDD and Dubnyk next year to help with our “building/reconstruction”.
Ultimately we lose 2 of 3 goaltenders and pick up someone far more reliable.. but that won’t happen. As for who we go with, oi… tough call. Both JDD and Dubnyk have their good and bad sides. They may try the 3 goalie monster for a bit. Really they should be making that decision right fucking now, because they won’t get much opportunity to decide next year.
Also, just a reminder that Hall/Seguin won’t be eligible to play in Springfield next year. It’s the CHL or NHL for them.
I’m assuming Racki, that you mean keep JDD, get rid of Re-Khabi, trade Dubnyk and hopefully land someone like or Craig Anderson? And I think we may see one of our goalies used as bait come draft day (most likely Dubnyk unless he goes on some crazy streak).
And I keep forgetting that and no one will be eligible to play in Springfield next year anyways.
I think they should stick it out in the CHL then play in the AHL and work them up. I could see most organizations jump-starting Hall/Seguin though. And I forgot to mention before but I think that MPS is playing another season in the SEL.
I’ll be honest.. I don’t have faith in either goalie. JDD looks good at the moment, but there’s still no reason to believe he;’s worth keeping. Although Doobie has had some real stinkers this year though, granted.. so there seems to be little justification to keep him over Deslauriers. Although some of the games I’d say look worse on him than they were. But given how many games the two have received, I’d say the Oilers are already going to go with JDD (which works for me).
But anyways, the realist in me says Re-Khabi is going nowhere.
I’m no goalie expert but even if we did send Doobie back down and he wasn’t claimed, I remember Tambo going on how his days in the AHL were numbered and that this is his chance to show what he has in the big leagues. I don’t think he’s got a fair chance, like you mentioned it seems as though that the organization has already chose JDD but there’s something about Dubnyk I think we have yet to see. You’d think that being one of the top goalies in the AHL, or I think that’s the case, would transpire into the NHL. The one thing I do know about goalies though is that the development process is much longer. Hate to play the “what-if” game but I wonder where we’d be at if Dubnyk had an equal number of games behind his belt as JDD. It’s tough to say, after JDD streak through, they should throw Doobie in there a few times and experiment a little more with what we got, since we have nothing to lose.
And there is no question about it, once Khabi regains his health he will be between the pipes come the starting of the season.