Edmonton Oilers Trade Talk: “…one of the teams immediately connected to those rumors was the Edmonton Oilers.”

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Sportsnet

To end skid, Oilers make the most of Hockey Gods granting them good fortune

Inside the first five minutes of Thursday night’s win, the Oilers allowed a two-on-one to the Columbus Blue Jackets, took a too many men on the ice penalty, and then surrendered a three-on-one.
Skinner made his saves, and the Blue Jackets executed like a team that has two wins in its past 10 games.
Jesse Puljujarvi scored on both ends of that early power play with goal just 46 seconds apart, and then Ryan poked home a loose puck at 11:07.
Edmonton’s power play was awake, they had a fourth-line goal that has been almost non-existent for the past month, and they were on their way to a comfortable 5-2 win.
Just up from a stint in the minors, Brendan Perlini found himself on a line with Ryan and Zack Kassian and decided to play like the guy who had six pre-season goals at training camp last fall.
Kassian added an assist for the second straight game after six pointless, and Warren Foegele — playing on the top line in Zach Hyman’s absence — guided in an empty netter for his first goal in 21 games.

BLH’s Thoughts: As I was saying yesterday, I thought it would take a bad game from Edmonton’s opposition for them to snap the slump and Columbus came in and shit the bed. Their roster isn’t exactly teeming with A-grade talent these days with Laine and Boqvist out, but the Oilers have lost to lesser teams in their last ten games… To me, it looked like the BJs wanted to get this game out of the way as they lacked any real intensity whereas Glen Gulutzan’s men were on a mission to come away with the two points.

The Oilers have a bit of breathing room between them and the 9th place Winnipeg Jets, but it’s a dog’s breakfast looking up the standings as only three points separates Edmonton from the 3rd place Nashville Predators. Minnesota sits atop the West with 40pts and Anaheim has chopped wood and carried water to 2nd with 39pts.

Seattle is up next for Edmonton!

Cult of Hockey

Player grades: Skinner, Perlini and Puljujarvi lead Edmonton Oilers huge win over Columbus Blue Jackets

Duncan Keith, 3 . Blew a tire leading to an early 2-on-1 against, but Skinner made up for his mistake. A moment later, the veteran made a terrible pinch leading to a 3-on-1 break, but again Skinner stood up big. Next he took an ill-advised cross-checking penalty. He settled down after that.
Kyle Turris, 4. Too quiet a game for a forward. A few decent shot late.
Kailer Yamamoto, 5. His hustle led to early penalty call, giving Edmonton a two-man advantage due to a major mental error by Voraceck, not leaving the ice when his helmet came off. But a quiet game otherwise.
Leon Draisaitl, 5. He started off the game with an o-zone turnover and weak back check leading to a 5-alarm chance that could easily have had Columbus up 1-0… And he was part of the Sequence of Pain on CBJ’s second goal, losing a battle.
Stuart Skinner, 8. Great game… He made another stop on a 5-alarmer off Voracek early in the third. He faced 16 Grade A shots in total, allowing only two goals.
Brendan Perlini, 8. He ripped seven shots on net. Oilers out-shot CBJ 12-3 when he was on the ice. Great game for the role player.
Derek Ryan, 7. Go to the net and good things happen for a third time. He jammed in Perlini’s outside shot for a goal, a reward for more solid play from him of late.
Jesse “The Bison King” Puljujarvi, 8. Go to the net and good things happen, twice in a row… He led the team with eight shots on net, four of them Grade A blasts. Excellent confidence and dexterity with the puck all night. He hit Foegele with a great stretch pass for Edmonton’s fifth goal.

BLH’s Thoughts: The unusual suspects had it going all night long, didn’t they. I was certain Skinner was going to get a shutout until Nyquist was left all alone for a tap-in in the third. But how about the bottom-six finding their scoring touch for a second game in a row?

Derek Ryan’s starting to look like the guy Ken Holland envisioned when he signed him this summer.

Brendan Perlini, what was that?! Did that stint in Bakersfield really jack his confidence that much or were the Blue Jackets simply that bad when he was on the ice? Man did he have himself an evening.

Has Kyle Turris not hit the iron two games on the trot now? I swear he’s rung a couple of shots off the post since being thrown back into the lineup.

My favorite thing about the bloggers vs. journos battle on Oilers Twitter is when a guy like Jim Matheson or Mark Spector tweets out that Yamamoto didn’t have a shot for the 7th game in a row and it gets quote-tweeted with a comment pointing to him being 2nd on the team in drawn penalties as if that means something… The f*cking guy can’t score and he’s in the top six, FFS!

If you’re an NHL player and you’re on the top two lines, the expectation is that you get goals and assists! It’s not like being a skilled player who can draw penalties is anything special… That’s what they do!

For Yamo, he’s in between a rock and a hard place because if he goes to the net and sits on the edge of the blue paint, he’s going to get hurt. Some 6’5″ behemoth is simply going to fold him up like an accordion and that’s game over, but he’s not strong enough to beat NHL goalies with his shot consistently. So what do you do with the guy?

If he’s so good defensively and players love playing with him, get him on a shutdown line with two other big bodied forwards and make him a specialist in that regard because he’s starting to develop a reputation as a guy who can’t score.

Leon Draisati has got to be wondering what the hell he did to be saddled with two wingers who can’t score a goal if their life depended on it.

Did you see how that hit from Foegele on Max Domi took Tie’s kid right out of the game?

Jesse… Jesse!!! Told ya… Most consistent player on the team and is now a PP threat to go along with Connor and Leon. Just got to get the QB scoring from the blue and Nuge potting one in from the left-wall and the Oilers could boast that they have a similar PP to the Capitals and you know what happens then, right? Leon is constantly left wide open because the PK unit is too paranoid to commit to covering him as they try and stop the other threats.

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The Hockey Writers Rumors

When news broke that the Arizona Coyotes might be making Chychrun available and testing the market to see what value the team could get in a trade, one of the teams immediately connected to those rumors was the Edmonton Oilers. A number of media personalities and NHL insiders connected the dots and suggested the Oilers should be in on those conversations.
- A left-shot defenseman has been identified as a need for the Oilers but as David Staples noted on Oilers Now Wednesday the team will only have the ability to make one big trade this season. The key will be identifying the greater need — either a defenseman, goaltender, or a third-line center.
As per Elliotte Friedman, it doesn’t sound like the Sabres are terribly interested in goaltender Anton Khudobin.

BLH’s Thoughts: If I were an Oilers fan and I was a draft junkie, I’d start doubling down on the kids who are slated to go in the 4th round and beyond because my feeling is that Ken Holland is going to go shopping with the picks he has in the first three rounds of not only the 2022 draft but the 2023 one as well.

As for Chychrun’s price, it’s said to be MASSIVE, thus I wonder if what Chicago paid for Seth Jones could be used as a comparable. That return consisted of Adam Boqvist, 2021 and 2022 first round picks and a 2021 2nd round pick.

So in a sense, three first rounders and a second rounder for a $9.5M top-pairing defenseman. Surely the Coyotes would want a bit more considering Chychrun’s deal is $5M cheaper for the next three years though.