Shattenkirk just signed to a good deal for st.loo.
Plus not sure his size and style should be our first target on the backend. More a bigger two way guy.

And the more i think about it, the more i think mact's done improving our defence.
Not to say it's right, but i think he got belov to compete with potter for the 6 spot. and with all 3 including n. schultz only having 1 year left, im guessing he waits till next off season to sign a quality dman from a wayyy deeper fa crop. This moves ference or smid down to the third pairing and still has an open spot for one of klefbom/marincin.

Just a guess
- hugefemale dog77

Haha, "compete with Potter."

Thats like saying "Im gonna try and bang laughs' sister."

Jones 1 year details to follow

snowball's chance in hell that Cheechoo gets signed? I guess they probably like tough Acton tinactin and Arco Polo more, but could Cheech possibly be headed up (in smoke)?

Jones 1 year details to follow
- Killbot460

Good poop, I like me some jonesy.

Oilers 2013-2014 as of now:

Hall-Gagner-Eberle
XXX-Nuge-Eberle
MPS-Gordon-Jones/Joensuu
Joensuu/Jones-Smyth-Brown

Schultz-Ference
Petry-Schultz
Larsen-Belov/Smid

Jones 1 year details to follow
- Killbot460

Meh

Grabo or Roy are out there
- Killbot460

Do we want either of those guys with multi year deals?
Prob what it takes to get em. And doubt grabo would be cheap.
Id consider it though uf we got stewart in the other deal

Not sure either (especially roy) is the answer at 2C for a championship team

Need to be careful with the purse strings imo. Resign petry, nuge, j schultz and dubs. Plus a deep fa crop.
i think we can be semi frugal and compete for a playoff spot with this lineup (a few more pieces obv) and a year furthur for the kids.

Oilers 2013-2014 as of now:

Hall-Gagner-Eberle
XXX-Nuge-Eberle
MPS-Gordon-Jones/Joensuu
Joensuu/Jones-Smyth-Brown

Schultz-Ference
Petry-Schultz
Larsen-Belov/Smid
- Morris

Jagr?

Jones tweets... in the words of eminem, it feels so good to be back.

Guess he got resigned.
- HouseArrest187

Like Oilnutz said a reasonable player. slotted in the 12th spot and can be moved around a bit.

I'm up for Penner, or cleary, or Roy...A trade for Vanek, would have to include PRV plus plus

Meh
- robin_steele264

same

Jagr?
- robin_steele264

Jagr makes sense if hemmer's still around. Antro makes sense as well. Would count out getting another 3rd liner type that can play up and down.

If our mythical Abdelkader for Hemsky deal goes through, I'm happy. (frank) even Stafford at this point.

Jagr?
- robin_steele264

Yak city?

Do we want either of those guys with multi year deals?
Prob what it takes to get em. And doubt grabo would be cheap.
Id consider it though uf we got stewart in the other deal

Not sure either (especially roy) is the answer at 2C for a championship team

Need to be careful with the purse strings imo. Resign petry, nuge, j schultz and dubs. Plus a deep fa crop.
i think we can be semi frugal and compete for a playoff spot with this lineup (a few more pieces obv) and a year furthur for the kids.
- hugefemale dog77

I here ya but that's if we move gagner+ for Stewart. Grabo would fill the void short term

Haha, "compete with Potter."

Thats like saying "Im gonna try and bang laughs' sister."
- TheTaoOfSemenko

For realz brah.

I just dont wanna assume too much from a russian dude from the K ive never seen play. But By all accounts hes a superior player to potter ( which isnt too difficult to achieve)

For realz brah.

I just dont wanna assume too much from a russian dude from the K ive never seen play. But By all accounts hes a superior player to potter ( which isnt too difficult to achieve)
- hugefemale dog77

Exacto.

Jagr?
- robin_steele264

why the (frank) not.. at this point... we wanted him so bad in 2008... ... good interviews...

Jagr?
- robin_steele264

Can he play lw?

Like Oilnutz said a reasonable player. slotted in the 12th spot and can be moved around a bit.

I'm up for Penner, or cleary, or Roy...A trade for Vanek, would have to include PRV plus plus
- DrinkOil

no thanks. i would consider checking to see would cleary be open to a one year $2.5m

Can he play lw?
- hugefemale dog77

Hall-Nuge-Eberle
Jagr-Antropov-Hemsky
MPS-Gagner-Yakupov
Joensuu-Gordon-Jones

It's a speculative thought...

Hall-Nuge-Eberle
Jagr-Antropov-Hemsky
MPS-Gagner-Yakupov
Joensuu-Gordon-Jones

It's a speculative thought...
- Morris

Switch lines 2 and 3.

Can he play lw?
- hugefemale dog77

Jagr is a rw for shizzel.... however he may have played centre for the rangers for short spurts... so probably doesn't work unless we hang onto hemsky and form a 3rd scoring line.

Oh so lets run him out of town then. When you have this many holes on a team, finding serviceable isn't a bad thing. Plus why shouldn't he get 15 goal/year a guy money. How many Oilers have scored 15 goals or more in the past 3 years. Go back past his injury and the same bone heads where wanting to trade him too because he didn't do something that they wanted.

Yes you are an idiot. Not because you don't think like me but because like most Oilers fans, you haven't had the privilege of watching many ACTUAL HOCKEY PLAYERS play in such a long time, that you know don't know what one is, unless he is named Hall, and even then you want to make him a center.

Good luck to the players on this team. As for the management, ownership and most of the fans, you deserve a losing team just because you don't know how to appreciate the good things. Jones has been one of the moves that actually worked out for this team and dumb asses like you have wanted to skid him since he got here.

Why you jealous because he had some success? He a better hockey player then you? Better hair? Actually can do something with his life.

Yes I'm calling you and fans, more specifically Oilers Fans, like you idiots. Why. Because I'm sick of hearing you rip anything that is good about this team while you drink the kool-aid and fight like crazy to help a billionaire completely rip off the city, because it's good for THE TEAM.

Talk to me in 10 years when Katz has Edmonton by the nuts again, the stars of today are long gone because the got sick of IDIOTS like you in the stands and KLowe has lead Edmonton to the bottom of the standings again.
- Oilnutz

Easy there fella.

Why u so mad? Jeez. That post was painful to read.

Jealousy? I think buddy just wants the team to be better. Jones for cheap is a decent depth guy with alot of effort, but he has been part of a weak bottom 6 on a bad team For awhile. this isnt even debateable.
i dont think he hates or is jealous of jones on a personal level. Even mentioning that is weird.

As far as the katz nonsense. I dunno what the arena politics really have to do with anything on ice related. Or anything we've discussed here today. And when did maxb say he loved the deal and katz? Who cares who the owner is. As long the oil stay in edm and we have the finances to try and be a contender. That other sh1t is irrelevant in this forum

Relax bro

Switch lines 2 and 3.
- HouseArrest187

They are kind of interchangeable. ES time accounts for about 48 mins a game, so:

Line 1 gets 15
Lines 2 and 3 get 13
line 4 gets 7

Hall-Nuge-Eberle
Jagr-Antropov-Hemsky
MPS-Gagner-Yakupov
Joensuu-Gordon-Jones

It's a speculative thought...
- Morris

as much as this line has scored, its way to soft and they get beat up a tonne, otherwise we would have made the playoffs one of the last two yrs, cuz they r that good.

hall gags and yaks is not big but feisty and can handle it better

that's why we so desperately need a tough LW to play with Nuge and Ebs. most likely penner or Vanek or fail.

jagr refuses LW duties, even tho he's left shot

Oh so lets run him out of town then. When you have this many holes on a team, finding serviceable isn't a bad thing. Plus why shouldn't he get 15 goal/year a guy money. How many Oilers have scored 15 goals or more in the past 3 years. Go back past his injury and the same bone heads where wanting to trade him too because he didn't do something that they wanted.

Yes you are an idiot. Not because you don't think like me but because like most Oilers fans, you haven't had the privilege of watching many ACTUAL HOCKEY PLAYERS play in such a long time, that you know don't know what one is, unless he is named Hall, and even then you want to make him a center.

Good luck to the players on this team. As for the management, ownership and most of the fans, you deserve a losing team just because you don't know how to appreciate the good things. Jones has been one of the moves that actually worked out for this team and dumb asses like you have wanted to skid him since he got here.

Why you jealous because he had some success? He a better hockey player then you? Better hair? Actually can do something with his life.

Yes I'm calling you and fans, more specifically Oilers Fans, like you idiots. Why. Because I'm sick of hearing you rip anything that is good about this team while you drink the kool-aid and fight like crazy to help a billionaire completely rip off the city, because it's good for THE TEAM.

Talk to me in 10 years when Katz has Edmonton by the nuts again, the stars of today are long gone because the got sick of IDIOTS like you in the stands and KLowe has lead Edmonton to the bottom of the standings again.
- Oilnutz

So...you're not in favor of the new arena?