bustaheims
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EdmontonOilers: #Oilers acquire forward Matt Hendricks from @PredsNHL in exchange for goaltender Devan Dubnyk.
Dubnyk to Nashville for Hendricks. Scrivens to Edmonton for a 3rd.
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That's gotta be one of the worst trades ever. Starting goalie for a 4th line centre?
Dominos? Who starts in Edmonton?
Dominos? Who starts in Edmonton?
ha ha ha ....
Nik the Trik said:
I'll be curious to see what he does behind a NHL defence for a change. His last three SA%'s have been .920, .914, .916. I think he can be at least an average starter.
Nik the Trik said:
Combined with this move I think the reason is they just don't know how to value goalies.
With that said I didn't realize Dubnyk was an UFA at the end of the deal. Their season is over and if they didn't plan on bringing him back for some strange reason they may as well have traded him. I just think it's an awful return. But maybe I should keep my mouth shut for when they inevitably steal Reimer from us.
bustaheims
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CarltonTheBear said:
When you consider Dubnyk's reputation, combined with everything else, it's really not all that bad. The Oilers received an NHL player for a guy who has been awful this season and isn't really seen as a starting goalie to anyone other than the Oilers.
bustaheims said:
That's pretty charitable
. Preds fans are pretty much saying this is addition by subtraction. Hendricks is an average 4th liner at best really and he's on an awful contract. If they traded for the defenceman equivalent of Hendricks then maybe you could convince me they were at least filling some sort of need, but the Oilers have a ton of 4th liners. They're also picking up half of Dubnyk's salary apparently. I'd say they would have been better off just letting the contract expire.
maplesyrup
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So, does this mean the Preds don't feel to good about Rinne coming back this year?... and is Dubnyk now their clear-cut starter?
Dr. Bobby Leafer said:
Absolute best case for Rinne would still probably be something like right after the Olympic break. But yeah nobody really knows. Trotz has also apparently been very unhappy with the goaltending he's received lately so yeah Dubnyk will have every opportunity to be the starter while Rinne is out.
bustaheims
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TSNBobMcKenzie: Sounds like Ben Scrivens has been traded from LA to EDM, 3rd round pick headed back to LA.
Well then.
Well then.
Poor Scrivens, he was probably pretty excited to go into free agency with those LA stats behind him.
So the 2013-14 Edmonton Oilers are now pretty much a combination of the locked out 2012-13 Toronto Marlies and Oklahoma City Barons teams.
