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2023/24 Edmonton Oilers GM23: Oilers VS. Hurricanes – 3P2W – Trade Options for Broberg are Aplenty!

Hey y’all! Welcome back for another season of Edmonton Oilers hockey! I’m BLH and I’ll be giving you the skinny on today’s game!

If you’re new here and are wondering what 3P2W means, well, it stands for Three Players to Watch and seeing I’m as lazy as I am, I figured we’d shorten it to 3P2W.

So with that out of the way, let’s talk a little bit about what’s been going on lately in the Oilogospehere and then get into the player’s I’ve put under the spotlight for today’s matchup!

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Random Pontifications

  • Broberg’s either gone by the end of the week or he’s in Bakersfield. Here are a few names I’d look to keep an eye on as the return is rumored to be a young player spinning his wheels in another organization that makes around the same as Broberg, $863k.
    • Columbus has a number of players that Edmonton could target. Starting with the Russians,
      • Wingers Kirill Marchenko, Yegor Chinyakov, and Dmitri Voronkov would add a scoring element to Edmonton’s roster and there are some reports that at least Chinyakov and Voronkov are unhappy in Ohio.
      • Forward Cole Sillinger can’t seem to gain any traction with the Blue Jackets and to me he’s a bit of a throwback forward but with some skill. He’s physical but can handle the puck is what I’m trying to say.
      • Dman Adam Boqvist’s name has come up but I don’t know if the Oilers would go after him. His body of work has been less than stellar so far.  Plus he makes way too much money for a “hockey trade”.
    • The Islanders have Oliver Wahlstrom doing a whole lot of nothing and they’re in a bit of an injury crisis on their backend too.
    • A swap with the Flyers for Nick Seeler might make some sense. If Edmonton can make it to the post-season they’re going to need shutdown dmen like Seeler.
    • Chicago winger Taylor Raddysh hasn’t been able to find the scoring touch of last season yet. Oilers Now host Bob Stauffer has brought his name up in the past in other rumors.
    • Some others just for the sake that they’re underperforming on the team they currenly play for or their salary makes sense for Edmonton include Alexei Toropchenko (STL), Joe Veleno (DET), Peyton Krebs (BUF), Drew O’Connor (PIT), and Philip Tomasino/ Liam Foudy (NSH).
  • Personally, I’d see what the price is from San Jose to bring Anthony Duclair and Mario Ferraro in. That’d be a combined $6.25M and so if you’re sending Kulak and Broberg, that’s $3.5M. Add in Foegele’s $2.75 and we’re in business. Throw in a high pick and ask Grier to eat some of that salary (he’s already eating some from Burns and Karlsson so I’m not even sure if that’s possible). Now you’ve got a dependable two-way dman for another three years and somebody who can skate with McDavid and score. Holloway will be back soon, call up Phil Kemp or Rafa Lavoie and Bob’s your uncle!

Send him to Bakersfield. He needs to play. Sitting in the press box or playing nine minutes a night when he does play in the NHL isn’t helping him or the organization. He needs to play, and while he might not like the reduced salary in the AHL, he needs to look big picture. He needs to play. But the Oilers also need him for organizational depth. I’d send him to Bakersfield tomorrow and recall Cam Dineen or Tim Gleason. They can sit in the press box while Broberg logs heavy minutes in the AHL. And if the Oilers have an injury on the backend in the next month, they can recall Broberg and slot him in. – Jason Gregor via Oilersnation

  • This is probably the best idea to be honest.

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Three Players to Watch for the Bad Guys

  • #20 Sebastien Aho (8g 14a 22pts) – Aho’s got three goals and three assists in his last five games. He’s clicking along very consistently and as good as Edmonton is playing at the moment, I don’t see this Finn keeping his name off the scoresheet tonight.
  • #88 Martin Necas (7g 11a 18pts) – A goal and four assists in his last half dozen minus one. That’s a point-per-game while Carolina has gone 3-1-1 in that time frame.
  • #37 Andrei Svechnikov (1g 10a 11pts) – One goal all year for the Canes’ superstar Russian (on 39 shots no less). He’s bound to break out and didn’t he have TWO hat-tricks vs. Edmonton last year?… The only regular forward on Carolina with less goals is Jordan Martinook and knowing his luck, he’ll probably get one tonight.

Three Players to Watch for the Good Guys

  • #18 Zach Hyman (12g 11a 23pts) – Hyman’s got four goals and four assists in his last five along with 23 shots. He’s tapped into the ghost of Ryan Smyth as his net-front presence has been remarkable so far this year.
  • #29 Leon Draisaitl (10g 19a 29pts) – Five goals and nine assists in his last ten. A break from Edmonton’s media has probably done Leon a fair bit of good. Let’s see if that translates onto the ice.
  • #74 Stu Skinner – He was humming along before the break and sometimes interrupting that can break a guy’s stride. So we’ll really need to see if Skinner will be able to get back to where he was before.

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Edmonton Oilers Talk: Admitting When You’re Wrong

In yesterday’s post, I talked about a potentially disastrous scenario where the Edmonton Oilers could find themselves in a position where they would need to re-sign Philip Broberg, Dmitri Samorukov, and Evan Bouchard in the same off-season and it was pointed out to me by the famed comments section contributor in the Oilogosphere, Original Pouzar, that the Oilers wouldn’t need to worry about that because all three of those players’ deals will expire in a staggered fashion.

Samorukov’s has already kicked in, so his contract with expire in two seasons, OP believes that Bouchard will start his this season, so he’ll have three more years on his ELC remaining, and the countdown will start on Broberg’s in 2021-22 (maybe) and running out in four years (maybe).

So yeah, I kinda air-balled that one. That said, in my defense, I was simply pointing out that the Oilers could be in a very mucky predicament if their big RFAs all had outstanding seasons and were worthy of getting locked up to long-term deals.

What I really messed up on was the players I used. I should’ve used Caleb Jones and Jesse Puljujarvi, whose contracts are up in two years like Samorukov. We might be adding Ethan Bear to that list too.

As Original Pouzar pointed out in that comments section discussion, all teams have handfuls of RFAs that they need to re-sign, I simply feel like not a lot of clubs have the (potential) quality of players needing to be re-upped at the same time.

It’s an unlikely scenario, but I still believe it shouldn’t be glossed over.

Now getting to someone who might have to admit they were wrong…

What Zanier also said on Oilers Now was that he didn’t think that the offense will translate for Broberg in the NHL.

I don’t know about that.

I feel like Broberg is going to be the stud Edmonton has been looking for on defence for such a long time. He makes mistakes and dumb plays from time to time, but he’s got the hockey IQ to make up for that. I mean, do you remember what Paul Coffey’s nickname was early in his career with the Oilers? “Cough it up’ Coffey… Paul also had a pretty good partner in Edmonton by the name of Charlie Huddy.

Maybe Ethan Bear is this generation’s Huddy? Maybe the Oilers play him with Broberg when the time comes? Maybe a superstar is born? Who knows?

Now, I’m not comparing a legend like Paul Coffey to Philip Broberg, I’m just saying that offensive defenders are prone to mistakes partially because they have the puck a lot and they’re trying to make plays happen. This kind of player desperately needs the right d-partner to maximize potential and success though…

I have seen comparisons to Darnell Nurse and I’m sorry, I can’t see that at all. Broberg makes things happen in the offensive zone, he’s not just a hammer looking for a nail. Now, both players are fast and skate well, but Broberg is a much much better skater and playmaker. Overall, the Swede’s offensive game outshines Nurse’s in my opinion, but Nurse’s defensive contributions are obviously better at the moment.

Bringing it all back full circle, what if Broberg finishes his year in Sweden and joins the Oilers for the latter portion of their season? Will his ELC kick in a year earlier alongside Evan Bouchard’s? Maybe two and three years from now, we’re going to be talking about the Oilers, in the same manner, we are the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Hopefully, because they’ve won a Stanley Cup and not so much because they’re in salary cap hell.

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Edmonton Oilers Talk: The Battle for 7D and a Future RFA Predicament

Yesterday, Edmonton Oilers play-by-play colorman Bob Stauffer put out the following tweet with regards to the club’s potential candidates for its 7th defenceman position,

Now, am I the only one that thinks this “battle” for #7 is being media driven? I mean, ask yourself, if you’re the GM of a club and you have one of your best prospects bubbling under; would you want him winning the press box spot on the club or do you think it would be best of he was earning a spot as the 5th or 6th d-man?

It makes no sense to me why the Oilers under Ken Holland would want Bouchard in Edmonton playing sparingly as opposed to getting big minutes for their AHL affiliate and working on his deficiences at that level.

William Lagesson has pretty much done all he can in the divisions below the NHL and it’s time for him to be given an opportunity. Signing him to that two-year deal also made him available to be selected in the Seattle Kraken expansion draft. Although, I don’t think they’ll take him. I figure there’ll be better options from Edmonton.

Two other points on this,

  • Lagesson is not exempt from waivers anymore whereas Bouchard is.
  • Stauffer is also constantly talking about the Oilers adding another veteran defenceman with experience.

I’m not fully convinced that Holland won’t use Bouchard in a trade either as Edmonton STILL does not have a no.1 defenceman on its team.

Could that come though in the form of Philip Broberg? It might, which brings me to the next topic, what happens if the Oilers graduate Broberg, Bouchard (granted he’s still with the team), and Dmitri Samorukov around the same time?

Could you imagine all three starting the clocks on their ELCs and having them expire in the same off-season? Wouldn’t that be some kind of RFA re-signing Hell akin to what Tampa is going through whilst having Anthony Cirelli, Mikhail Sergachev, and Erik Cernak all out of contract and vulnerable to an offer-sheet and not being able to move a roster player in order to sign them.

We know that offer-sheets aren’t common and with the financial landscape of the league looking as bleak as it is, their even more less likely to occur. Unless… In the next three years, fans are allowed to fill arenas to full capacity resulting in a landslide of revenue for the NHL, its clubs, and its players. The salary cap would sky rocket and irresponsible spending would be back! Hooray (kind of)!

Could the Oilers avoid a massive headache by introducing Broberg this year, Bouchard in 2021-22, and Samorukov the year following?

What’s your time frame look like for these three defenders? Let me know in the comments below!

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2019/20 Edmonton Oilers Thoughts: The Flames Game, Puljujarvi, and Broberg

Now that we’ve had a couple of days to digest some hockey, what have you thought so far? That Edmonton Oilers/Calgary Flames game was fantastic. It was intense but not out of hand and I know for myself, I was concerned that things could get overly violent given how the season series had gone throughout the season. The amount of violence I witnessed… 100% acceptable.

The broadcast was great! I didn’t notice the lack of fans in the crowd and the synthetic “crowd” noise was palpable. I mean, you kind of wish there were folks in the stands because they add so much more to the experience when goals are scored or big hits are laid out.

That Colby Cave tribute hit me like a tonne of bricks, how about you?

Let’s get the Philip Broberg stuff out of the way first, shall we?

Who makes a save like that in his first-ever NHL game? A bloody gamer, that’s who.

I thought he was fantastic given the circumstances. He started off quite tentative but as the game wore on he really settled in. Some of the pros I found in his game was that he wasn’t phased by Calgary’s attempts to intimidate him physically. Matt Tkachuk was on his ass hard from the get-go and the Swede looked like he hardly noticed him at each confrontation. Even Mikael Backlund gave him a cheap shot late in the game that had “Bro” wondering how the mosquitos got in the arena.

The skating that we’ve all been hearing about for a month, on full display. The way he moved around the ice, he looked like a seasoned vet. He was smooth and rarely caught out of position and the times he did get caught out, it was only momentarily. I’m of the belief that his skating is the reason he could be ahead of the curve a bit with regards to other prospects like Evan Bouchard and William Lagesson. The fact of the matter is, you could count on one hand the number of players, not just defenders, I mean everyone, on this Oilers team who can skate as good as or better than Broberg.

What I didn’t like about his game was that he seemed to be out of position in his own end from time to time and since he’s used to transporting the puck himself, he didn’t move the puck very quickly. That’ll all get worked out though. I think he could’ve been more physically assertive in his own end too, but then again, nobody ever complained about Nik Lidstrom’s lack of physicality.

I’ve read some folks criticizing how the young man pinches and rushes with the puck in addition to comparing him to Darnell Nurse. I don’t agree with those armchair scouting assessments though. While both Nurse and Broberg are fantastic skaters, it’s the Swede who has the higher offensive IQ and ceiling in general.

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Nurse has never been an offensive defender. He can skate the puck up the ice when there’s room but he’s really lost in the other team’s zone. Most of the time he sends a blind pass into the slot, holds onto it, and goes around the net or gets checked. This season though he’s added the Eberle button hook to his arsenal, which is good. A lot of the points he gets at the NHL level are due to Klefbom being hurt so he gets time on the 1st PP unit and most of his TOI has been with McDavid.

I’ve said this in the past and I’ll say it again, Nurse is a hammer, not a scalpel. And that’s fine because the Oilers need a hammer or three on their blueline. On the other hand, Broberg has the smarts and the skills to be a scalpel.

Check out these highlights above, you didn’t see Nurse making those kinds of plays when he was that age and you don’t see him making them now. Yes, Broberg will most likely tone down the one-man rushes, but as he gets older and stronger and smarter, he’ll develop into a very dangerous “4th forward” option and that’s largely to do with how well of a skater he is. See, he has the ability to catch the opposing forwards on a backcheck because he skates so well should his play break down.

Some people say John Klingberg as a comparable, others say a more skilled Noah Hanifin. Would Jay Bouwmeester be off base? I reckon he’ll be more of a risk-taker in his early years, Karlsson-like, and then morph into a Bouwmeester-style of defender.

Jesse Puljujarvi

Recent reports out of Finland have him showing a much more mature side. “I’ve grown and I see things a bit differently.” is one of the things Pulju has said recently that have folks in Edmonton feeling optimistic that we could see the big Finn back in Edmonton as soon as next season.

What I’m lead to believe is that he could sign with the Oilers but start the year with Karpat and then come on over once the 20/21 NHL season gets going.

Now, in that scenario, if the roster goes unchanged, there’s possibly one spot on the roster open for him and that’s on the LW. With Zack Kassian, Kailer Yamamoto, Josh Archibald, Alex Chiasson, and Patrick Russell (most likely) occupying all of the spots on the RW, there’s nothing available for Jesse there.

As for the left-wing, only Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and James Neal have a spot locked up there. I’m skeptical of Tyler Ennis as well as Andreas Athanasiou. I’m not sure they’ll both be brought back for 20/21. If I had to guess, I’d think Ennis is much more likely to return than AA if the Greek Streak can’t get his mojo back for this playoff run.

I reckon Holland could get a decent draft pick in return for Athanasiou and since Edmonton only has to qualify Puljujarvi, re-signing him and Ennis could cost them under $2M. Then you’d have RNH, Ennis, Pulju (who’s much more suited for Edmonton’s 3rd line than Athanasiou in my opinion), Neal, and Nygard.

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The Flames Game

My man, Patrick Russell with 2pts in 33 seconds (I think)! Too bad it wasn’t an official game as The Great Dane is still waiting for his first proper NHL goal. Hopefully, this is just the start of many more.

I thought the Oilers were dominant from the drop of the puck and really toyed with the Flames until the goalie switch. After that, I found the Flames started to pick up the pace and really hold Edmonton’s zone a lot longer. Luckily for the Oilers, both their goalies were on the ball, which is something that could be said for Calgary’s netminders.

What I hope they’ll try to do is stay out of the penalty box. Chicago, as inferior as they may look on paper, do have some players who can put the puck in the net at will. I also hope to see their intensity level increase.

Ethan Bear… Wow! Brian Lawton was saying yesterday on Oilers Now that he thinks out of Evan Bouchard, Philip Broberg, and the young defender of Cree descent, that Bear would be the most likely to be a no.1 defenseman in the NHL. I felt that he was Edmonton’s best defender along with Adam Larsson, who now healthy, is an uncaged beast.

As for the forwards, Connor McDavid was obviously the best, but I thought near every other forward had at least one good highlight throughout the evening. Be that a hit, a scoring chance, or some nifty puckhandling, even Gaetan Haas… I hope his ankles are okay!

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2019/20 Edmonton Oilers: Spector and Stauffer on Philip Broberg Plus More!

Yesterday, the best player in the NHL, Leon Draisaitl, was named as one of the three Hart Trophy finalists along with the Rangers’ Artemi Panarin and Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon. Great news but expected news nonetheless.

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Now we can expect to hear the analytics community really ramp things up in support of Artemi Panarin as this year’s winner. The basis of their argument to really simplify it is that the best player in the NHL should not only be great offensively but defensively as well and to that, I ask that community, how many minutes did Panarin play on the penalty kill this year? Because that is really a defining factor in determining who is simply a one-way player and who is considered a two-way one.

Here’s the answer,

5:03 (source)

How many did Leon Draisaitl play? 69:04…

Geez, it doesn’t look like Artemi’s coach trusted him enough on the defensive side of the game to put him in the most defensively challenging scenarios. Well, maybe it was because he was bloody trash on the PK as indicated by his -7.92 GA/60 (rel) and -8 xGA/60 (rel) during that time…

Sure, Leon might be a minus player at all strengths but if I recall correctly, isn’t he +5 at 5×5? My math could be off mind you.

Look, here’s the deal. Since 2005 only three players have won the Hart without having

  • A 10+ difference in goals
  • A 10+ difference in assists
  • A 10+ difference in total points

between the leader and the player in second place in these categories.

Those three players were Taylor Hall (2018), Corey Perry (2011), and Sidney Crosby (2007)

So Leon has a 15 point lead on Panarin and a 17 point lead on MacKinnon, a 16 goal lead on Panarin and a 13 goal lead on MacKinnon, and only a 4 assist lead on Panarin and a 9 assist lead on MacKinnon.

**Mini Rant Alert**

But some are happy to simply say Draisaitl’s a -7 and throw the rest of the context out. I mean, for Pete’s sake, Panarin needed a GD pandemic to take place for the Rangers to even be in a potential playoff spot and for him to be considered for the trophy. It’s not like Shesterkin didn’t come in and save their butts from being a lottery team… Similar to when the Devils’ backup goalie, Keith Kincaid I think his name is, did his best Marty Brodeur impression and got NJ into the playoffs (barely) and Hall winning the Hart as a result even though McDavid had ten more points than him.

Then there are guys like Bruins beat writer Joe Haggerty, who know +/- is a BS stat to use in this argument, but still use it! It’s dumb and everybody knows it unless they need to use it to support their side of an already failed argument…

If Leon doesn’t win it and Panarin does, it won’t be because the German had a dash seven on his stat line… Now, if MacKinnon wins it, I won’t be too hard done by there.

**Fin**

Spector and Stauffer on Broberg

Yesterday morning Sportsnet’s Mark Spector and host of Oilers Now, Bob Stauffer, went over how good Philip Broberg has looked at camp and why Spector penned an article detailing how he thought Broberg has passed Evan Bouchard on the Oilers depth chart.

If you want to listen to it, I’ll put up the audio at the very bottom of the page.

MS: a  lot of fans who are fans of Evan Bouchard thought it was crazy to say that Broberg, after a week of camp, has passed him (Bouchard) by on the Oilers depth chart. I guess we should define depth chart, are we talking about going into these playoffs? Are we talking about the big list behind Ken Holland’s desk in his office? But I’ll tell you one thing, right now, at this camp, for these playoffs, Philip Broberg is closer to playing in an NHL game, in my opinion than is Evan Bouchard.

Evan Bouchard skated this morning and they put him in the ‘B’ group with Tyler Benson and Marody and Broberg is getting time on the ice with Klefbom. I’m not saying he’s taking Larsson’s job, that’s not what I’m saying, but he is in a position to be a player here in these playoffs. He’s still no. 8, let’s say the 8th guy but in my opinion, he’s passed Bouchard and he’s passed Lagesson.

BS: And you know his teammates know it. They’re watching what’s going on because what’s the old saying Spec? Who are always the first to know?

MS: The players know, right? When they were all hootin’ and hollerin’ the other day when he made that play, they were watching and they know. The players know, they know, and you can’t fool the players. They’re very impressed with what this kid’s doing.

BS: Mark, this might sound stupid to some of the listeners but some defensemen aren’t actually that fast in terms of when they skate forward. They’re so good skating backward and they’ve got great lateral movement and that sort of thing but they’re not always super explosive at skating forward. This guy EXPLODES on you and it’s the ranginess.

I think Scott Wheeler from the Athletic compared Broberg to John Klingberg, I don’t see that because Klingberg is really an elite offensive defenseman that can really walk the line. When I think of Broberg I think more of an upgraded Noah Hanifin. Like Hanifin can really skate too but hasn’t reached the offensive potential some people thought when he was a top-5 pick. Maybe there’s a chance that could happen with Broberg?

MS: That’s what we don’t know. Young players never ascend in a straight line, right Bob? It’s a bit of a mountainous graph as a player gets better, takes a step back, gets better. So what do we know about Broberg? Well, we saw him at the Hlinka two years ago, his stride stood right out. I mean of all the guys at that tournament, there’s one guy I left that tournament thinking, “Whoa man! Who’s number four for Sweden? Can number four ever skate?!” and you watch him out here and he just has a superior superior stride. He’s an NHL skater right now.

So for a defenseman, defensemen that can skate are defensemen that are going to play a long time and this kid can really skate. Where will the offense go, Bob? Well, we saw him blitz around Russell on that rush you talked about, uh, how’s his shot going to be? I haven’t really had a chance to see him unload much. We know Bouchard has an excellent shot from the right point. We’ll see all that stuff, the kid’s 19! You think of Leon Draisaitl when he was 19 and how he looks today. So I don’t know where he’s going to go, I just know that what I see so far has NHL defenseman written all over it.

BS: Well, it’s impacted how key people think based on the quotes. I mean we ran Dave Tippett’s stuff and he’s like, “We could play him at left defense, we could play him at right defense, we could put him at left-wing, we could put him at right-wing, we could put him at center.” it’s like just the way he was talking, that’s the head coach talking and he’s a guy that’s not overly effusive in his praise at times for young players, right? But that’s how good Broberg has been.

He’s a transporter and Bouchard is a transitioner and ya know what? There’s room for both long-term in the top-four and if these guys both, I’m not even saying these guys are going to be top-two, I’m just saying if you have four legitimate top-four defensemen, you can live with that. And the Oilers have got Ethan Bear, who’s looked very good, Mark. They got Klefbom and they’ve got Nurse. Those guys are still signed long-term. So you add these two guys into the mix, not including Larsson because they’re going to have to re-up him here after another year, but they’ve got the makings of a pretty good defense, Mark.

BLH’s Comments: A player is ready when a player is ready. Ask any person in professional hockey. he could be 18-years-old or he could be 27. In a league where skating is of the utmost importance, Broberg already shines. My concern is that if he’s going to be screaming down the wing and cutting to the middle, how long until he gets his bell rung or something else happens to him?

By 2020/21, the Oilers defense could look like this,

Klefbom/Larsson
Nurse/Bear
Broberg/Bouchard
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