dekedangle_rpfanon | #6 - Shea Weber and Erik Johnson feel the Lovejoy

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escape from the city to follow the sun by lostlenore

Crack. I enjoyed this, especially who McDavid is shipped with.

Sorry Oilers nonny, this is probably not for you.

Yeah it's kind of mean for Oilers fans, but I really enjoyed it even though I don't know anything about One Direction. Well-written crack is underdone in this fandom.

I liked it a lot! The tone was perfect and it was cute and well-written.

The person in the comments who wants to post it to reddit, though, needs to stop.

I'm starting to feel kneejerk annoyance whenever a big deal is made about the three North American guys having blighted careers, but nothing is mentioned about Yak (or Baby Draisatl). If they just mentioned the three first overalls, I could understand it. But if they choose three and it's Ebs, Hall & Nuge, I assume those are the only three Oilers whose names they know.

That, or foreign players just don't count in these things.

Yak or Draisatl-- and Justin Schultz-- are probably the ones most indicative, anyways, though time will tell. The Oilers' problem isn't developing their #1 picks, it's everything else, including their drafting outside the first round. It's why it'll take a lot longer for them to contend then it will Buffalo.

I was looking up all their first-rounders, and there was that Swedish guy they traded to the Blues for Perron. The Blues ended up putting him on waivers in December, and I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts. Was he a bad draft choice, poorly developed or just needs a little more time?

I have't exactly followed, but I think he is the victim of expectations. Looking at his fancystats he looks fine (as in can play in the NHL), except he has super low PDO this + last season, so points are low. But I think he was big, had a good world juniors, people convinced themselves he would be the next great powerforward, and when he wasn't they had problem adjusting expectations down. Like he isn't and won't be a top line winger, but he is probably a serviceable 3ed/4th liner.

I sort of give Draisatl a pass because he hasn't really played a full season (or has he? my tumblr has abandoned the baby!Oilers. I know nothing about them anymore), but there is no excuse for ignoring Yak.

he hasn't, I don't think, they just handled him incredibly poorly when he was up.

Not sending him to World Juniors seemed really odd to me, unless he told them he didn't want to go.

na

From all the discussion about it, it almost seemed like he didn't want to go and they kept him up/sent him down so that he didn't have to go? Which struck me as very strange.

ayrt (and I was also da for that first reply, forgot to include that)

That at least makes some sense even if it's not something every player does. Germany's not very good so I can get not wanting to go and get blown out every game.

They got a huge amount of criticism for not sending him to world juniors because they supposedly needed him so badly, and then sending him back to his junior team once it was too late for him to play in the WJC. It was at that point there were some claims he didn't want to go, but I don't think they're very credible. I'm sure he wanted to stay in the NHL, but given the choice between the Kelowna Rockets (which he'd been traded to and never played on) and Team Germany, somehow I think he would have been fine with going to the WJC.

ayrt

That's what I remember. But am I misremembering the Capitals getting similar criticism for calling someone up from the AHL and then scratching him, when his national team wanted him too?

I hope my team doesn't have to deal with those kind of shenanigans next season, but it's pretty likely we will. Yay.

NA

Yeah, that was Burakovsky. I guess it's just business, but I didn't think it was handled very well.

http://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2014/12/19/after-being-kept-out-of-wjc-andre-burakovsky-sent-to-hershey-by-caps/
The Swedish hockey fed was pissed. http://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2014/12/19/angry-swedish-hockey-federation-claims-andre-burakovsky-demotion-available-for-wjc/

But here's a cute older Burra interview. Awwww. http://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2013/07/13/andre-burakovsky-on-tom-wilson-he-learned-me-a-lot-of-things-like-eating-peanut-butter/

I'm trying to remember who was the other Caps guy/prospect that the mgmt kept calling up and sending down so as to not to tip them over X number of appearances and trigger an ELC/payout/etc - I forget the exact details. Or was the Burakovsky too? Help me out, Caps nonnies.

DA

Not terribly familiar with the Caps, but I think it was a defenseman. Maybe Orlov?

da

Yeah, that was Orlov last season.

sa

To add some additional context, Orlov's contract specified that he had to play a certain number or NHL games or he could go back to the KHL. The Caps kept calling him up and sending him down because GMGM didn't want to lose his rights and Oates didn't want to play him.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capitals-insider/wp/2013/11/26/why-the-capitals-keep-recalling-but-dont-play-dmitry-orlov/

In other news, trying to find that article led me to the RMNB article on why Oates needed to go, and it's pretty funny that Trotz did some of the same things on the list. I mean, Trotz >>>>>>>> Oates and it's not even close. It's just funny.

Trotz, as much of an improvement as he is over complete insanity, is definitely not a perfect coach. I have been enjoying the confused swing of opinions regarding the benchings, though.

ayrt

Of course he's not perfect. It seems like a lot of coach's share some of his particular quirks, though, like being head over heels for veteran grittership. The things both he and Oates did include playing goalies back-to-back (a tired Holtby is still better than Peters), playing Beags with Ovi (sigh), and assigning Nate Schmidt to Hershey (he'll be with the Caps next year). There was something else too. I know everyone hated Oates changing the lines all the time but it wasn't on the list of reasons he should be fired.

Playing Beagle on the top line is classic Trotz, he likes pairing more skilled players with grit players to try to shore up the line defensively, but with him you know he has some sort of logic (as it is) instead of throwing darts at a roster.

ayrt

At least he didn't play Beagle over Backstrom as 1C. For months. Yeah, that happened under Oates. I don't think Beagle ever belongs on the top line, but Trotz was not as bad as Oates, even when it came to "Beagle time all the time." That said, Wardo was more productive when he was moved into the top 6.

Anon who asked

Right! I couldn't remember good enough search terms to bring it up, and I'd forgotten about the KHL provision. Bad situation.

Trotz isn't perfect, but such an improvement, both in coaching and the fact that the team seems to have a more positive culture this year. Bailamos!

Definitely not for me - I laughed at the summary and scrolled on by

Oilers nonnie

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