Oiler Cuts Trim Roster
by Derek Zona on Sep 27, 2010 8:34 PM MDT
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PrintTeemu Hartikainen, Johan Motin, Jake Taylor, Brad Moran, and Gregory Stewart were assigned to Oklahoma City and Jared Aulin was released. The Barons roster starts to take shape, but the Oilers' roster is still very crowded, especially this late in camp. Thirty-seven players remain and only twenty-three positions are up for grabs. When it comes down to it, only four positions are available, and for now, it seems like Liam Reddox, Jeff Petry, Devan Dubnyk and Theo Peckham have them well in hand. After the jump, we look at the original Training Camp roster and the players remaining, broken out by their original team assignments.
The A Team
Dustin Penner / Sam Gagner / Ales Hemsky
----- ----------- / Liam Reddox / Zack Stortini
----- ------- / ----- -------/ Ben Ondrus
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Ryan Whitney / Jeff Petry
Jason Strudwick / ------- -----
------- -------- / ------ ---------
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Devan Dubnyk / ----- ------
The B Team
Magnus Paajarvi / Andrew Cogliano / Gilbert Brule
Alexandre Giroux / Ryan O'Marra / Colin McDonald
------ -------- / ---- ----- / ---- ------
Steve MacIntyre / ---- ---------- / ----- ----------
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Theo Peckham / Tom Gilbert
------ -------- / ---- ------
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Jeff Deslauriers / Nikolai Khabibulin / ----- ----
The C Team
Taylor Hall / Shawn Horcoff / Jordan Eberle
Ryan Jones / Colin Fraser / Linus Omark
------- ------- / Chris Vande Velde / --------- -----
----- -------- / ---- --------- / ---- ---------
Ladislav Smid / Taylor Chorney
Jim Vandermeer / Kurtis Foster
Shawn Belle / ----- -----
Martin Gerber / ------- ---
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Hartikainen has played well so far and I dont like the fact that someone like Mcdonald and Omarra are still here and he is getting sent down. Motin got sent back pretty early and this should be an eye opener for him. He must improve his play.
Lot of people are saying that the Oilers still have many players on the roster and it is late in the pre-season. I believe that there will be more cuts soon, some even before the start of the next game. And after that, there should be only a few players left
Sins can be forgiven but conscience is a killer.
I really don’t understand why McDonald is left hanging around. Seem inevitable that he’ll be sent down. Why wait?
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by Neal Livingston on Sep 27, 2010 9:22 PM MDT up reply actions
There are a couple of factors.
1. Teemu is starting the year in the AHL. We knew this from the start of camp.
2. He hasn’t played in the AHL before, so getting him used to it and getting him set up earlier is better (especially if he has issues with the language).
Omarra and Mcdonald have been there and done that. At this point they are bodies in camp to run drills with.
They’ve had enough time to evaluate Teemu and to give him instructions on what he needs to do.
In theory, there is little difference between practice and theory, but in practice there is!
(especially if he has issues with the language).
It’s getting much better, but in quick-moving conversations there are still issues.
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McDonald and O’Marra have been getting the Organizational Push for some time. Not even Tambellini 3.0 could pull the reins on that Lowe mandate.
Also, it would seem Ondrus has made a good impression on someone.
by Downright Fierce on Sep 27, 2010 11:38 PM MDT via mobile reply actions
McDonald’s gotten way, way more of a chance in the Tambellini Era than he did in the Lowe Era.
Anyway, I’m a bit more optimistic. Hartikainen is twenty years old and has a lot of training camps left. It’s his first time in North America. He has no chance of making this team and never did. So send him to the AHL and let him get to know his new teammates. McDonald, meanwhile, is in his mid-twenties and is approaching, as Lowetide might say, his Last Chance Texaco. Keep him up, make exactly sure of what he is and what you have. If you’re going to cut him loose, do so knowing full well that he won’t come back and bite you in the ass.
by Benjamin Massey on Sep 27, 2010 11:41 PM MDT up reply actions
Fair enough, I tend to lump them together mentally. Still, I see O’Marra’s continued presence (going back to the day he was re-signed) is an unfortunate carry-over from Lowe’s time as GM.
Though Ben & dawg are right: neither McD nor O’Marra is eating Harski’s lunch. But I disagree with dawgbone in that their just “bodies to drills with,” I think the Org is genuinely offering these guys a chance to impress. Not that they will…
by Downright Fierce on Sep 28, 2010 8:35 AM MDT up reply actions
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