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Three Defencemen
My personal belief is that Joni Pitkanen will not play another game in an Oilers uniform. I think Lowe looked at his core, young defencemen (Gilbert, Grebeshkov, Pitkanen), and decided that Gilbert & Grebeshkov would be on the team moving forwar, whereas Pitkanen would not. I fully expect a...
Prendergast's Comments
Some interesting comments from Kevin Prendergast in the Sun today."I think Denis wanted to do a one-year deal and see how it goes," said Oilers vice-president of hockey operations Kevin Prendergast, who is currently in Kazan, Russia scouting the Under-18 world hockey championship."If he has a good...
Joni Pitkanen- 2002
Stumbled across this article (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/draft02/2002-06-24-usat-draftline.htm) while looking into the Oilers selection of Robin Kovar (subsequently voided) in 2002. It says, in part:The Oilers had tried aggressively to move up in the draft Saturday. Before Tampa Bay took...
Pitkanen Injured
According to an article in the Vancouver Sun, Joni Pitkanen has suffered a mild knee injury and will not play in the World Championships.From the article:"I got a message from MacT (Oilers head coach Craig MacTavish) but I haven't talked to Joni yet. MacT doesn't think it's serious," said Oilers...
Trades and Signings
Robin Brownlee has an interesting piece over at Metro News today about the Ryan Smyth trade. The bottom of the article includes two items which have been bandied about the Oilogosphere for the last little while:Curtis Glencross was a nice fit on the fourth line after coming from Columbus, but if he...
Joni Pitkanen Update #328
The Fourth Period is reporting that negotiations are set to begin with Joni Pitkanen on a long-term contract. From the story:The Oilers would like to give Pitkanen locked up to a long-term agreement, in and around the five-year range, which could see the Finnish defenseman earn around $4 million to...
Offensive Defensemen
Craig MacTavish is a good coach. I firmly believe that he's in the upper echelon of NHL coaches, and that he has put together some pretty remarkable seasons with some fairly dysfunctional teams.Case in point: offensive defensemen. MacTavish has been criticized in the past for playing a stifling,...
The Case for Another Defenseman
I've been practicing cart-before-the-horse style thinking at this blog lately. My "UFA Option" pieces are posted with the assumption that the Oilers have two or three significant areas of need, which I would categorize like this:1) Veteran defenseman2) Top-six forward3) Checking line centrewith the...
Visnovsky to Edmonton
That fellow in dark is the newest member of the Edmonton Oilers, Lubomir Visnovsky. He has been acquired in exchange for Jarret Stoll and Matt Greene, proving that in a salary cap world, the extras that you never dreamed would be thrown together can be exchanged for a relatively high-end player....
Assuming Pitkanen Stays...
Let’s assume, for a moment, that Kevin Lowe is a big believer in Joni Pitkanen as a hockey player. Let’s further assume that he is on the 2008-09 squad in ink. What does our team look like, player-wise and salary-wise?Here’s the defense (note that Visnovsky is actually a right-side defenseman):LD:...
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