{"id":819405,"date":"2018-06-07T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=819405"},"modified":"2018-06-07T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:00:40","slug":"a-different-kind-of-ingredient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-different-kind-of-ingredient\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind Of Ingredient"},"content":{"rendered":"
Just a quick post this afternoon, but I wanted to get something up touching on Bob Stauffer’s tweet from yesterday. There’s a lot of good info in this brief message from the Oilers’ top insider.<\/p>\n[protected-iframe id=”5f5e0695687e390360daf68dbd227cd8-142507471-51660995″ info=”twsrc%5Etfw” class=”twitter-tweet”]\n
Edmonton’s shouldn’t be trading the tenth overall pick for help. This should<\/em>\u00a0be the last time during the McDavid era that Edmonton gets to add a piece to the cluster in this part of the draft. Take a player and enjoy the results of it a few years down the line. It’ll be well worth it.<\/p>\n I’m also all about not diving into the free agent pool and chasing the big fish. Yeah, James Neal would be the sexy name to add, but odds are he’s going to be overpaid and he’s going to disappoint. Edmonton got the biggest fish in 2016 (Milan Lucic) and many are chasing him out of town two seasons later.<\/p>\n Big game hunting in free agency is a losing game.<\/p>\n Which Brings Me To…..<\/strong><\/p>\n The most interesting part of Stauffer’s tweet, by far, which touches on the club moving out a contract with term for a different “ingredient”.<\/p>\n I find this interesting for a number of different reasons. Are the Oilers moving away from the big and heavy brand Chiarelli wanted when he first arrived? If that’s the case, perhaps Milan Lucic’s stint in Edmonton will be a short one and he could be on the way out.<\/p>\n People scoff at the idea, but I can tell you with certainty that NHL clubs do have interest in Lucic still and believe that he will rebound. He does have trade value, and clubs like Vancouver and Montreal still covet him as an asset.<\/p>\n