The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired LHP Tarik Skubal last night, and the world of baseball reached madness shortly afterward. Los Angeles won the past two World Series and is a strong bet to win a third this fall.
This is what you want your team to do, every season. The Dodgers have a fantastic draft and development model, and the team has enormous piles of money, but the key is willingness to use all options to make the team better. That’s it, that’s all.
The Oilers could be that, but over the last dozen years have chosen to mortgage the future at every turn. The team now sits in a difficult spot. There’s every chance peak McDavid era happened in 2024. I can’t see the 2030’s being a successful decade if the current plan (hatched by Peter Chiarelli, tweaked by Ken Holland and now entering the Stan Bowman ‘caulking the leaks’ period) continues.
Thing is, the team is trapped. You can’t start using the No. 24 overall draft pick to build back the prospect pool, Edmonton can’t go fast enough to get there early in development. The 2027 first-round pick isn’t going to help until 2030, at the earliest possible marker.
So, what to do? I think Bowman has it mostly right. Keep McDavid, Draisaitl and Bouchard, slowly move Savoie past the Nuge, hope like hell Ike Howard can supplant Zach Hyman when the time comes, and build the things you can through drafts, free-agent signings of college and European players, and hope to get lucky and find another (Miro) Satan late in a draft.
I will quibble over some of the draft picks. Edmonton had a high pick this year and turned it into what looks like a sure-fire NHL checking center. That has value. However, when you don’t have a future 20-goal man in the system (after Ike Howard graduates), it makes things tough. Not impossible, Bowman’s deal for Vasily Podkolzin showed us there are ways to find useful skill players. But tough. Very tough.
The other way for Bowman to find a difference maker? Wait in the weeds for a great option to reveal itself in the days before training camp. Someone out there wants to trade a good player, someone on the free-agent wire is getting antsy. Bowman is waitng now, sitting on his money mountain and keeping his powder dry.
I think it’s the play here. The Dodgers have it right. Get good players, keep good players. You’re going to make mistakes (Yordan Alvarez is the best hitter in the game and was once a Dodger) but winning championships is how we keep score.
Why Oilers winger Max Jones could finally seize an NHL role this season
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7484364/2026/08/02/oilers-max-jones-winger-babcock-roster/
I think we have very different conceptions of who the real Mike Babcock is. One of us is going to be wrong.
I believe Mike Babcock believes in mistake-free systematically-driven two-way compete.
If one looks at a player through the lens of “mistake-free systematically-driven two-way compete”…Max Jones, I think not.
I believe Babcock requires hard work and execution of the system – I’m sure he’s smart enough to know the mistakes will happen, and to allow for that, if they are in the name of attempting to execute the system and hard work and aren’t being repeated, he’ll have room for normal game mistakes.
That’s a very convincing argument that Jones should be 3LW coming out of camp.
I could like that comment if you changed handle to “wormtongue”
I agree and enjoy reading your thinking on roster construction and building a winner. I haven’t come across anyone better. Thank you
So, what to do? I think Bowman has it mostly right. Keep McDavid, Draisaitl and Bouchard, slowly move Savoie past the Nuge, hope like hell Ike Howard can supplant Zach Hyman when the time comes, and build the things you can through drafts, free-agent signings of college and European players, and hope to get lucky and find another (Miro) Satan late in a draft.
Bill Daly on the Sick Podcast a couple of days ago.
Mentioned the cap, as much as its risen, is still below where it should be vis-a-vis the agreement – they are still catching up from the flat cap ear. Cap is going to continue going up for a while with this and their projected revenue.
LOT on expansion to Texas – could be a team in play for 2029/30. Both Houston and Austin are possibilities.
Biggest issue with expansion to Quebec City is no viable owner. Have not identified an owner willing to pay the expansion fee nor run the team. NHL has been exploring QC for 10 years (back to when Vegas got in).
Expansion to Europe is not out of the question down the road – lots of obstacles. Mid-week afternoon games are marketed to Europe.
I had read some news article that stated McDavid’s wife was opening a new business in Austin, Tx, next year I believe.
Quite the growing city from what I’ve read.
Heard Austin doesn’t have the same audience for hockey as Houston, thanks to the Aeros.
— getting old sucks. But it beats the alternative
— The oilers aren’t getting younger. They are still capable of doing great things just not as often.
— For anyone who has seen a loved one age : it’s just an inevitable passage of time.
— Team sport isn’t any different: some days they will great and maybe they can rally for a glory’s last shot.
— But we all know what’s coming : so enjoy it while it’s still here
As a fan (and as a man with aging friends, parent, self) yes, absolutely: enjoy!
As a GM: aging (declining) talent is the death of the team. I believe the only permissible sentiment for a GM is the thrill of winning, tempered by winning over time, not just now.
That said, how to measure and evaluate how a player contributes to winning, now and over time? It’s not just GF/GA. I’m fixated on “what happened after Nov 26, 2025?” The team had been playing very poorly. Then, they for the next month, until the Xmas break, they played very well. The only change I can see was the return of RNH from injury. My question: Was RNH a factor in that change? If yes, what did he bring? And, is he still capable of bringing this unknown quality as he ages?
“enjoy it while it lasts” is an opinion LT has always shared and for myself, it changed my love of hockey.
I’m competitive, everyone plays to win but watching these stars shine for the past decade has been incredible.
Even without the final prize, Oilers fan have been ridiculously spoiled watching McDavid and Draisaitl season after season.
Like Lennon/McCartney, a historic duo.
As usual, the site draws the entirely wrong inference from the travesty that is MLB without a hard salary cap.
The LA Dodgers are destroying competitive balance to the point where the game has really no relevance as competitive experience.
Contrast that reality with what the NFL and NHL offer – virtually every game is competitively contested, because a hard salary cap inescapably ensure competitive balance.
The faliures of the OIlers over the McDavid era were the consequence of managerial incompetence especially Chiarelli, but compounded by Holland and Bowman.
Still they shoudl have won 3 Stanley Cups but for Skinner and Nurse.
The issue for the Oilers was not failing to keep draft choices but rather the garbage that they were used for. And the failure to find quality netminding.
I though the issue now is Howard and Savoie – Skinner and and Nurse are both gone!
Both can be true at the same time.
Time is running out on new NHLers passing the old guard, you can’t do that with two years of McDavid left.
you’re hoping Howard and Savoie are the next coming, I see another Yamamoto.
Savoie has trended ahead of Yamamoto at every level, has a better shot, is a better 2-way player as a rookie than Yamo ever was and killed more penalties as a rookie than Yamo ever did. He’s a much stalkier build so the same injuries from tenacious play are probably not as likely.
You have no idea.
What we know is Yamamoto scored 41 points and was zoomed by Draisaitl.
Savoie scored 37 points playing with McDavid.
Yamo played on a poorer Oilers club.
Savoie may be better, he might not.
Bowman is fixing the problems fast. Sure Frederic and Jarry were disappointing but not wrong headed. Cap also fixed, finally, value contracts signed. It’s not a video game, they can only take what’s available and makes sense, and that won’t always be perfect, no team is
The Dodgers are a model franchise in any sport. If we can’t agree with that fact, then the discussion becomes difficult. LAD have it all, but the Oilers could have it all, too. That’s an uncomfortable, but true, fact.
The Dodgers are indeed the model franchise in any sport. They pull out all the stops trying to win every single season, and use every resource available to them. My issue is with the system that sees it be possible for one Dodgers player to have a higher salary than a half a dozen teams total roster’s salary.
I disagree. The Oilers “failure” in the 2024 Stanley Cup Final was Bobrovsky.
Game 1, 32 shots by the Oilers, zero goals.
Game 3, 35 shots by the Oilers, 3 goals, but only 1 goal on the first 29 shots.
Game 7, 1 goal.
The Oilers 2025 “failure” was significant injuries to Hyman, Draisaitl, McDavid and Ekholm. Sure Florida had some injuries, but not nearly as impactful, compared to Edmonton.
They were tied 2-2 in the series and then the bottom fell out, with only 2 goals over the last 2 games.
Perhaps a veteran coach could have made a difference, but unlikely. The Oilers may not reach the Cup Final again, but I still like their chances. Florida won in 2025 with a 35 year old goaltender and 36 year old forward leading the way.
Despite some key aging players, the Edmonton Oilers are still a top 10 team in the NHL and that what you need to be (with healthy stars) to be a Stanley Cup contender.
With McDavid this team will still be in the mix for at least the next 8 seasons.
With Connor-Leon-Bouchard we still have 6 good chances at the Cup. Now that Bowman has finally addressed the goaltending we should win our division and have home ice first 2 rounds. You always have a real fighters chance with goaltending and 3 superstars.
You’re ignoring aging curves.
The Joe Thornton Sharks were loaded with stars but Father Time intervened on the road to the cup.
If the oilers finally reduce Connor-Leon on ice time time a couple minutes a game including any PK time then there’s no reason why they can’t pull a Overchin or Crosby. If they can stay away from major injuries I think Leon-Connor can play 8 more quality years. The days of chain smoking guzzling beers while doing rails is no longer vogue and certain players have longer careers because of health-fitness-happy marriage.
Ah the good old days…..
Bob was good, but to me they played right into his strengths. Leading up to both runs I was commenting that they were vulnerable because they were not strong enough 5v5, and the PP does not produce on demand. It seems to sputter when they are under pressure, grip the sticks too tight and over think is my view
It started by eye for me, and I looked into the stats to back up what I saw, we all debated, many didn’t think offense was a problem. I didn’t like that they were focused so much on the boards in the O zone, and didn’t (and don’t to this point) attack the net enough and or do what you have to do in some games – traffic, screens etc. They didn’t set up enough shots that were more likely to beat Bob, or get him moving enough
They relied too much on hero plays, and those aren’t always going to be there. I think a better coach might have got them all the way, maybe the injuries were too much. But they didn’t play that well as a group either. Knob also didn’t seem to have a counter (or one that worked) for the panthers
I hope we see a change that sees them willing to play basic hockey when it’s warranted, be patient, and trust the system.
They never seemed to of had the killer instinct. Kane tried his best to upset the apple wagon then K.K buried him in the line-up when we needed someone to get some shit on their work boots.
Kane kept highstickin the opposition in their face, game after game – Kane took himself out of the series.
I didn’t see Maurice bench Bennett or Tkachuk for taking penalties? One team has 2 Cups the other is the San Jose Sharks.
It wasn’t Bob. It was that they played like crap.
Bob, 100%, without any objective doubt, stole game 1 2024 – the Oilers dominated that game – that’s as “goalie steal” as they come.
“Competitive balance” is stupid, anti-sport BS.
The salary cap is TV show garbage that creates beige teams and a beige product.
The MLB is the only North American sports league that actually works as a sport. The NFL is a mass-marketed television show that might as well be scripted. All the others are watered down versions of that.
With the same system as MLB, the Oilers would be working on multiple cups as a dynasty worthy of history and inspiring better challengers and a better game.
Instead – slop. Expansion degrades the talent pool and you gift new teams cup winners. It is sickening.
I thought every NHL game was contested due to game management?
Nobody outside MLB can be the Dodgers because of the salary cap. That’s actually something Bettman has gotten right. I think MLB needs a cap, and will cost themselves a full 2027 season only to find out the players will never accept one anyway.
The Dodgers are perennial contenders because they can spend infinite amounts and pluck every good available free agent with no downside (except to the owners cheque book).
The Dodgers rented Skubal. Some players re-sign but not all. If there were a salary cap, but Dodgers would figure that out, too. I think LAD expose every other mlb team for what they are. Cheap, shortsighted and honestly happy in their place. Awful for fans of (say) the Pittsburgh Pirates.
How about this: the Dodgers are successful because MLB owners and management aren’t willing to do what takes to make the league more competitive?
I watched the NHL make changes so that Pollock and his Habs couldn’t keep doing what was working for them, at the expense of the rest of the league.
I say, don’t begrudge the Dodgers their success; find ways to level the field.
Don’t level the field.
You should have to earn what the Dodgers and about 10 other teams have.
The Pirates should lose 100 games a year acting the way they do and no one should save them.
Parity is the enemy, not the goal.
It depends on whether the org is willing to deal anyone but their top 3. Nuge should be on his way to another team, so should Hyman. Bowman has shown he will do things like that, but the clock is ticking on the two mentioned
It’s not that I don’t like them, but that’s how you replenish. The team must come first if they are trying to win a championship. Zito openly tried to trade his captain a couple of summers ago
Agreed on RNH and Hyman. Especially RNH.
If they start to play him further down the lineup (which I doubt Babcock actually does) his value is going to quickly decline in the trade market. This is also why it’s important to have a coach and GM aligned so you can get ahead of deployment issues.
Nuge has a full NMC for the next 3 seasons.
Hyman now has an 8 team trade list for the final 2 years of his contract.
Trade clauses don’t stop deals if your initials aren’t KH
They do tend to limit the return since the player is in total control his destination.
I liked the return for ntc Nurse who was supposedly untradeable without 50% retention. Although now that he is no longer an Oiler he is top 3 for Norris now…
Nuge to Calgary would probably turn him magically into a top 4 center in the league
Rookie NHL season, 2nd year of ELC – 18 goals and 38 points with only 1/3 of season in top 6 a no PK1 time, PK1, responsible 2-ways, top 10 draft pedigree – your definition has that player two tiers above blue chip in any other org. You list all these great up and coming players in other orgs, half of which are older and much worse than Savoie.
87 NHL games played in 5 years after the draft certainly doesn’t scream blue chip to me.
Which players with other orgs are you referring to?
Be specific.
Your use of the word over the years……. every list of 10 great rising players of every team over the years.
So zero to back up that accusation.
Seriously? You get proven wrong (Factually) with consistency and ALWAYS disappear and never answer for your bullshit.
This includes your favourite pasttime, posting lists of futures for teams that are going to have the catapult over the the Oilers – every time I google a few I’ve never heard of and its because they are 23 year old no-names – I can’t name them as they are nobody’s – the Brogan Rafferty’s of the hockey world.
We have a very recent example of this.
The Ducks deemed Mason McTavish excess to their team needs and moved him to St. Louis for the #15 and #28 picks in the 2026 draft.
McTavish is a perfect fit as 2C on the Blues but not on the Ducks roster.
Anaheim originally had no first round picks but were able to come away with OHL scoring champion Nikita Klepov who had committed to NCAA Michigan State but the Ducks, deeming him close to NHL ready, convinced him to sign an ELC and he is expected to compete for an NHL job next season.
For their troubles, the Ducks also got Djurgarden Jr. leading scorer Mattias Nordmark to add to their prospect pool.
Do the Oilers have a Mason McTavish?
Huh?
Nuge and Hyman are the examples for the Oilers, age isn’t the point
Of course age is a huge factor.
Pretty sure St. Louis wouldn’t have given up two first round picks for Nuge.
That’s not the point you work with what you have. St. Louis and Anaheim don’t have McDavid Drai and Bouch
Klepov looks like a great pick. I think that trade should work out for Anaheim.
The Ducks traded McTavish because they couldn’t afford to sign him for this season.
That is a team that is supposed to be on the upswing, looking to take the next step to true contender status, parlaying on the momentum from last season. Verbeek’s current year cap structuring and his “hard-ball negotiations’ have effed him.
The aggregate of the Duck’s off-season has many predicting a step back and potential playoff miss.
Yet one cites a team movie a rising top 6 player for future when they are looking to contend as a master stroke.
Nonsense.
McTavish was re-signed over a year ago to a 6 year contract.
You should have noticed he was used sparingly in the playoffs and was a healthy scratch at times and often played as a bottom 6 winger.
He was traded for TWO first round picks, one of which was the OHL scoring champion while the other is a promising prospect playing in the SHL.
The Ducks currently have their 2C spot covered by Mikael Granlund while 6’6” 203, 10th overall pick C Roger McQueen who is expected to make the team out of camp arrives.
Who are the “many” expecting them to take step back?
Be specific…with “many” names.
Your strategy is to trade the only player who’s unwavering allegiance & Loyalty to the Edmonton Oilers through 10 years of horeshit is to trade him and Hyman…..
lol, ok.
GM Bownan has shown he can make incremental deals with the Chicago Blackhawks and San Jose Sharks.
The person you’re looking for who makes actual trades and deals are Zito & McCrimmon.
“unwavering allegiance & Loyalty”
I said I like the players, but sentimentality does not align with icing the best team now and moving forward. I can’t think of another sport where that is even considered or at least much. Trading players while they still have value because of rep but are in or near decline is how you keep it going. The better teams don’t draft high enough with their own picks to replenish as they go
i don’t agree with trading Nuge. Gave us a discount because he wanted to be here. Wants to retire an Oiler. Isnt a drag on the cap like nurse was. I’d rather not be like Vegas when it comes to dealing with loyal players like Nuge. What would we get for him? A mid 1st and a B prospect?
I think it’s ok to be loyal to a player like nuge as he has been to the oilers. However a team can handcuff itself by being too loyal to too many.
No doubt Nuge only has downside left as does Hyman and Ekholm.
Hyman and Ekholm have still provided very high level play.
Keeping them all limits improvement opportunities.
Im not saying Nuge should be traded or doesn’t still provide ok value for price but if bowman can improve the team he shouldn’t be too loyal.
Only downside left? Have folks completely lost their minds?!
I don’t believe Nuge has another 100 point season in him. I think it extremely unlikely that he increases his point totals from last year. While also unlikely to increase his effort level away from the puck.( only downside left)
Doesn’t mean he won’t be useful but if a stankoven type upgrade for 3c exists I’d trade nuge all day.
I hope I’m wrong. I thought the same with ekholm last offseason and Ekholm proved me wrong.
Nuge is a one jersey player, it starts and ends with that in my opinion.
I dont believe Nuge is a 100pt player, the Oilers dont need Nuge to be a 100pt player.
Nuge has the 3rd highest scoring forward last season in which everyone calls a disaster.
Get good players, Keep good players.
You’re wrong.
They can still contribute, but unless the pipeline is strong, when they aren’t contributing enough anymore or retire you can be left with no at least equivalent replacement
I wouldn’t trade him just for the sake of it, his cap isn’t a problem. Nuge isn’t strong in the heart of the game – 5v5 production – which is a problem for the team, which is surprising given the talent. They also need to keep the team age balanced and not too old
For me it’s any players except the top 3 at this point. I’m not singling out Nuge, but if some GM wanted to return something good Bowman should do it. Avoid what the Pens did, they should have only kept Crosby if they were serious about contending
Trading Nuge is complete and utter hogwash.
It’s baffling- I get wanting younger players that step up, progression is a great thing, however, RNH is a lifetime 50 point player which places him in the top 6 on any NHL team and he plays centre or wing.
I see your point
Hyman scored 31 goals in 58 games last season and continues to be a playoff monster.
Yes, he’s aging and the injuries will likely continue to be a thing but he is MASSIVE value on the ice for $5MM and he’s likely the most important “of ice player” in that room.
I understand replenishing but trading that guy, if anyone, could crater the team.
Considering the massive value contracts both Hyman and Nuge are on, any trade must be a hell of a haul. I mean, they both make less than $1MM more than AJ Greer (or Vinny 6). Almost $2MM less than Boone Jenner, essentially the same as Kreb…. etc., etc.
Barnett picked up an assist in yesterday’s WJ Summer Showcase finale to finish with two points in four GP.
Also, 45 days until another prospecting season begins as shiny new 2nd-rounder Rudolfs Berzkalns and his Jacks of Lumber open the USHL season.
Also,Ryan Cameron showed well in goal during the tournament with 3 appearances, a 2.02 GAA and 0.920 save percentage. He performed as well as the other 2 top 3 American netminders and is in the running to be Team USA’s startier during thenupcoming WJC’s.
And Tommy Lafreniére played in 2 of 3 games for Canada and had 1 assist.
That ’27 pick is Chicago-bound unless it’s a top-12 pick, since it has the same conditions as from the Walman deal.
But yes, it is highly likely the Oilers will go the rest of this decade without a 1st-rounder from this decade in the lineup.
Is the goal win now or build for the future?
Can you do both at the same time?
Florida, Vegas and Tampa are always all in for the present.
Carolina appears to the exception.
This is the question, for me.
Having come of age as a hockey fan with the 70s Habs, St. Sam Pollock and “win now and build for the future” is my holy grail. GMs can’t do it the way Pollock did it in the 60s and 70s. Maybe, 60 years later, GM Tulsky et al have found a new way to build longer term contention?
I’m also curious about how HuGo manage the Habs over the next decade. Neither Montreal nor Carolina are gifted/saddled with the kind of star power that pushes owner or GM into the “win now” panic.
Montreal seems set up to be good/great for a very long time.
Not one anchor contract, only the tail of the Gallagher contract for one season, $10 million in cap space and a full complement of draft picks.
Very astute management.
Agreed, it all looks good, now. Nice to have their future big stars (Hutson, Demidov) on long-term, friendly contracts. I’m curious about how HuGo manage 5-10 years from now.
Will they continue to draft talent v players to fit needs?
Will they feel pressured to make trades of draft picks or talent if there’s no Cup by 2030?
Will the “build for sustained success” approach succumb to “win now?”
The owner has been supportive of building “the right way.” How much patience does he or the fanbase have?
All things I’m going to be watching.
I won’t put a ceiling in any of the recently drafted kids. We don’t know what we don’t know and any one of them could pop well above their draft day projections. Happens all the time. League has many 30 goal scorers that the words of this blog would attach to on draft day.
Josh Samanski could very well pop to be a really good 2-way 3C.
Maybe Howard has a 40 goal season in him.
Mayne Lafrenière pops in his ELC. Maybe Asher Barnett is Slavin light. We don’t know.
Other will, and do, but I won’t cap these players, many of which are still teenagers.
I excluded Howard, but all the rest are checkers. You could make a case for Berezkin, maybe Hutson, and Marjala is intriguing, but the Achilles for Edmonton future is goals for.
Lafrenière? 6th in the WHL in goals in his draft +1. 41 in 67 games.
Trending well above his draft position – sure, is may go nowhere but, again, we don’t know what these teenagers will turn in to. Not with the development teams and the coaching and the skill coaching and the life coaching and the nutrition/fitness coaching, etc., etc.
He may be Petrov, I dunno, but I’m not going to label him “a checker” before he even turns pro.
In his draft year he was shy. I like him plenty, but middle six is what he’s projecting as an NHL player (should he make it).
“Others are checkers” – maybe that applies to them today but that doesn’t celing them in 2-5-7 years. Again, the league has lots of productive top 6 players that were not projected as such on draft day, that “were checkers” on draft day.
Pracey talks about Barzlakans and underdeveloped offence that they think they can work with him and develop and get out of him. I’m not going to ceiling this kid because his offence didn’t pop in the USHL in a season he was 17 for most of – not when Pracey and his team think there is something there and we have Larsson and his team to work with him.
If you go back in draft history, NHL checkers were WHL scorers. Checkers don’t make the NHL. Mitchell Moroz and Travis Ewanyk were legit junior checkers.
I am saying there are MANY examples where this turns out to not be true.
I’m sure we could talk for days about players that turned out to be much more, and different, than projected on draft day.
When I look at all the prospects and their goal scoring potential, Lafrenière is front and center. Last season’s total pop out. He was not a big goal-scorer in minor hockey, but his WHL totals are hard to ignore.
Malcolm Gastrin is very interesting. He is a goal-scorer. He has consistently played against older competition and produced. He could be a Satan-type.
Aidan Park is also one to watch. He plays on a loaded and top NCAA team. He only got 4th line minutes as a freshman, but still produced decently at that level. He also has NHL bloodline and could surprise.
Dalyn Wakely has played on 3 different teams over the past 3 seasons. He is an older prospect, but on a lesser roster, and a season under his belt in the NCAA, I expect him to produce close to a point per game as a sophomore. Hopefully he has a better supporting cast. He can shoot the puck.
Caden Harvey was on a stacked team last season, so didn’t show much offense, but he is a goal scorer at heart. I bet he gets close to the 30 goal mark, if he plays top 6 minutes.
These are the prospects with the best goal-scoring potential, IMO. The oldest, Wakely, turns 23 in March. The rest are 20 years old or younger. None will be Oilers in the next 2-3 years.
It’s clear the Oilers are looking for the things they need moving forward. The only alternative is trading one of the trio. Even keeping the first round picks isn’t likely to find a better player given position, although I think it would be a good idea
and that is my point – a massive goal scoring season in the WHL as a teenager somewhat out of nowhere.
One could call Berzkalns “a checker” today but we have no idea – Pracey cited underdeveloped offence they think they can help him develop and, if that comes, along with the other attributes, well, he could be much more that we some limit his ceiling to today.
Mark Stone, Joe Pavelski – a couple arguable Hall of Famers that were likely deemed “checkers” on draft day.
Although TL did show great goal-scoring potential the season prior to playing in the WHL. It does show that he really figured it out going in and continued his development at the next level.
It would not surprise me if he is a point per game player in his freshman season with WMU.
Do you know if D.J runs an aggressive PK? With Joseph and Savoie on the P.K I can see them scoring 10 goals as a unit on the PK. I think this is where I see Savoie shine and hopefully Joseph as well as SH are absolute daggers to the opposition
Yes, 100%, very aggressive and DJ has spoken about pressure all over inlcuidn the neutral zone.
Besides Savoie our PK was pathetic last year.