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[Johnston] Rick Tocchet nous a dit qu’il ne s’attendait pas à ce qu’OEL soit de retour cette saison, mais qu’il voit un gros été devant lui et a de grands espoirs pour lui la saison prochaine. «Je sais que beaucoup de gens le comptent. Je sens qu’il va passer une très bonne année. Comme, il y a une lueur dans ses yeux.


[Johnston] Rick Tocchet nous a dit qu’il ne s’attendait pas à ce qu’OEL soit de retour cette saison, mais qu’il voit un gros été devant lui et a de grands espoirs pour lui la saison prochaine. «Je sais que beaucoup de gens le comptent. Je sens qu’il va passer une très bonne année. Comme, il y a une lueur dans ses yeux.


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27 Comments

  1. Zamboni2022

    That’s a weird way of saying LTIRetire….

  2. NerdPunch

    OEL struggled this year. Less than 10 months ago he fractured his foot, he missed a bunch of offseason, and it seems like he was playing hurt a lot this year before getting shut down.

    So the question becomes, is what we saw this year indicative of his true talent level?

    Or is this a player who with enough recovery/training time and the right partner can provide adequate 2nd pairing minutes next season?

    There really isn’t an obvious solution to the OEL dilemma.

  3. ididntwantsalmon19

    He was actually pretty darn solid last year. Maybe with better team structure he can return closer to that.

    If he can even play like a $4mil defender his contract, while still sucking, doesn’t sink the team.

  4. helixflush

    I actually think that gleam is him holding back tears from how he realizes he shouldn’t have gotten himself into this mess.

  5. I know the meta on this sub is hate for him but it would be awesome if he turned into a good but overpaid D man for us and not impossible to trade.

    I wish nothing but the best for him next season.

  6. coltonjeffs

    Hey wait, I thought we were buying him out

  7. YourBuddy8

    I mean if I had a choice between a player with a gleam in his eye and one who could skate at an NHL level, I’d take the latter

  8. ILoveHipChecks

    If the time off helps improve his game then great. If he looks the same or worse then you buy him out, one more year off the books before hand makes it a little easier.

  9. Podkolzins_a_Canuck

    Fully expecting an Erik Karlsson-esque resurgence

  10. shadownet97

    Wishing him well but, bro you live in a beautiful city. Just take next season off (and the next five), O. You earned it.

    /s

  11. Batsinvic888

    So I guess this rules out a buyout this summer.

    It was always unlikely, but possible. I think if he’s shit against next year, a buyout will happen.

  12. starmonkey33

    Tocchet give him some gambling tips or something?

  13. joeyandkuma

    There go the hopes of a buyout.

    Also with OEL in there you won’t have cash to add more DMEN.

    infinite non-playoff retool will continue till Aquaman passes away.

    Predictions:

    1. We resign Hronek to a big deal . He gets no PP1 time and point totals drop along with his confidence. We try to cap dump him half way through the year
    2. We trade our 1st for more help with the « all in » to squeeze in plan. Then miss the playoffs again

  14. DickheadPrime

    I’m all for positivity but that gleam in the eye quote is comic gold.

  15. AgentKorralin

    Best case scenario for us is that OEL can come back and elevate his play much like we have seen many of the AHL call ups do. Worst case is well, OEL is even worse.

    I hate myself for saying it, but I would take that gamble. Wild comparison but just using it for injury comparison sake, but Demko and OEL. Demko clearly looked like shit at the start of the season, just didn’t seem like he was really back into it after surgery in the off season, then suffers and injury, goes out. Comes back and is now playing like absolute fire.

    OEL is obviously nowhere near the greatness of Demko levels. However, he fractured his foot in the offseason, and while was cleared to play has been absolutely horrendous. But almost all of players were absolutely horrendous for a majority of the season. OEL then gets injured, Toccet had been with us for 9 games at this point. I’m going to hope that OEL can heal over the summer, come back and be inserted into a lineup that is good and that he helps it stay good. Even if OEL is our number 4, if he can stip being a liability and just be that guy who we know isn’t gonna get 50 points, but is gonna stop the opposing team from scoring, I can live with that. If we can avoid having to buy him out and be stuck with various cap penalties I think we’ll be way better off.

  16. Chef_Bronson

    Like my grandmother used to say « you can hope in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up. »

  17. sydster_d

    Isn’t the buyout the actual worst option if you’re one of the Canucks fans that wants them to rebuild?

    If they buy him out, we save the full cap hit next season, and then 5.5 the season after…

    …that means management would turn around and sign someone else and use that money on a stop gap to help us ‘win now’.

    Years 5-8 we are penalized 2.5 million per. That means you are supporting long term pain for short term gain.

    I’d rather gamble the surgery helps his skating and he plays a lot closer to what we saw last year than the guy we saw this year.

    It might be a pipe dream, but QH on the first pairing with anyone, and then Hronek with last seasons version of OEL would actually be a potentially nice 2nd pairing.

    Now, if the skating still sucks, then we buy him out. But I’d exhaust every possibility before committing to hurting this team for so many years in the future.

    Of course it might be worth it to see how his skating looks though. If he’s as bad as he showed this season, you simply have to buy him out, or pay him 7 million to play on your 3rd pair.

  18. Poo_hawk

    I had a feeling he would not get bought out 🙁

  19. Knight_On_Fire

    I pretty much assumed he would be bought out when Allvin put the team over the cap. Because, surely he has a plan for the cap that doesn’t depend on another team taking advantage of his compromised position.

  20. MoodyJ87

    Wonder if that gleam is 6 years on LTIR… in Greece or something

  21. Soap_BoxerShorts

    Is it just me or does this scream Jim Benning talk…?!??

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