The canucks need learn from the best teams and simply park him on LTIR for the rest of his career with a fake injury. What we would need is an owner willing to pay that wage while he sits on a beach…
Solitude_09
OEL will be bought out next off-season and then 24/25 will be the true test for Rutherford/Allvin and the Canucks organization.
Nucksfan23
On the bright side, OEL’s money coming off the books can go into Hughes next contract
SackofLlamas
Hot take: For a year, possibly two, we will witness an OELaissance, which will lead to a lot of insufferable shitposts praising Benning for his acquisition and castigating the haters.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s not going to pull an Erik Karlsson, but I think you’ll see a dramatic resurgence in his quality of play. You might see something a lot more akin to the back end of Edler’s time here, where he was a dependable veteran workhorse occasionally exposed by the lack of a steady partner and the fact we kept feeding him into massive shutdown minutes.
1. He had a screwed up foot. OEL isn’t the fleetest player on his best days at this stage in his career, and do you know what doesn’t contribute to your best days? A screwed up foot. An already slower player lost a step he couldn’t afford to lose.
2. The Boudreau Canucks were a formless, « what is defense » pond hockey party, and the lack of systemic structure was particularly hard on defensemen who didn’t have the wheels to swashbuckle.
3. He was stapled to the lumbering corpse of Tyler Myers, whose overall game is weak and permissive in ways that OEL is completely incapable of compensating for. Both had their flaws exacerbated by the other’s weakness. If he were to line up alongside a younger, swifter defenseman, and was utilized more carefully, he could and should see a dramatic uptick in his underlying numbers.
So when the season gets underway, don’t be surprised when OEL starts playing like a dependable middle pairing defenseman. Alternatively, he could come back even slower and more terrible than ever. I’ve been wrong before. But if and when that happens, don’t bother quoting this post at me. I’ll just pretend it never happened.
OutlawCountryFan
Honestly Canucks should do everything in their power to get rid of OEL this offseason
SkidmarkDave
Yeah ok let’s shut the sub back down
Knight_On_Fire
This team is a goddamn mess.
Toiletboy4
I mean there’s no way they get rid of him right? He was ‘the guy’ they wanted but my god I don’t understand it.
BlocknBarrel
They need to send Quinton to New Jersey to get a cup with his brothers
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The canucks need learn from the best teams and simply park him on LTIR for the rest of his career with a fake injury. What we would need is an owner willing to pay that wage while he sits on a beach…
OEL will be bought out next off-season and then 24/25 will be the true test for Rutherford/Allvin and the Canucks organization.
On the bright side, OEL’s money coming off the books can go into Hughes next contract
Hot take: For a year, possibly two, we will witness an OELaissance, which will lead to a lot of insufferable shitposts praising Benning for his acquisition and castigating the haters.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s not going to pull an Erik Karlsson, but I think you’ll see a dramatic resurgence in his quality of play. You might see something a lot more akin to the back end of Edler’s time here, where he was a dependable veteran workhorse occasionally exposed by the lack of a steady partner and the fact we kept feeding him into massive shutdown minutes.
1. He had a screwed up foot. OEL isn’t the fleetest player on his best days at this stage in his career, and do you know what doesn’t contribute to your best days? A screwed up foot. An already slower player lost a step he couldn’t afford to lose.
2. The Boudreau Canucks were a formless, « what is defense » pond hockey party, and the lack of systemic structure was particularly hard on defensemen who didn’t have the wheels to swashbuckle.
3. He was stapled to the lumbering corpse of Tyler Myers, whose overall game is weak and permissive in ways that OEL is completely incapable of compensating for. Both had their flaws exacerbated by the other’s weakness. If he were to line up alongside a younger, swifter defenseman, and was utilized more carefully, he could and should see a dramatic uptick in his underlying numbers.
So when the season gets underway, don’t be surprised when OEL starts playing like a dependable middle pairing defenseman. Alternatively, he could come back even slower and more terrible than ever. I’ve been wrong before. But if and when that happens, don’t bother quoting this post at me. I’ll just pretend it never happened.
Honestly Canucks should do everything in their power to get rid of OEL this offseason
Yeah ok let’s shut the sub back down
This team is a goddamn mess.
I mean there’s no way they get rid of him right? He was ‘the guy’ they wanted but my god I don’t understand it.
They need to send Quinton to New Jersey to get a cup with his brothers