Taylor Hall is (inexplicably) on the trade block right now as the Edmonton Oilers prepare to blow their franchise up everywhere but where they should, which is the front office. Of course, when hockey fans hear that one of the game’s best forwards might be trade bait, they salivate and throw around proposals that they hope their teams will pull off for a little more scoring punch.
Apparently Damien Cox is a fan of HF Boards, because he proposed a HF Boards-worthy trade proposal for the Oilers.
If you’re EDM, at draft do u offer No. 1 pick to MTL for Subban/Price package? Or to LA for Doughty/Quick? Gotta get creative, aggressive.
— Damien Cox (@DamoSpin) December 16, 2014
Wow. The Canadiens shipping Carey Price and P.K. Subban to Edmonton for the first overall pick that may or may not be the Oilers’? The Kings trading Jonathan Quick and Drew Doughty to Edmonton? Why? What sense does this make for either team? The Canadiens are no longer first in the Atlantic Division… by a point. That isn’t exactly cause to sell off your top two players on a gamble of a draft pick that may or may not land you the NHL’s next franchise player.
The Kings are in the middle of one of their patented regular season lulls. They always kick it in high gear in the playoffs, and it’s because of Jonathan Quick that they’ve won two of the last three Stanley Cups. They’re considered a contender again this year. Again, why sell off your franchise goaltender two and a half months into the season for something that isn’t a sure thing?
I’m not sure if Cox meant to say that this trade needs to happen now, at the deadline, or at the draft. Any of the three spots would be ludicrous. Until the Oilers fix their front office, they don’t need another top draft pick to stymie, but I don’t think either the Kings or the Habs will be willing to save Connor McDavid from that fate.
