I'd rather have yamo and holloway than Keller.

I started typing a lengthy response and just said, nah the Coyotes decline. Chychrun and Soderstrom are about their only untouchable pieces and that trade has a definite quantity over quality feel.

Why is it that homeboy Tyler Benson gets traded away in almost every ACGM I see presented by an Edmonton adherent?

Fair the main piece is chychrun tho.

Cause he's expendable and can be used to obtain more pressing needs.

Fair but holloway and the two firsts could potentially be something special with ben and yamamoto being really good depth guys.The only way this trade happens is if Arizona decides to blow everything up which is unlikely but could happen.

I'd still maybe wager holloway and yamo, Holloway is gonna be that big presence on McDavid's line and yamo was a point per game player last year...

Neither team wants to do this. Chychrun and Keller are the cornerstones of Arizona's future, and Edmonton would be insane to give away holloway and yam

Because he's killing it in the AHL but only has NHL average skating ability, so he's seen as a bust by many Oilers fans. Every prospect has to perfect or they get discarded like an old kleenex...

What?

That trade is 2 future 1st round picks, 2 of Edmonton's top prospects, and a young roster player already capable of playing top 6 minutes and producing. Plus another pick in a mid round draft... how in the world is that quantity over quality? That's all quality assets.

This has a real Bracco feeling to it. Killing it in the AHL so he's got to worth tons in the nhl, let go for nothing at the end of the year

Keller seems overpaid, the 38th highest paid forward in the league. Oilers can spend 7m better than Keller and keep their picks. Yea Chrychrum is great value in the trade, but the Keller inclusion kills any thought of the deal.

Don't think the Oilers consider that in a flat cap world. Way too much of our prospect pipeline gone in one deal. Either it works and you look like genius or it doesn't work and you're years away of getting out of the mess. I think I'd rather have the 6 future pieces and take advantage of another flat cap free agency to tinker around the margins.

keller isn't someone the oilers need. Chychrun is a solid dman who is worth top assets

Well 2 late 1sts one in a draft bereft of depth, another at the back half of a draft. Holloway is a nice player and the best part of the package, Benson is an AHL player and if you’re counting Yamamoto as a prospect well than my definition of prospect isn’t a guy who has played 101 NHL games. So yeah not 2 top prospects I didn’t see Broberg or Bouchard’s name in there, and they are trading for a Norris caliber dman. Benson is 100% filler, as is a 3rd pick in 3 drafts from now, a 2021 1st rd pick has the least amount of value any 1st round pick has ever had, Yamamoto is a solid player nothing special. So yeah 4 of the 6 pieces being meh makes it most definitely quantity over quality.

Every single one of you Oilers fans under this trade saying that the Oilers shouldn’t do this are out of your mind. Arizona is getting absolutely robbed here

Well, you clearly don't follow the Oilers if you call Benson a "filler"... the guy has tore apart the AHL for 3 seasons which is not an easy thing to do in your early 20's. The fact that this draft is so scrambled should not lower the value of the pick - very good chances Arizona could get a steal between picks 20-25 (which is where the puck currently is) & also the fact that Arizona doesn't even have a 1st this year adds value. Next year's draft will be a pretty good first round, so even if the pick is 32nd it could still be a good player. Yamamoto is the quality young roster player that can already play top 6 minutes (guess you missed that part), he'd be a heck of a compliment for Conor Garland. Then there's Dylan Holloway who was their recent 1st round pick.

So yeah,
2 top prospects: Benson and Holloway
Young NHL top 6 player: Yamamoto
2 1st round picks
A 3rd round pick

That's most definitely not quantity over quality.

No they're not.

Chychrun = Yamamoto, 2021 1st, Holloway
Keller << Benson, 2022 1st, 2023 3rd

Arizona gets the better end of this deal. Keller hasn't performed well since his rookie year and he's basically a 45 point guy that doesn't score a lot. At $7.15M for 7 more years, he'd better start turning that around or he's in contract anchor territory. & the fact that Arizona can shed that much money in a world where they already didn't have enough of it before the pandemic, they definitely don't have it now. There's no way Arizona is "getting robbed in this deal" 😂

“He’s torn apart the AHL for 3 years”, drafted in 2016 is not a prospect. He is a guy who hasn’t made the NHL. He is filler.

100% the value of 2021 picks are low because A) there is no high end talent B) some prospects read OHL haven’t played

Yamamoto is not a top young NHL talent. He’s solid but he is literally a .5 ppg career guy which translates into 41pts a year in an 82 game season. Guys that score 40pts a season are not too young talent.

You’re entitled to your opinion, and I’m not even an AZ fan but that is an offer AZ A) never accepts B) says you need to add more quality to make it realistic. Hence it is more quantity than quality. Peace.

I wouldnt do either of those deals separately from each other and certainly not as a whole package. The package for Keller in particular is a joke lol. He’s on pace for 55 points on an anemic offense where he has to create all of his own opportunities. On EDM he would be a PPG player, especially playing with one of McD or Draisaitl. In return they get Bracco 2.0 and a pick above 25. Yawn. And the package for Chych is in the realm of possibilities value-wise, but Coyotes 1. Are not trading him and 2. If they did it would be to get a 1C. Considering none of your top guys are for sale, we’ll pass.

Your evaluation of Keller is amazingly . . . uninformed.

His 35 points on an offensively challenged Arizona team, where he doesn't have one of the Big Three as his center, would still put him ahead of all other forwards on the Oilers (and that's assuming that RNH will score more points in his final 6 games than Keller will score in his 3 final games).

That you think Keller isn't worth a future late first and two very dubious other features (odds on to be worthless) is simultaneously shocking and hilarious.