Good news on major Oilers trade acquisition, iffy news on McDavid and Ekholm

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This is from the Edmonton Oilers practice, and here is some good news about the acquisition of Trent Frederic by Edmonton’s main trade trade, but news about the injury status of Connor McDavid, Stuart Skinner, Mattias Ekholm and John Klingberg.

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According to reports, Tony Brar of Oilers reported: “McDavid, Ekholm, Skinner (S.

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Here is Podcaster Joshua Marshall, an oiler from 2 Mutts Hockey Podcasts:
“The latest news about Connor McDavid’s injury: yesterday morning skating and having a conversation with two oil workers’ medical staff, Connor worked closely with his team to decide that he would not travel with the team tomorrow and he would be intimate with his trainers and the oil workers’ brigade. On April 9, McDavid continued to return because they were on standby on Saturday, which was with Celtic Bul, who could be with Saturday with more time. More time to heal, rest and heal.”

My opinion

1. Currently, when I projected to Edmonton’s best lineup, Edmonton lacks the first-line center, the left wing of the second and third-lines, their top goalkeepers, their top-level pairing left Shot D-Man and the right-level shot D-Man with the bottom pairing.

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This means that six regulars have just left the house. not good.

2. Plus the negative side is the lingering hurt of Eckholm and Klinberg. We’ve seen them try to make a comeback and then go back off the field. Ekholm is a key player in the Oilers, so that’s unsettling.

3. On the plus side, it’s nice to hear that Trent Frederic is finally skating with the team. Last year, the Oilers switched Troy Stecher on the deadline, only to find that he was unable to play in the playoffs due to a cyst in his ankle. Frederic’s price is steeper than Stecher. The playoffs require his toughness and skill. Given the lack of resilience in the existing roster, his comeback is crucial to Edmonton’s Stanley Cup hopes.

4. Brar works for the team, but Marshall has some solid sources, so I give some attention in his report on McDavid’s richer.

5. The player I worry most about now is Ekholm. We saw how the Nurse Darnell has collapsed in the last few months and the 2023-24 season’s playoffs.

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The nurse is his own shadow, leaking goals and fighting against A-level, which is largely due to injuries.

Now, we see the same trend for Ekholm. His two-way performance has collapsed in the last 12 games. He can be said to be the most reliable D-Man on the Oilers, and he can be said to be the most inseparable.

We saw this in his A-Class A Hots Plus Minus.

In his first 52 games, he made 1.65 major contributions to Class A shots in each game and made only 1.57 mistakes per game. To be sure, the numbers are good, especially for D-Man facing opposition to competition.

In his last 12 games, Howeber contributed only 0.88 major contributions to Class A and Class A per game, averaging 2.32 major mistakes per game. Yes!

He went from a strong +0.07 per game (a good number for D-Man) to a -1.44 per game, which is a bad number for D-Man, the kind of poor that the nurses saw in the playoffs last year.

Then, in the final part of the season, one key is giving Ekholm and a lot of time to rest and resume the playoffs. Hopefully, his injury will respond to rest and treatment, not something that requires surgery. Maybe the rest will be like a nurse, and you can do it now.

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