Cooper Marody's rights traded to Edmonton.
Saw it on twitter, link below. The better hockey fans will have to chime in on whether it increases or decreases his chances of leaving after this season. Personally, a senior year in Ann Arbor sounds better than playing for Edmonton, but who knows.
Philly gets a 3rd rounder three years after taking Marody as a sixth. I think it probably indicates how far he has come to improve his value. Winning the B1G scoring title sure helped.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/oilers-acquire-rights-cooper-marody…
So...now he wants to lay low and stay at the Motel 6? Probably just a body double while Vlad checks in at the Hotel California.
Mirrors on the ceiling. The pink champagne on ice
You dont trade a 3rd rounder for a guy that plans on going back for his sr year and then decides to hold out like jimmy vesey
It substantially increases his chances of leaving, unfortunately. Edmonton isn't going to trade a 3 for him if they don't think he's going to be an important asset to the franchise, and I doubt they'd do it if they didn't have a good idea that they'd sign him this year.
Edmonton just traded nothing (a draft pick in 15 months who won't play in the NHL for 1-3 years after that) for something (Cooper Marody). If they didn't think Marody was going to play for them very soon, they would have tried to get somebody else.
Of course, Marody doesn't have to go pro if he doesn't want to, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if he did.
They need depth down the middle...
especially if they're not going to split McDavid and Draisaitl, and who knows how long Nugent-Hopkins will be there. Marody could definitely slide right in to the bottom 6 next year.
that Edmonton is going to put a full court press on him to sign, once his season is over. I would expect they get it done also. He could probably appear in a few NHL games this year.
Chris Dilks, who drops in here occasionally and is waaaaay smarter about college hockey than I am, wrote up an analysis of the trade that interested parties should read.
so it sounds like he's gone, if the Dilks article is accurate and I'm reading it correctly: given that Edm is not a playoof team, they can promise to sign him to an NHL deal *next week* - they see if he can stick in the league and lock him into a contract. He gets an NHL roster spot and his entry contract expires 1 year earlier.
phil being in the playoffs couldn't do that and had he stayed for his last year at M, would have been a FA.
He gone
I can tell you they did this because they have no forward depth at the AHL level. They have a lot Dmen, but squat for forwards who could play in the NHL. They've now signed 2 of their young draft picks for next year and traded for 2 College players. Prevailing theory is they want all these players in Bakersfield next year. But will Marody leave is the question?
Peter Chiarelli is an absolutely incompetenat GM. He has now destroyed 2 teams. Boston and Edmonton. I wouldn't be surprised if he's fired this summer. His trades, he gets fleeced every time (Taylor Hall for Larsson straight up; Griffin Rheinhart who can't make an NHL team for a first and second which gave the Islanders Barzal; Eberle for Strome straight up; Pat Maroon for a 3rd rounder which they traded for Marody). And he signs players over their worth and then gives then NMC (Sekera $5.5Mx5, Russell $4Mx4, and Lucic at $6Mx7).
McDavid is the best player in the league. And someone had a spot on take today on Oilersnation. McDavid is equivalent to Barry Sanders. One fantastic player with a bunch of subpar support cast and an incompetent Management team that can't build a winner around the best player in the league.
I'll just have to pray that Edmonton gets back in the playoffs again sometime in my lifetime. Sad