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Nylander: "I think that Edmonton would be fun now. I would like to try that now."
By David Staples
Nylander looking for a new team, casts a glance at capped out Oilers.
Good work over at Japers' Rink, a Washington Capitals blog, which has a story from Capitals forward Michael Nylander, who has fallen in love with Edmonton all over again.
In July 2007, if you recall, Oilers GM Kevin Lowe thought he had Nylander signed up, only to have Nylander's wife balk at moving to Alberta. Nylander ended up in Washington, where he has had limited success.
But now that Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau has told Nylander there's no role for him on the team any longer, Nylander is wistfully recalling past loves and looking for a warm embrace in Edmonton.
"It would have been fun to try Edmonton," he recently told a Swedish newspaper. "Now, of course, I said no to them before. Instead I chose Washington because we had more friends and knew more people there. And it was perhaps a little better socially. But I would have liked to try Edmonton. I think that it would be fun now. I would like to try that now but it will probably be difficult for them to get me under the salary cap"
Nylander will be 37 in October. He scored nine goals and had 24 assists last season in 72 games, which is about the level of production one would expect from a player of his age and with his background. He was never a superstar, never a player one might expect to have good years past the age of 35.
Nylander did have a few extra good years tacked on at the end of his career playing with Jaromir Jagr in New York. He's evidently not good enough any more to play that role with superstar Alexander Ovechkin in Washington.
Again, this is no surprise.
Very few players Nylander's age can be productive NHLers, and it was a stroke a massive good luck that Nylander turned down the Oilers two summers ago. Of all the moves Kevin Lowe made as Oilers GM, his pursuit of the creaky Nylander made the least sense to me.
Nylander screwed us over once - which turned out to be a good thing - and now....past his prime, unproductive, and out of NHL options....he thinks it would be "fun to come to Edmonton"? I hope KLowe personally flips him the bird and tells him to stick his interest in Edmonton where the sun don't shine.
Nylander: "I think that Edmonton would be fun now. I would like to try that now."
By David Staples
Nylander looking for a new team, casts a glance at capped out Oilers.
Good work over at Japers' Rink, a Washington Capitals blog, which has a story from Capitals forward Michael Nylander, who has fallen in love with Edmonton all over again.
In July 2007, if you recall, Oilers GM Kevin Lowe thought he had Nylander signed up, only to have Nylander's wife balk at moving to Alberta. Nylander ended up in Washington, where he has had limited success.
But now that Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau has told Nylander there's no role for him on the team any longer, Nylander is wistfully recalling past loves and looking for a warm embrace in Edmonton.
"It would have been fun to try Edmonton," he recently told a Swedish newspaper. "Now, of course, I said no to them before. Instead I chose Washington because we had more friends and knew more people there. And it was perhaps a little better socially. But I would have liked to try Edmonton. I think that it would be fun now. I would like to try that now but it will probably be difficult for them to get me under the salary cap"
Nylander will be 37 in October. He scored nine goals and had 24 assists last season in 72 games, which is about the level of production one would expect from a player of his age and with his background. He was never a superstar, never a player one might expect to have good years past the age of 35.
Nylander did have a few extra good years tacked on at the end of his career playing with Jaromir Jagr in New York. He's evidently not good enough any more to play that role with superstar Alexander Ovechkin in Washington.
Again, this is no surprise.
Very few players Nylander's age can be productive NHLers, and it was a stroke a massive good luck that Nylander turned down the Oilers two summers ago. Of all the moves Kevin Lowe made as Oilers GM, his pursuit of the creaky Nylander made the least sense to me.
Nylander screwed us over once - which turned out to be a good thing - and now....past his prime, unproductive, and out of NHL options....he thinks it would be "fun to come to Edmonton"? I hope KLowe personally flips him the bird and tells him to stick his interest in Edmonton where the sun don't shine.
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