As per Dan Tencer, the Edmonton Oilers have made Frederic Chabot their new goaltending coach.
Chabot had an interesting professional career. New Jersey drafted him in the tenth round of the 1986 draft, and Montreal signed him away a few years later. This was only the first of many moves for the longtime minor-league netminder, who played for sixteen different teams over eighteen seasons after he was drafted. He saw some NHL action with Montreal, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles before winding up his career in Germany.
Chabot’s minor-league career was pretty exceptional – he was twice the IHL MVP and once the best goaltender in the AHL, and it seems a shame that he never managed more than a dozen games in an NHL season.
Chabot becomes a little harder to track after retiring in 2004, but he comes to the Oilers from Hockey Canada, where he’s been working as a goaltending consultant. He’ll be familiar with almost all of the current crop of young Canadian goaltenders, and he’s coached Oilers’ draft pick Olivier Roy at Hockey Canada camps before.
*Yawn*
Wow, after the Heatly thing, this sure is boring news. At least Pete Peeters had a fun name.
*returns to the Lab to continue saving the world through Science*
@ Archaeologuy
That's like having the girlfriend move in before the wife moves out. Hahaha- nice work murray.
Garett wrote:
They only had a couple million in room left, must mean Heatly has been delt.
@ Ogden Brother:
Yeah, he was dealt… he was dealt on June 30th at about 9:59 PM MST. But we all know what happened then.
@ Oil-man-Dan:
Its a 2 year deal according to TSN, no $ terms released as of yet, I dont know what this means for the Sens Cap, obviously they dont plan on re-signing Comrie, you should change your underwear every 15 minutes or as your doctor recommends.
@ I'm A Scientist!
After saving the world, mind helping Oil-man-Dan out with his rash.
Your welcome Dan.
@ ronaldo:
you dont have to type "@ _____" if you use the reply button on the bottom right of every comment. I'm just assuming you didnt already know that.
I'm a Scientist! wrote:
Well they have to deal Heatly or someone else with a decent sized contract before the start of the season.
@ Ogden Brother:
or place them in the minors. Heatley will be the best player in the AHL for sure.
@ Archaeologuy:
I wasn't aware of the 15 minute rule, let's see here, just crunch the numbers on the ol' arithmadditionulator gizmo… I'm only 4312 minutes late.
@ Arachaeologuy
I know that, but when I'm on my blackberry, it won't allow me to use that feature (can't quote either)- not sure why. Trust me, it's annoying as hell to type in @______ each time and I'd love for anyone to tell me why this is so……….anyone?
ronaldo wrote:
Personally, I blame MacT.
@ ronaldo:
I didnt know Blackberries had that issue. I apologize for my Name being longish and odd. I also respond to Archy.
Oil-man-Dan wrote:
As do we all.
@ Oil-man-Dan:
Where is he anyway? I miss his glasses.
@ Archy
Thanks. Much easier.
@ Oil-man-Dan
I thought MacT had something to do with it. He might be the cause of that rash too. Also heard he may have been consulting at GM the past few years
ronaldo wrote:
Cant speak to the GM rumors, as for the rash… ewww.
The score is reporting Kovie to the sens for 10 mil over 2 years. That must put them over, or very close to the cap.
Pretty clear message to Dany boy, that he won't be playing on the sens next year
According to nhlnumbers.com, this signing puts them over the cap by 1.3 mil. We'll be seeing more moves by the sens soon methinks
Jonathan Willis wrote:
SO SAY WE ALL….
My two cents.. for what it is worth..
I have not said boo about Heatley till now…
I have not quite come to peace with all this but,
If I understand his point of view, leaving the SENS,
was of the lack of ice time & PP time..right?
I guess he did not understand that we would have
given him the keys, given him the "C", played him 65minutes a game ( plus shot outs )chanted his name….
Or Maybe he did understand, and did not want that type of pressure… Some are Leaders… and some are not.
As far as the Goal Tender staff change, maybe after Garon bumped bellies with Pete… Tambo thought differently towards having the tenders input.
PS: I am Proud of my Fellow Canadian's on my team.
Players and coaches, support staff.. Very Proud.
great move, Oilers.
so weird having P squared as the goalie coach, considering December 30, 1981 and the beating he took from Wanye's grandad.
/What do you mean, that's ancient history? get off my parched lawn, doogie howser!
This would seen to mean we are safe from Healty, they haven't left a lot of room to take a cap hit (ie Penner)back in a trade.
olderthendirt wrote:
Great point, doesn't signing Kovalev actually equate to Murray having to trade Heatley for LESS of a return than originally thought? That is, if he decides to trade him at all. The other option Kovalev offers Murray is to make Heatley sit on his ass all winter. Alexi may not get you 40-50 twine benders, but he makes up for quite a bit of it. The plot thickens….
dyckster wrote:
He would have to bury him in the minors to do that, which Heatley can veto with his No Movement clause. Heatley will have to be traded or bought out for this to work under the cap.
I agree that this means a lower return for Dany, I'm thinking more draft picks and prospects than players.
I feel we're still very much in the mix.
Same deal, but we take back Smith and stick him in Springfield. Instant veteran presence on the farm and I'm pretty sure the numbers work.
@ Downright Fierce
I can't see the Oilers sticking their former captain, their longest serving captain, in the minors. The optics are terrible.
ScubaSteve wrote:
Sorry, should have been more specific. What I meant to say was, if Murray is able to free up the cap space to have Kovalev and Heatley, should he not trade Heatley he may decide to sit out. It would be a very unproductive financial burden for the Sens, but might be worth it. Or even better, he dresses, but Clouston seriously restricts his ice time to, oh, I don't know, some PK time and 4th line duty.
Switching gears a little, I'm honest (and fickle) enough to say that should somehow DH ends up here, I for one would forget about all this BS after he scored, like maybe, his 30th goal or so.
dyckster wrote:
Agreed, unless another option has popped up, this should lower Murray's leverage.
dyckster wrote:
Gimme a break, you and everyone else (maybe with the exception of Brownlee) will be pumping your fist in the air after Heatley's first goal as an Oiler.
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