Steps i would do to Fix the Oilers

Created by: PuckPal

Team: 2019-20 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 27, 2019

Published: Jan. 27, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

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1) Use the rest of this season to undo as may of Cherrelli's mistakes as they can. I get some are going to be harder than others but going to teams like ARI, OTT that may be looking for cap dumps to get to the cap floor next season and they want to take the risk of Russell or Sekera for more or less a late pick they should do this to free up cap space to go after the type of players Cherrelli should have signed in the 1st place. Also, assess who they need and who can be used to streghten the roster.

2) Hire a GM with a great scouting background my choice is Mark Hunter seeing he did a great job in Toronto rebuilding their scouting department and did a great job rebuilding the leafs Prospect pool. The reason they should go that way is you have Wayne Gretzky to help recruit UFA's to come to Edmonton and Bob Nicholson and Keith Gretzky help to run the day to day.
The leafs trade is a 2 part trade the reason for this is so the leafs have Johnsson for their cup run this year so they are as deep as they can be for the run and at the end of the day Johnsson, Brown, Liljegren, Borgman, and Holl for Larsson, Chaisson and maybe a b prospect is fair value and allows the oilers to get the cap with dumping Russell and Sekera to go after a Karlsson or Gardiner type puck moving dman that they need. The other team trades are cap dumps and allow them to restructure their roster out of the 2000's and into this decade.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Johnsson, Andreas	3	$3,000,000
Puljujärvi, Jesse	1	$950,000
Borgman, Andreas	2	$720,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hutchinson, Michael	2	$800,000
Jensen, Nick	3	$2,000,000
Staal, Eric	3	$4,000,000
Gardiner, Jake	7	$7,000,000
Tanev, Brandon	3	$2,500,000

Trades

EDM

Additional Details:

Borgman
Trade at deadline

TOR

Larsson, Adam

Additional Details:

Chaisson

EDM

2019 7th round pick (CGY)

OTT

Russell, Kris

EDM

2019 6th round pick (PIT)

ARI

Sekera, Andrej

EDM

Johnsson Rights

TOR

2020 2nd round pick (EDM)

Buyouts

Benoit Pouliot: $1,333,333
Eric Gryba: $300,000

Buried

Ryan Spooner: $2,025,000 ($3,100,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,000,000	$80,339,499	$0	$230,000	$2,660,501

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW UFA - 6	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C UFA - 7	Brown, Connor $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Johnsson, Andreas $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Puljujärvi, Jesse $950,000$950,000 RW UFA
Tanev, Brandon $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 6	Staal, Eric $4,000,000$4,000,000 C UFA - 2	Yamamoto, Kailer $894,166$894,166 ($230,000$230K) RW RFA - 2
Lucic, Milan $5,250,000$5,250,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4		Kassian, Zack $1,950,000$1,950,000 RW UFA - 1
	Brodziak, Kyle $1,150,000$1,150,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Gardiner, Jake $7,000,000$7,000,000 LD UFA - 4	Nurse, Darnell $3,200,000$3,200,000 LD UFA - 1	Koskinen, Mikko $4,500,000$4,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
	Jensen, Nick $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 4	Hutchinson, Michael $800,000$800,000 G UFA - 1
Klefbom, Oscar $4,167,000$4,167,000 LD UFA - 4	Benning, Matthew $1,900,000$1,900,000 RD UFA - 1
Borgman, Andreas $720,000$720,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Holl, Justin $675,000$675,000 RD UFA - 1
Cave, Colby $675,000$675,000 C RFA - 1
Manning, Brandon $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Johnsson, A.		McDavid, C.		Draisaitl, L.
	Gardiner, J.		Brown, C.

Power Play 2
Nugent-Hopkins, R.		Staal, E.		Yamamoto, K.
	Klefbom, O.		Borgman, A.

Penalty Kill 1
	Brown, C.	Brodziak, K.
	Nurse, D.	Benning, M.

Penalty Kill 2
	Lucic, M.	Staal, E.
	Klefbom, O.	Jensen, N.

Top Comments

Jan. 27, 2019 at 11:45 a.m.

Claesson4Norris

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...Russell isn't worth a 7th.

Jan. 27, 2019 at 11:46 a.m.

PuckPal

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Quoting: Claesson4Norris

...Russell isn't worth a 7th.

It was just a dump it could be a oiler trade down with their 7th involved too. Those 2 trades are more riddind them of salary and taking whatever they offer as long as they don't need to retain salary.

Jan. 27, 2019 at 11:50 a.m.

Claesson4Norris

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Quoting: PuckPal

That's not how cap dumps work though. If you want to get rid of those contracts, you need to give up something of value.

Jan. 27, 2019 at 11:56 a.m.

PuckPal

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Quoting: Claesson4Norris

That's not how cap dumps work though. If you want to get rid of those contracts, you need to give up something of value.

Your dewelling on what i put as value again as long as it's not ridiculous even if Bear is involved or both 2nd round picks for career AHLers the point is ridding them of the contracts i put late round picks on them cause they are not valueable so teams like ott or Ari may look at as using late round picks to have a vet but again the important thing about this post is the leafs trade which is using a solid player to stregthen the roster and the type of GM the oilers should be looking for.

Jan. 27, 2019 at 12:09 p.m.

MisstheWhalers

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Yeah you need to give up an asset or two or three even to get rid of guys you don't want.
Like for example: would Yamomoto and a 2nd round pick be enough for Ottawa to take Russell? Ottawa sends back a 7th round pick, C-grade prospect or AHL plug to make the trade legitimate. Then ask yourself: do I want to sacrifice those assets to create that cap space to sign/trade for other players or just keep and play Russell?
Tough times in Edmonton

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