OEL Oil et al

Team: 2020-21 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 17, 2020

Published: Sep. 19, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Rumours are circulating regarding OEL to Edm for Nurse as the basis of a trade. OEL is linked to Edm's coaching staff and international success with Larsson. This wouldn't be ideal for Edmonton due to long-term Cap impacts, but this is an exercise to see how this could work. Part of the rumour has Nurse then flipped to NYR for K'Andre Miller + a 1st. The source of the rumour apparently heard this from an Oiler staff member and said they called the Lucic-Neal trade last year.

I don't like the Fleury deal so much and I expect a lot of flak, but Neal has a more palatable buy-out structure than Fleury which is why Vegas might be open to this trade.

With the Benning for Brown trade, I can already hear the comments. But Benning is one of the best 3rd pairing RHD and he is good enough to cover the 2RD on occassion. He would be better than any of the right side D in Ott right now and RHD are a less common commodity. As well, Brown is replaceable via Free Agency.

Koivu is a mentor to help with JP's return and Granlund is from JP's hometown team and a long-time Koivu teammate. He may accept a 1 yr team friendly deal to rejoin his fellow Finn teammate Koivu and to play with McDavid to pump his numbers for a more lucrative deal in 2021-22.

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