Oilers 21 Off Season

Team: 2021-22 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 15, 2021

Published: Feb. 15, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

This assumes:

- Klefbom comes back... if not, shift all the LD up one and sign Koekkoek (essentially the same defensive line up as the current season).

- Caleb Jones / William Lagesson gets taken by the Krakken (I’ve put Jones in LTIR to capture this).

- Don’t buy out Neal... if the Oilers can put a good team together without having to buy him out, then perfect. Dead cap space in today’s NHL can kill a team. If they buy him out this season... that’s 4 years of $2.0MM dead cap. Brutal. The Oilers are slowly crawling out of cap hell... don’t make it worse or prolong the process.

- That third line would be a fun high energy line with offensive upside... if Holloway isn’t ready, send him to AHL, and put JJ with Archibald and Ennis again making our fourth line Kassian, Neal and Turris (expensive fourth line but a decent one).

- The Oilers don’t have any prospects that’ll be long term solutions for goalie... so maybe it’s time they exhaust some assets to get a solid, long-term solution for a goalie that will help now, and bring stability for years to come. It’s a lot to give up... but Gibson is an incredibly high quality goalie and would be amazing behind that Oilers team. That said, in all honesty, despite being a lot to give up, I have no idea if Anaheim would except this either.