Offseason and Dumping Neal

Created by: McDavidFan97

Team: 2021-22 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 24, 2021

Published: Feb. 24, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

This is more about how good our roster could look, the specific signings are debatable

If we get rid of Neal there's an insane amount of cap space. There's no reason the Oilers can't be a top contender in a scenario like this. Money might be spent a bit differently but I think these are reasonable options. I know it's very unlikely this all happens but imo keeping Neal is weighing us down

Before you say Danault is underpaid, he's underperforming this year and doesn't have a goal. I signed Danault but there's a few other 3C's to consider

Another option I considered was not signing a top 6 winger and spending less on a 3C to sign Hamilton instead, but I feel the Oilers would want to spend big money on a defensive d-man, Nurse Bear and Bouch can run a PP

If the Oilers can't sign one of the 3 or 4 legit starters during the offseason this could look a bit different

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Holloway, Dylan		3	$920,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Yamamoto, Kailer		2	$2,300,000
Kahun, Dominik		2	$2,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Ennis, Tyler	1	$900,000
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan	6	$6,500,000
Haas, Gaëtan	3	$1,200,000
Larsson, Adam	3	$2,750,000
Martinez, Alec	1	$4,000,000
Binnington, Jordan	4	$6,000,000
Hoffman, Mike	1	$5,000,000
Danault, Phillip	1	$5,000,000

Trades

EDM

ANA

Benson, Tyler [RFA Rights]
Jones, Caleb
Neal, James
2022 2nd round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

Seattle takes Neal

Buyouts

Andrej Sekera: $1,500,000

Retained Salary Transactions

Milan Lucic: $750,000 (12.5%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$81,827,672	$669,339	$850,000	-$327,672

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW, C UFA - 8	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C UFA - 5	Puljujärvi, Jesse $1,175,000$1,175,000 RW UFA - 1
Hoffman, Mike $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW UFA - 3	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW UFA - 4	Yamamoto, Kailer $2,300,000$2,300,000 RW RFA - 1
Holloway, Dylan $920,000$920,000 LW, C RFA - 3	Danault, Phillip $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 6	Kassian, Zack $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 3
Kahun, Dominik $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW, C UFA	Haas, Gaëtan $1,200,000$1,200,000 C UFA	Archibald, Josh $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Ennis, Tyler $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Nurse, Darnell $5,600,000$5,600,000 LD UFA - 1	Bear, Ethan $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Binnington, Jordan $6,000,000$6,000,000 G UFA - 6
Martinez, Alec $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Bouchard, Evan $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 2	Koskinen, Mikko $4,500,000$4,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Lagesson, William $725,000$725,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Larsson, Adam $2,750,000$2,750,000 RD UFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Russell, Kris $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 1		Klefbom, Oscar $4,167,000$4,167,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Turris, Kyle $1,650,000$1,650,000 ($525,000$525K$525,000$525K) C, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Feb. 24, 2021 at 6:20 p.m.

Zmach

Pistol Pete

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 5,140

Likes: 1,479

edmonton can't spend that kind of money on a 3C

Feb. 24, 2021 at 6:48 p.m.

pandemic_p

Kovid Klaw

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 779

Likes: 154

Before the season, I would have been against giving away jones but now with him in the dog house, I don't see a spot for him in the lineup
Too much cash for a 3c
blues will probably overpay to keep binnington since they let allen go
Hoffman and Martinez probably look for more term

Feb. 24, 2021 at 7:04 p.m.

coga16

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 20,030

Likes: 12,187

There isn’t a taxi squad next year so turris full contract is on the books making you over the cap plus you aren’t getting out t
Of the Neal contract that eay

Feb. 24, 2021 at 7:55 p.m.

McDavidFan97

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 462

Likes: 162

Quoting: pandemic_p

Right now its either term or money with the flat cap. Hoffman signed for 4mill × 1 in st Louis im sure he'd do 5mill x 1. With term the money goes down because we don't know when the cap will increase. Martinez only has few years of reliable hockey in him. So with term the money would go down quite a bit .

imo he'd get around 3.5 - 4.5mill for one year, and around 2.5 - 3.5mill if the deal is 2+ years.

Yea Binnington probably stays but my point is I think we have 6mill to spend on a starter. If none go to free agency it'll be another year of likely mediocre goaltending

Feb. 24, 2021 at 7:56 p.m.

McDavidFan97

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 462

Likes: 162

Quoting: Zmach

edmonton can't spend that kind of money on a 3C

Yea its pretty unrealistic I doubt the money would work out anyways. On paper it looks like a dangerous lineup although the D is a bit questionable possibly

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