Quoting: Timmah007
When you look at the oilers roster who do they need more tarasenko or kosk? I think it’s more likely smith will need help covering an 82 game season than oilers needing help scoring goals pretty sure that part is already well covered. Could take out broberg and the first oilers still have to decline it has nothing to do with value of assets it’s about what the team needs more currently that’s kosk.
I agree Edmonton would need another goalie, but nothing is stopping them from trading for one. They'd save $0.75m in cap space with that trade and could then look for a goalie that's more capable than Koskinen or at least as capable and also cheaper. They could check in on goalies like Kahkonen, Vanacek (imo they should've made a play for either one before the expansion draft), Montembault, Korpisalo, etc. Washington gave up a 2nd to get Vanacek back, clearly they could have paid that.
Smith will be done soon and Koskinen won't cut it. Sooner or later they needed to trade Koskinen and find a better replacement. If they waive Stalock & Archibald, and make the trade I'm proposing then they'll still have $5.03m in cap space to find another goalie and take back salary, and their forwards will now be:
Hyman-McDavid-Puljujarvi
Foegele-Draisaitl-Tarasenko
Perlini-RNH-Yamamoto
Turris-Ryan-Kassian
(Shore, McLeod, Sceviour, Holloway, Marody, Benson, Lavoie)
McDavid, Connor
$250,000)
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