Year 2 of the Big Islanders Deal

Created by: BeterChiarelli

Team: 2022-23 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 15, 2021

Published: Dec. 15, 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

A follow-up to last night's AGM (https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/537075?post_id=2848148)

The cap is going to be very, very tight for the Oilers: there's room to run a 23rd man but it leaves little in remaining space. Granted, flipping the LTIR deal of Klefbom to the Bolts will allow Edmonton to finally start accruing cap space. Another $1.5M raise in the cap, the expiration of $2.25M in buyout money over the summer, and Keith finally being put in the dirt will give them another little window during the UFA period to solidify the roster. Or double down on Holland's penchant for pissing away prime dollars.

All they have to do is get through this one-year cap crunch and they should be fine. I don't trust this management to do it intelligently however.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Berezkin, Maksim	3	$925,000
Bourgault, Xavier	3	$925,000
Brind'Amour, Skyler	1	$925,000
Denezhkin, Maxim	2	$925,000
Engaras, Filip	1	$925,000
Räsänen, Aapeli	1	$925,000
Savoie, Carter	3	$925,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
McLeod, Ryan	1	$900,000
Niemeläinen, Markus	2	$850,000
Puljujärvi, Jesse	6	$5,000,000
Samorukov, Dmitri	1	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Gagner, Sam	1	$900,000
Pysyk, Mark	1	$900,000
Sceviour, Colton	1	$900,000

Trades

EDM

Bailey, Josh
Varlamov, Semyon ($1,500,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Trade occurs after the Christmas roster freeze

NYI

Kassian, Zack
Lavoie, Raphael
2022 1st round pick (EDM)
2023 4th round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

(RC) Kyle Turris

EDM

(LC) Cody Eakin

Trade occurs simultaneously with the NYI deal

BUF

Siikanen, Patrik [Reserve List]
2023 3rd round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

(G) Mikko Koskinen

EDM

Carcone, Michael
2022 4th round pick (ARI)

Additional Details:

Trade occurs closer to the deadline and as the remaining Oilers get healthy: get assets instead of losing players to waivers

ARI

Benson, Tyler [RFA Rights]
Koekkoek, Slater

EDM

Donskoi, Joonas ($1,950,000 retained)
2022 3rd round pick (SEA)
2023 4th round pick (COL)

SEA

Barrie, Tyson
Yamamoto, Kailer [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

2022 Draft Day trade

EDM

2024 6th round pick (ARI)

ARI

Smith, Mike

EDM

2024 7th round pick (TBL)

TBL

Klefbom, Oscar

Buyouts

James Neal: $1,916,667
Andrej Sekera: $1,500,000

Retained Salary Transactions

Milan Lucic: $750,000 (12.5%)

Buried

Derek Ryan: $125,000 ($1,250,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$82,500,000	$81,802,795	$896,000	$2,200,000	$697,205

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 6	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C NMC UFA - 4	Puljujärvi, Jesse $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW UFA - 1
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 7	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Bailey, Josh $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 2
Foegele, Warren $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Holloway, Dylan $925,000$925,000 ($500,000$500K) LW, C RFA - 2	Donskoi, Joonas $1,950,000$1,950,000 RW UFA - 1
McLeod, Ryan $900,000$900,000 C RFA - 1	Sceviour, Colton $900,000$900,000 RW, C UFA	Gagner, Sam $900,000$900,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Nurse, Darnell $9,250,000$9,250,000 LD NMC UFA - 8	Bouchard, Evan $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 1	Varlamov, Semyon $3,500,000$3,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Broberg, Philip $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) LD RFA - 2	Ceci, Cody $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 3	Skinner, Stuart $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Keith, Duncan $5,538,462$5,538,462 LD NMC UFA - 1	Pysyk, Mark $900,000$900,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Samorukov, Dmitri $900,000$900,000 LD UFA - 1
Shore, Devin $850,000$850,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Puljujärvi, J.		Draisaitl, L.		Nugent-Hopkins, R.
	Bouchard, E.		McDavid, C.

Power Play 2
Donskoi, J.		Holloway, D.		Bailey, J.
	Gagner, S.		Keith, D.

Penalty Kill 1
	McLeod, R.	Sceviour, C.
	Nurse, D.	Pysyk, M.

Penalty Kill 2
	Nugent-Hopkins, R.	Hyman, Z.
	Broberg, P.	Ceci, C.

Top Comments

Dec. 15, 2021 at 8:35 p.m.

Boltsbeathabs

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 6,858

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Why is TB paying to take on a contract slot and pay the uninsured part. This is absolutely mind boggling stupid for them!!!! There is absolutely no benefit for having more LTIR except to maybe get to the floor (TB doesn't have to worry about that)

Dec. 15, 2021 at 8:49 p.m.

BeterChiarelli

Ban Price trades

Joined: Oct. 2017

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Quoting: Boltsbeathabs

For the same reason Toronto and Tampa have historically acquired LTIR contracts. Cap circumvention.

Dec. 15, 2021 at 8:54 p.m.

joshelkin

Islanders Fan

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 7,849

Likes: 2,764

We were getting Räsänen too last night?

I still don't think they should retain on Varly. I realize it's only for a season but I tested this out on an unposted ACGM and between the retention and buyout of Kassian it made it difficult to fill a roster I liked. Felt like it needed one more piece and the cap was too tight

Dec. 15, 2021 at 8:59 p.m.

cmarch

Joined: Nov. 2021

Posts: 538

Likes: 180

Quoting: joshelkin

We were getting Räsänen too last night?

Retention on Varly makes no sense cap wise in any scenario. Unless you are signing a 1M backup, which would be unlikely. You're paying 3-5M for the backup with Varly's salary. The only benefit is a non lottery pick anywhere in the draft, which is solid but I'm not sure it makes much sense

Dec. 15, 2021 at 9:00 p.m.

BeterChiarelli

Ban Price trades

Joined: Oct. 2017

Posts: 6,482

Likes: 6,455

Quoting: joshelkin

We were getting Räsänen too last night?

I went with Lavoie > Rasanen and some other little piece, the optics for the Islanders looked better in my opinion. Perhaps I'm overvaluing Lavoie.

I don't know how any Varlamov trade to Edmonton occurs without retention. Edmonton manages to net the Islanders nearly $8M in cap space for next season and y'all still can't make it work?

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Year 2 of the Big Islanders Deal

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Free Agent Signings

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EDM

NYI

EDM

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EDM

ARI

EDM

SEA

EDM

ARI

EDM

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