Jake Evans

Nobody would trade Bourgault to get Jake Evan’s even if they got rid of Barrie. Give me a break lmao.

They have a 21 player roster and 13K in cap space, they need room to maneuver. They also need a cheap quality option to add to their bottom-6 and to replace Tyson with a cheap and efficient stop gap.

Unless they come back with cap room that's the offer on the table to solve their problems.

Dumping Barrie is worth at least a 2nd. Kovacevic would be a better third pairing D than Barrie. Evans would be a very good depth player, allowing RNH to play top 6 wing.

I don't think it's a bad offer for Bourgault. He's a good prospect, but not worth more than what he was drafted at (a 1st between 20 and 30).

trading a pretty good prospect to "dump" a 40 point player at a position of weakness and get a player the Oilers don't need and bottom pair dman that was on waviers in exchange, no thanks

Winnipeg was not expecting to lose him on waivers. I have to admit that it was a surprisingly nice pick up.

You seem to underestimate how much it costs to dump a player like Barrie with a 2 x $4.5mm contract. It cost a first to Calgary to dump Monahan and his 1 x $6.3mm contract, and Monahan is far from being finished.