Defense trade and signing targets

Created by: hockeyconnor97

Team: 2022-23 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 3, 2023

Published: Jan. 3, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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There seems to be a decent amount of decent defensemen as well as some elite ones available for trade, as well as a lot in this years FA class.

The Oilers desperately need an upgrade on D, and I think that they need an LD at the TDL, and then an upgrade/cheaper option for Barrie on RD.

I ranked these options by how much I want the Oilers to pursue them based on:
- h=How good they are
- How well they fit the Oilers' needs
- How much it would take to trade for them (if applicable)
- Contract (or predicted contract if applicable)

Ideally, with cap space and amount of trade pieces in mind, my favourite scenarios would be (assuming we can dump Barrie somewhere):
1. Trade for Chychrun, sign Mayfield/Johnson
2. Trade for and extend Gavrikov, sign Mayfield
3. Sign Soucy, trade for one of Roy/Walker/Demelo

Trades

EDM

Chychrun, Jakob

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Would be the ideal choice. Term and AAV are very good value for someone of his caliber. Trade would take a lot though.

ARI

EDM

Reilly, Mike

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A low value dman that could play bottom pair, ideally another contract goes back. Wouldn't take a lot in a trade

BOS

EDM

Kylington, Oliver

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Not completely sure what the deal is with Kylington, but if Calgary is moving on from him we should be jumping at that opportunity. Probably unlikely because the Flames and Oilers are in the same division.

CGY

EDM

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Two decent bottom 4 dmen on a bad team, pretty realistic for Chicago and Edmonton to make a trade for one of them. I'd rather McCabe.

CHI

EDM

Johnson, Erik

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More of a FA target, could be a good bottom pairing Barrie replacement at RD if we trade Barrie.

COL

EDM

Gavrikov, Vladislav

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Good defensive dman on a bad team, ideal trade target for EDM, but could cost quite a bit and comes with some uncertainty of resigning. Could also target him in FA.

CBJ

EDM

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One of them could be decent RD as a cheaper replacement to Barrie if he is traded.

LAK

EDM

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Edmundson could be a good addition to the Oilers D, which needs an LD. Savard is probably the lesser option, but again could be a decent replacement for Barrie.

MTL

EDM

Severson, Damon

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Probably the best RD option, a trade would cost a lot, and a signing could also be quite expensive. If the oilers don't get a quality LD, Severson would be a very good option if Barrie is traded.

NJD

10.

EDM

Mayfield, Scott

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Underrated option in FA if Barrie is traded, doubt a trade happens for him this season though, because Barrie would need to either go back the other way in a RD trade (doubt NYI want him) or in a seperate deal (unlikely).

NYI

11.

EDM

Provorov, Ivan

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Unlikely, but could turn his play around in EDM, might be a good buy low candidate. High salary makes it hard to take that risk though.

PHI

12.

EDM

Dumoulin, Brian

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Decent LD FA option, trade very unlikely

PIT

13.

EDM

Soucy, Carson

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Very good LD FA option, shouldn't be insanely expensive.

SEA

14.

EDM

Mikkola, Niko

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Decent bottom pair LD FA option

STL

15.

EDM

Orlov, Dmitry

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Good LD FA option, probably resigns in WSH though

WSH

16.

EDM

DeMelo, Dylan

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Probably won't get traded, but if WPG wanted to, EDM should go for him.

WPG

17.

EDM

Klingberg, John

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I wasn't initially going to include Klingberg on this post because the Oilers don't need another good offensive Dman that is bad defensively, but he has been in lots of trade rumours so I added him.

ANA

Buyouts

James Neal: $1,916,667
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
2023
2024
2025

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LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
34	$82,500,000	$146,761,499	$896,000	$2,200,000	-$64,261,499

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 7	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C NMC UFA - 4	Hyman, Zach $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 6
Kane, Evander $5,125,000$5,125,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Yamamoto, Kailer $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW RFA - 2
Foegele, Warren $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	McLeod, Ryan $798,000$798,000 C RFA - 1	Puljujärvi, Jesse $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW UFA - 1
Janmark, Mattias $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Holloway, Dylan $925,000$925,000 ($500,000$500K) LW, C RFA - 2	Kostin, Klim $750,000$750,000 LW, RW RFA - 1
	Ryan, Derek $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Hamblin, James $807,500$807,500 RW, C RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Nurse, Darnell $9,250,000$9,250,000 LD NMC UFA - 8	Ceci, Cody $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 3	Campbell, Jack $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
Kulak, Brett $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Barrie, Tyson $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Skinner, Stuart $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Broberg, Philip $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) LD RFA - 2	Bouchard, Evan $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 1
Murray, Ryan $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Chychrun, Jakob $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Mayfield, Scott $1,450,000$1,450,000 RD UFA - 1	Klefbom, Oscar $4,167,000$4,167,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1
Gavrikov, Vladislav $2,800,000$2,800,000 LD UFA - 1	Roy, Matt $3,150,000$3,150,000 RD UFA - 2	Smith, Mike $2,200,000$2,200,000 G UFA - 1
Soucy, Carson $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Severson, Damon $4,166,666$4,166,666 RD UFA - 1
Kylington, Oliver $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	DeMelo, Dylan $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2
Provorov, Ivan $4,725,000$4,725,000 LD UFA - 3	Walker, Sean $2,650,000$2,650,000 LD/RD UFA - 2
McCabe, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 3
Orlov, Dmitry $1,275,000$1,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Murphy, Connor $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4
Dumoulin, Brian $4,100,000$4,100,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Klingberg, John $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1
Reilly, Mike $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD UFA - 2
Mikkola, Niko $1,900,000$1,900,000 LD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jan. 3, 2023 at 3:09 p.m.

Gmonwy

GO FLAMES GO

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I could see something around Pool party for Kylington

Jan. 3, 2023 at 3:14 p.m.

Lenny7

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Assuming you guys don't miraculously shed a couple of bad contracts this offseason, you guys are at $75.225 mil/$83.5 with 16 players signed so far...Again, just an assumption, but guessing Bouchard is something close to Dobson's 3 x $4 mil bridge, leaving under $4 mil to fix the issue.

Obviously, disappearing Barrie would be quite helpful, but I just don't see it.

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Jan. 3, 2023 at 3:18 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

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I highly doubt that Matt Roy is available, but Sean Durzi and Jordan Spence as well as Sean Walker should be available. What about Spence for Philip Broberg?

Jan. 3, 2023 at 3:57 p.m.

MeetYourMakar

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You stay away from The Condor.

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Jan. 3, 2023 at 4:08 p.m.

Xqb15a

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I think there are maybe 3 teams that EJ would play for besides COL and no Canadian team makes the list.

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Trades

EDM

ARI

EDM

BOS

EDM

CGY

EDM

CHI

EDM

COL

EDM

CBJ

EDM

LAK

EDM

MTL

EDM

NJD

EDM

NYI

EDM

PHI

EDM

PIT

EDM

SEA

EDM

STL

EDM

WSH

EDM

WPG

EDM

ANA

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