What Now

Team: 2023-24 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: May 15, 2023

Published: May 18, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

What kind of changes will EDM make, clearly they a few upgrades. Those will be difficult with the tight cap, RFA deals for Bouchard and Mcleod and limited draft capital.

Couple Notes:

Bob Stauffer mentioned perhaps the Nurse pair needs a puck mover, this would somehow put the emphasis on Nurse to focus on the defensive side of his game and play more physical. Not entirely sure I agree with the premise as he wa paired with Bouchard for a period of time and did not alter his game in the manner that Stauffer alluded too. However I agree that the Oil need to improve on Ceci. He is a tradeable asset who had strong stretches in EDM, especially last years playoff run when he really anchored that top pair. That being said, he is limited and EDM needs to upgrade there in order to give them two 25min per night pairs if they need.

Does a 3rd pair of Broberg and Vinny scare you? I know it scares the hell outta me but the Oil need to give Brberg some rope. Vinny has some areas of weakness in his game that hopefully he address's this summer. While I'd love to keep a great 3rd pair Dman like Kulak around, his contract makes him a prime candidate to be moved especially if it helps address other areas of need such as 2RW??

Yamo out for space and depth ..... if you can find a suitor.

No more running 11&7, 12&6 and balance the goalie starts. Skinner was 100% burnt out these playoffs, and that cannot happen again next year. I think you could say the same thing about a lot of the Oilers players due to the 11&7 , its a big burden to do so frequently.

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