Fleury Spurgeon and Smith

As much as I like spurgeon. this would not be a good trade long term for EDM. The cap complication in that time with Dri and bouchard EXT plus Mdavid. the 7M will make it very tough at that point.

What do you mean? They dumped the Campbell contract (which there’s no chance Minnesota does that anyways)

agreed Minnesota wouldnt do that.

It adds 2 million more in cap down the road with Dri who will get a huge raise probably in the 13M range and bouchard who is having a career year at a point per game... have to think that will be 7.5-9M range at least. that eats up 20-22M and a roster of 10 players. now with the remaining 18-20M you need to sign 11-13 players including 2 top 6 fwds and a goalie. also have to keep in mind mcdavid and skinner raise the follow year which will be what 15M and 4-5 M for skinner.

what I am saying is don't need the extra 2 mill tide up in an aging defenseman... will cause big headaches.

I worked the deal out with Minnesota Wild fans. The talk is that he's not worth such a massive deal and they need to maneuver around their $14.5M buyouts to Parise and Suter. The buyout between Campbell and Spurgeon is similar in value, but they recoup assets in this case and get a one-year stopgap in Ceci while they're still retooling.

The risk is more Edmonton's but the focus of the goal is to juice the last bit of usefulness out of Spurgeon over the next two seasons before considering jettisoning him via buyoutor other means. He should pair exceptionally well with Nurse and if it means a cup or two in the next two years, I don't care about year three or four of the deal.

It's virtually a deal for the next two years before the Draisaitl extension is due. I won't pretend to assume the cap could accommodate by then but Edmonton can accommodate his buyout then much better than they can afford Campbell's this summer. If it means a cup or two within this two year window, I'm taking it every day. I don't think a better deal to get rid of Campbell exists.

The deal was arranged with fans of the Wild. The buyouts between Spurgeon and Campbell are comparable and due to their dead cap situation, may be forced to buy out Spurgeon. It seems like an opportune way to get rid of Campbell.