The Only Way Oilers Entertain Elvis

Created by: OilersMcRockin

Team: 2023-24 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 13, 2024

Published: Jan. 13, 2024

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

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Unless the Colombus Blue Jackets magically want to take on Campbell and a very minimal pay load while trading Elvis, I do not think that the Oilers are the right fit here. This would be the only deal I'd maybe consider if I was Edmonton because everyone knows its below on what teams want to take on Campbell. So unless this happens, were going for a backup to backup Skinner like a Vladar or Blackwood.

Reason for this low load is Elvis's numbers have not been great for the past 2 and a half years, and his contract is exspensive, if the Oilers try and trade something like this, you could potentially be in Campbell situation 2.0 if he doesn't work out! Goalies are voodoo and unless its a very low offer in terms of payment from the Oil, it aint happening.

Trades

EDM

Merzlikins, Elvis

CBJ

Campbell, Jack
Tullio, Tyler
2024 1st round pick (EDM)

Buyouts

James Neal: $1,916,667

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$83,311,667	$850,000	$3,225,000	$188,333

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kane, Evander $5,125,000$5,125,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 3	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Hyman, Zach $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 6	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Hamblin, James $807,500$807,500 RW, C RFA - 1
Foegele, Warren $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	McLeod, Ryan $2,100,000$2,100,000 C RFA - 2	Brown, Connor $775,000$775,000 ($3,225,000$3M) RW, LW UFA - 1
Janmark, Mattias $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Ryan, Derek $900,000$900,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Gagner, Sam $775,000$775,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Nurse, Darnell $9,250,000$9,250,000 LD NMC UFA - 7	Bouchard, Evan $3,900,000$3,900,000 RD RFA - 2	Skinner, Stuart $2,600,000$2,600,000 G UFA - 3
Ekholm, Mattias $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Ceci, Cody $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 2	Merzlikins, Elvis $5,400,000$5,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Kulak, Brett $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Desharnais, Vincent $762,500$762,500 RD UFA - 1
	Kemp, Philip $775,000$775,000 RD RFA - 2

Top Comments

Jan. 13 at 1:53 p.m.

CaseyFlyman

Joined: Sep. 2018

Posts: 2,354

Likes: 2,122

"Unless the Colombus Blue Jackets magically want to take on Campbell and a very minimal pay load while trading Elvis..." Yeah, that's the only way it makes sense for Edmonton, I don't know who's arguing otherwise in good faith?

The price to dump Campbell is probably just short of a 1st, and the price to buy Elvis given the context of his deal is probably no more than a mid-round pick or equivalent prospect. I don't like the idea of Columbus retaining on Elvis for 4 years as I've seen elsewhere, I'd rather see a lighter return than retention since the deals are so similar.

As you have it here, that's pretty close to an even deal IMO. No need to complicate it unless you want to swap UFAs like Bean and Foegele to make the cap hits more even (and add picks to even out).