Quoting: RWellington
Kerfoot, Saad and Petry are all extended beyond this season. This is not exactly adding rentals and EDM needs to start making the playoffs.
Trading picks and prospects for rentals is hardly ever worth it however aside from trading Benson, Bouchard and Broberg/Samorukov the Oilers can afford to deal a few in order to add to this group which already has many of its key pieces in place.
I would not even think of trading Benson, Bouchard, Broberg or Samorukov until we at least know what we have.
Bouchard, with his fluid, fast skating, and his insane point shot is going to be a key piece of the team in years to come. He could by a top-pairing RHD, of which the team will need after Larsson's contract runs out.
Samorukov is a potential draft steal (big, scored a lot in junior, hits people very hard). Still pretty raw, but he could be a dark horse.
Broberg was so dominant at world juniors, is unreal fast, and his coaches in Sweden rave about him being the second coming . . . very young, but already shows very high promise. He is going to be NHL-ready just as Oscar Klefbom will start aging out.
Benson could be a cheap, skilled 3LW who will hopefully give a hometown discount. At least give him a shot at the NHL level is what I would say.
Maybe someone like Caleb Jones or William Lagesson would make sense to trade since there are already many LHD ahead of them at the moment. Lagesson is far along in his development, but I do not know what his ceiling could be. Jones skates really well and already is starting to look like an NHLer, so a team might want to trade for him. It would all depend on what we could get back for either.
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