Bear won't get near that much. He has no arbitration rights. Maybe around what Smith will get but doubt it. Probably bonus heavy again at 2mil base. Probably a mill and 2 years to much for cracknell, he's going to play in the minors all year barring 3 roster players getting injured

I don’t want Adam Cracknell on this team, especially with McDavid. And that contract is bad. Bear will get a 1-2 year 1.5-2M bridge prove it deal. Don’t get Cracknell! Get a guy like Jarnkrok, and have Nugent-Hopkins with Draisaitl and Yamamoto again. Then go and get Puljujarvi and get him to play with McDavid. Way better than Archibald and Cracknell. Then we can use the extra cap to get a actual backup, and a 3c. We will have to do some trades of course, but that’s what we should be targeting. A left winger to play with McDavid in this case (Jarnkrok), a good backup (Griess, Khudobin, or Korpisalo) that’s just a few there’s more that we could get, and a 3c (Faksa, Soderberg, or Haula) again there’s more but those ones are good. And we can hopefully trade Russell, and Neal to help with that money. I think Holland’s doing some trades anyway.

Yeah but we're the Oilers. We dont make logical moves like you just described.

Maybe Holland will. Hopefully.

Dammit Ken, I had high hopes for you

blame chia, he's the one who tells me what to do

Haha, I knew it!