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Created by: CD282

Team: 2021-22 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 29, 2020

Published: Dec. 29, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Even with a flat cap, Edmonton has money to spend next summer. Who should they take a run at - Taylor Hall or Dougie Hamilton? Or someone else? They'll have $8.778M in cap space if Klefbom comes back and $12.945M if he doesn't (with a 22-man roster). Buying out James Neal brings the cap space to $16.778M with a 21-man roster - Edmonton could take a serious run at BOTH marquee free agents! But, should they? There are many more good UFA's coming to market in 2022.

Have your say below.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Blümel, Matej	3	$750,000
Denezhkin, Maxim	3	$750,000
Konovalov, Ilya	2	$750,000
Tullio, Tyler	3	$750,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Benson, Tyler	1	$800,000
Kahun, Dominik	3	$2,250,000
Yamamoto, Kailer	3	$2,250,000
Skinner, Stuart	2	$800,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan	5	$6,750,000
Ennis, Tyler	1	$1,000,000
Koekkoek, Slater	1	$1,000,000
Haas, Gaëtan	1	$1,000,000

Buyouts

Andrej Sekera: $1,500,000
James Neal: $1,916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Milan Lucic: $750,000 (12.5%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$81,500,000	$65,049,339	$669,339	$850,000	$16,450,661

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kahun, Dominik $2,250,000$2,250,000 LW, RW, C UFA	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C UFA - 5	Puljujärvi, Jesse $1,175,000$1,175,000 RW UFA - 1
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $6,750,000$6,750,000 LW, C UFA - 8	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW UFA - 4	Yamamoto, Kailer $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW RFA - 1
Ennis, Tyler $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Turris, Kyle $1,650,000$1,650,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Kassian, Zack $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 3
		Archibald, Josh $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Haas, Gaëtan $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Nurse, Darnell $5,600,000$5,600,000 LD UFA - 1	Bear, Ethan $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Koskinen, Mikko $4,500,000$4,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Jones, Caleb $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Bouchard, Evan $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 2
Samorukov, Dmitri $825,000$825,000 LD UFA - 1	Koekkoek, Slater $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Konovalov, Ilya $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Benson, Tyler $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1		Klefbom, Oscar $4,167,000$4,167,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2
Russell, Kris $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Which marquee UFA should Edmonton persue?

Dec. 29, 2020 at 11:25 a.m.

#26

Hockyluv21

Joined: Mar. 2019

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Quoting: CD282

It doesn't always work out like that.

This is EXACTLY the same pushback everyone got for signing Alex Pietrangelo to their AGM's last summer - and look what happened. It's incredible how short our memories are and how foolish we are to think that players will do what we think they should do.

I never posted Petro trade-and-extensions for a reason. St. Louis IMO wanted to own-rental Petro. They were hoping to hammer out an extension until the very end, but they also knew that if he got too expensive, they had another target in mind in UFA (i.e. Krug). Cap space has its own value for teams that are favorable destinations. Carolina's becoming a more intriguing UFA destination for many guys, but it isn't quite there with the cup champion of 2 years ago just yet.

Dec. 29, 2020 at 11:44 a.m.

#27

CD282

Thread Starter

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Quoting: Copenhagen

Goaltending and D are a bigger concern of mine. Would like to have a better D than Barrie, guy is a nightmare, but does bring offense. If I am spending on what he will probably want, I want better in own zone. And goalie, we need a better backup or 40 game guy, money better spent.

Yeah, but there's TONS of money available - over $12M even if Klefbom is back. And Barrie has been a decent 2nd pairing guy all his life except for last year when he was given easier comp. And other than the 1.5 months he played under Babcock, he killed those minutes. As I said, no decision needs to be made until July, and we'll know a lot more then, but right now I'd lean towards Barrie at $5M short-term over Hamilton at $8M long-term.

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Dec. 29, 2020 at 12:59 p.m.

#28

JmoneyTalk

Ouch

Joined: Sep. 2020

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Quoting: Caniac2000

Why would Carolina not bring Hamilton back for less than 9 mil? They're a better team than Edmonton, with a better climate, a better tax haven, and the only place he's ever escaped criticism in his career.

Their not better then EDM though

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Dec. 29, 2020 at 1:21 p.m.

#29

Smokingun71

Joined: Apr. 2018

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If Hall will take a 7M x 5 or 6 years then I am all over that deal. As far as Hamilton goes, he will want 9M and I am not willing to pay that. If I am going to pay 9M then I wait and go hard after Seth Jones, if that fails then I offer Parayko 6x6.5

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Dec. 29, 2020 at 1:41 p.m.

#30

Caniac2000

Joined: May 2018

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Quoting: JmoneyTalk

Their not better then EDM though

Carolina are better than Edmonton

Dec. 29, 2020 at 2:33 p.m.

#31

JmoneyTalk

Ouch

Joined: Sep. 2020

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Quoting: Caniac2000

Carolina are better than Edmonton

But they aren't though

Dec. 29, 2020 at 3:53 p.m.

#32

Saskleaf

Go leafs go

Joined: Apr. 2020

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Quoting: CD282

Undoing the Chiarelli years would make this team one of the best ever.

Maybe not best ever, but ya, it would be on par with tampa if not better.

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