Oilfollower, I'm presuming your a Edm fan here but why is EDM making this trade? Your opinion.

The only reason I see here is that Pleky is a defensive C, so utilizing him at the 3C would be helpful for the Oilers. At this point though I don't think Pleky is worth Nuge. And the Oilers are most probably trading Nuge for Dman.

Oh I know why you think this trade doesn't make sense. i'm curious to see what OP thinks about it. From an Oiler perspective I'm curious to see what he's thinking about this trade.

Oh true.

First round pick and let pleky got to Vegas opens up to make big offer for shattekrik in the off season

I see. So this only makes sense if Plekanec its taken by LV? Might be a big gamble to take for EDM. What if LV decides to not take him?

Also not sure but i think i heard that Shattenkrik won't sign in Edm when he's a UFA anyway. I think it was reported that he wants to go east in the states? Anyone want to confirm that?

Well if he doesn't the u ride out one more season with him at 6 million and Edmonton needs to make a big offer on a dman in the next two years doesn't have to be shattenkirk. I'm not to sure but that was my logic behind the trade. Also who else would Vegas take if they get rid of Davidson and leave pouliot and pleky unprotected

Ok fine. I get your logic. From another teams perspective, don't you think another team could offer the Oilers a better, low term player, instead of Plekanec though? If the goal was to free up cap space, there are handful of teams that will take Nuge off your hands without giving you any salary in return (In the off-season preferably).

If the trade had to be right now, If I'm Carolina or NJ, I'd easily offer a 1st rounder and an ok prospect with no cap dump going your way.

Anyways my point in asking was to see if you could convince me to thinking this trade was plausible. (I'm a Habs fan and was really hoping you would) Unfortunately, Chiarelli would be run out of town if he made this trade. If the goal is save cap space, there are ton of other deals available to be made. This one barely does that at all. Not too mention the Davidson is decent dman. You could get a decent draft pick for him. Dalton Thrower however is so bad that he'll probably be an average player in the ECHL for the rest of his life, just to give you an idea. Quite possibly the worst 2nd round pick in Habs recent history.

I agree with you 100 percent this isn't close to the best trade option just another idea with the injuries lol

Yeah a deal centered around a 34 year old Plekanec for Ryan Nugent-Hopkins get real here this is pure garbage. No way does this crap get you RNH.

LMFAO A 34 year old Plekanec for a 23 year old Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Edmonton is trying to get younger not older and 1 year of Plekanec for 4 years of Nugent-Hopkins wont cut it.

Confirmed.