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Created by: Leon_McNuge

Team: 2021-22 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 17, 2021

Published: Feb. 17, 2021

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The Ehlers deal was scary to do, it would be a huge move. I like Broberg and i know you should have prospects in your pool that are good, but this team has focused on the future enough. We need to win now and acquiring Ehlers helps us a great deal in that, perfect fit with McDavid and lets us use the DRY line and still give McDavid more then enough to work with.

Depth: Kahun, Ennis, are good, hard workers who would be ncie depth for us. I brought Caggiula back as well because he's got speed and could bounce off of Ennis' energy well.

Defence: Basically a hailmary on defence. We bring in arguably the biggest fish in the FA market in Hamilton. Hamilton's got size and good awareness and is an amazing D man that could change the look of this D core all together while giving our young guys someone to learn off of. Having him with Klefbom would be a dream. Thats really it for Defense. Klefbom and Nurse are top 4 easily and having Lagesson and Jones be able to rotate gives us good 3rd pairing depth. Also Bear and Bouchard will be full timers, as they are ready as of right now. But i brought back Larsson a cheap deal just in case one of them struggles or gets injured. It's better to stick with the Devil you know rather the one you don't.

Goaltending: Here we brought in Tuuka Rask. Rask has always been a solid goalie. He can compete in playoffs and knows what it takes to win and has experienced the pressure. As for the backup goalie i brought in Brian Elliot. He's an older goalie who has proven to be a solid backup for PHI alongside Carter Hart.

McDavid and Draisaitl want to win and with this team I feel they go a level that we still haven't seen yet, the time to win is now

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Benson, Tyler	1	$775,000
Yamamoto, Kailer	3	$3,250,000
Kahun, Dominik	1	$1,000,000
Skinner, Stuart	3	$800,000
Wells, Dylan	1	$750,000
Lennström, Theodor	1	$925,000
Marody, Cooper	1	$950,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan	6	$6,875,000
Hamilton, Dougie	3	$9,250,000
Ennis, Tyler	1	$800,000
Rask, Tuukka	1	$5,000,000
Caggiula, Drake	1	$1,000,000
Larsson, Adam	1	$1,000,000
Elliott, Brian	1	$1,000,000

Trades

EDM

2021 5th round pick (FLA)

FLA

Kassian, Zack ($750,000 retained)
2021 4th round pick (EDM)

EDM

2021 6th round pick (BUF)

BUF

Koskinen, Mikko
2022 3rd round pick (EDM)

EDM

ANA

Russell, Kris
2022 4th round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

To any team that will take him

EDM

Ehlers, Nikolaj

WPG

Broberg, Philip
2021 1st round pick (EDM)
2022 2nd round pick (EDM)
2023 2nd round pick (EDM)

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Milan Lucic: $750,000 (12.5%)
Zack Kassian: $750,000 (0%)

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
22	$81,500,000	$81,125,506	$669,339	$907,500	$374,494

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $6,875,000$6,875,000 LW, C UFA - 8	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C UFA - 5	Puljujärvi, Jesse $1,175,000$1,175,000 RW UFA - 1
Kahun, Dominik $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW, C UFA	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW UFA - 4	Yamamoto, Kailer $3,250,000$3,250,000 RW RFA - 1
Ennis, Tyler $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	McLeod, Ryan $834,167$834,167 ($57,500$58K) C RFA - 1	Caggiula, Drake $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
	Turris, Kyle $1,650,000$1,650,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Archibald, Josh $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
		Ehlers, Nikolaj $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 4

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Klefbom, Oscar $4,167,000$4,167,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Hamilton, Dougie $9,250,000$9,250,000 RD UFA - 7	Rask, Tuukka $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA - 1
Nurse, Darnell $5,600,000$5,600,000 LD UFA - 1	Bear, Ethan $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 1
Jones, Caleb $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Bouchard, Evan $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 2	Elliott, Brian $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Lagesson, William $725,000$725,000 LD/RD UFA - 1
Larsson, Adam $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD UFA - 4

Taxi Squad
Benson, Tyler $775,000$775,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Ehlers, N.		Draisaitl, L.		Nugent-Hopkins, R.
	Hamilton, D.		McDavid, C.

Power Play 2
Caggiula, D.		Turris, K.		Yamamoto, K.
	Nurse, D.		Bouchard, E.

Penalty Kill 1
	Turris, K.	Archibald, J.
	Klefbom, O.	Bear, E.

Penalty Kill 2
	Nugent-Hopkins, R.	Yamamoto, K.
	Nurse, D.	Hamilton, D.

Feb. 17, 2021 at 7:03 a.m.

DraftCentralMP

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 490

Likes: 74

Larsson gets at least 2 million

Feb. 17, 2021 at 7:06 a.m.

Lenny7

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 13,291

Likes: 11,051

I don't know...I think the value is there for Winnipeg to move Ehlers in that deal, but I wonder if good LD prospect is really what they need in an Ehlers deal? They've got Morrisey, Heinola, Samberg and Stanley all on that side.

I also doubt they'd move him now that Laine is gone. Suddenly you go from a super strong set of wingers in your top 6 to Connor, Wheeler, ?, ?.

It just seems like a very dangerous move for Winnipeg.

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Feb. 17, 2021 at 7:23 a.m.

Timmah007

Joined: Jun. 2020

Posts: 8,634

Likes: 3,931

Oilers can’t move broberg without certainty klef will return healthier than ever which is obviously doubtful.
Making deals with money only going one way is going to be insanely difficult maybe moving kass is possible but kosk will be much harder just due to the position and available options in free agency. Teams would sooner sign a guy than make a trade. Russell’s cap hit drops significantly next year he would be nice to have as a 7th d capable of covering injuries just don’t see a need to move him. Larsson will get at the very least 3x that contract deservingly so. Hamilton would be nice but I wouldn’t want to see such an investment on the back end really handcuffs options moving forward. Interesting targets for goaltending

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Feb. 17, 2021 at 7:50 a.m.

DiehardRedWingsFan58

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Dougie Hamilton isn't wasting his time with a 3 year deal, he'd easily get 7 years on the open market with slightly more AAV as well. And Ryan Nugent-Hopkins gets more money as well he'd be well sought out on the open market and he know's that.

Feb. 17, 2021 at 9:50 a.m.

hwjw

Joined: Mar. 2019

Posts: 1,289

Likes: 813

Yeah, I just don’t think a deal exists right now where they move Ehlers. He’s too important atm

Feb. 17, 2021 at 9:52 a.m.

Nhl_oilers

Joined: Mar. 2019

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Not a dream for me.

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Feb. 17, 2021 at 11:41 a.m.

Zmach

Pistol Pete

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 5,140

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The players they have on the right side of the defense are fine. The left side is weak but not for much longer if you keep Broberg and samorukov around. FYI Bouchard is the next Dougie Hamilton just so you know we don't need to go out and overpay for another. There is no reason to go out and trade for ehlers until they strike out on free agency with guys like Mike hoffman and Tomas Tatar.

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