THROWBACK Old Hot Take from THN

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Created by: TraeYoung

Team: 2020-21 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 6, 2021

Published: Apr. 6, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

In the 2015 or 2016 offseason, I can’t remember which one, The Hockey News released their annual offseason magazine. In this copy, an article was included that suggested the Oilers and Blackhawks make a trade. The Oilers would trade Leon Draisaitl to the Hawks in exchange for Brent Seabrook.

The thinking was sound. The Blackhawks are always in a cap crunch and coming off of a cup win against Tampa, they need to do a classic Hawks move and dump salary. The Oilers always seemed to need defense and despite recently drafting Darnell Nurse and the emergence of Oscar Klefbom, a veteran, cup champion and right handed Brent Seabrook seemed like a match. Now with Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Draisaitl seemed “expendable” to the writers at THN.

I figured this could be a fun discussion for a classic trade proposal that I can never forget. Imagine where the two teams would be now if this trade happened. What would that look like? What does this tell us about our own stupid trade proposals?

Thanks for discussing!

Trades

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
23	$81,500,000	$77,210,699	$341,534	$730,000	$4,289,301

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kahun, Dominik $975,000$975,000 LW, RW, C UFA - 1	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C UFA - 6	Puljujärvi, Jesse $1,175,000$1,175,000 RW UFA - 2
Chiasson, Alex $2,150,000$2,150,000 RW UFA - 1		Yamamoto, Kailer $894,166$894,166 ($230,000$230K) RW RFA - 1
Khaira, Jujhar $1,200,000$1,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Kassian, Zack $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 4
Shore, Devin $700,000$700,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1	Turris, Kyle $1,650,000$1,650,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Archibald, Josh $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
	Haas, Gaëtan $915,000$915,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Nurse, Darnell $5,600,000$5,600,000 LD UFA - 2	Larsson, Adam $4,166,666$4,166,666 RD UFA - 1	Koskinen, Mikko $4,500,000$4,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Russell, Kris $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Barrie, Tyson $3,750,000$3,750,000 RD UFA - 1	Smith, Mike $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($500,000$500K) G NTC UFA - 1
Jones, Caleb $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Bear, Ethan $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 2
	Seabrook, Brent $6,875,000$6,875,000 RD NMC UFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Lagesson, William $725,000$725,000 LD/RD UFA - 2		Klefbom, Oscar $4,167,000$4,167,000 LD UFA - 3
Stalock, Alex $785,000$785,000 G UFA - 2		Koekkoek, Slater $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Neal, James $5,750,000$5,750,000 ($4,675,000$5M$4,675,000$5M) RW, LW UFA - 3
Ennis, Tyler $1,000,000$1,000,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW UFA - 1
Nygård, Joakim $875,000$875,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW UFA - 1
Bouchard, Evan $863,333$863,333 ($0$0$0$0) ($500,000$500K) RD RFA - 3
Russell, Patrick $700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW UFA - 1

Apr. 6, 2021 at 10:21 a.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

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Those people got paid to write about hockey?

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Apr. 6, 2021 at 10:25 a.m.

Faulk_my_Dzingel

Smythe.over.Hart

Joined: Jul. 2019

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Trades are always interesting over time. In the case of the Oilers just look at the Hall for Larsson trade. At first everyone said good for Hall to get out of there, good for Edmonton to get a solid d man and ultimately we all said Devils won. A year later we were stunned with Hall having a lights out season and Larsson being average. The trade looked awful for Edmonton.... 2019-2020 season Oiler fans were ready to dump Larsson for a 7th. And then we arrive to today. Where I honestly couldn't say the Oilers lost on the trade. I've always liked Larsson and hated Hall. So my bias is strong. But from a pure hockey sense I would say the Oilers won over time.

Apr. 6, 2021 at 10:27 a.m.

irishbreadman

Kakko Redemption Szn

Joined: Oct. 2020

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both teams kinda benefit; letting the blackhawks try to extend their dynasty. but, from the oilers side, I'm assuming that taylor hall would not have been traded for adam larsson in 2016 then, giving the oilers a pretty solid roster.

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Apr. 6, 2021 at 11:03 a.m.

Oilyboy

The Spawn is back

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Quoting: irishbreadman

True, it would have looked good for one season, may have put EDM over the edge to get to the conference final (Seabrook was still a top 4, if not top pair dman that year). But what is wild is, IMO, Drai may have become an even better player/leader with the amount of veteran experience around him in Toews, Kane, Keith etc that he hasn't had on the Oil. So even with a better 2016/17 season for the Oil, would have ended up as absolutely terrible for a decade after lol.

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