That Edmonton trade is a great way to kill Brobergs career, but other than that is fine. St. Louis fans wont like it though

No thanks from LA. I'd rather have Kupari than Olofsson.

When you look at the oilers roster who do they need more tarasenko or kosk? I think it’s more likely smith will need help covering an 82 game season than oilers needing help scoring goals pretty sure that part is already well covered. Could take out broberg and the first oilers still have to decline it has nothing to do with value of assets it’s about what the team needs more currently that’s kosk.

Edmonton doesn’t need a winger they need a goalie.

I agree Edmonton would need another goalie, but nothing is stopping them from trading for one. They'd save $0.75m in cap space with that trade and could then look for a goalie that's more capable than Koskinen or at least as capable and also cheaper. They could check in on goalies like Kahkonen, Vanacek (imo they should've made a play for either one before the expansion draft), Montembault, Korpisalo, etc. Washington gave up a 2nd to get Vanacek back, clearly they could have paid that.

Smith will be done soon and Koskinen won't cut it. Sooner or later they needed to trade Koskinen and find a better replacement. If they waive Stalock & Archibald, and make the trade I'm proposing then they'll still have $5.03m in cap space to find another goalie and take back salary, and their forwards will now be:
Hyman-McDavid-Puljujarvi
Foegele-Draisaitl-Tarasenko
Perlini-RNH-Yamamoto
Turris-Ryan-Kassian
(Shore, McLeod, Sceviour, Holloway, Marody, Benson, Lavoie)

Yeah I don't love it, but if the neck thing disappears I see no reason to bash the trade value. Just looking at the Blues team for the future though, losing Thomas and Neighbours and adding a 10m long-term forward makes it extremely hard to keep the band together. It probably means no more Perron, no more ROR, no more Kyrou, and the guys that would fill around Eichel just got traded away for him. Basically, the window becomes 2 years, and then the team painfully dissolves to nothing but bad immovable contracts and a star center. Would be a fun ride though, and you could trade Eichel in 2 yrs to trigger the rebuild, which would be peak irony.

That's on them. They had loads of opportunities before the expansion draft seeing as they were one of the only teams without a goalie worth protecting. They could have gotten any number of quality goalies for dirt cheap.

At the end of the day this forward roster can already score goals though. If the Oilers are going to look at trading a 1st and their best D prospect, they better be addressing their needs directly rather than adding to a position of strength.

Kupari for Olofsson would be an acceptable trade, but we don't really need another LW. Los Angeles declines before even discussing how slanted towards the Sabres this offer is. You can make a colorable argument that Olofsson is worth Kupari plus the second (personally, I don't think so), but Quick >>> Dell and that doesn't even bring Thomas into the picture.

Koskinen’s 4.5 million prevented them from signing a goalie.

With Eichel, Schenn, Buchnevich, Saad, Faulk, Krug, Parayko, and Binnington locked up long term, I don't expect it would prevent them from locking people up all that much. Likely lose Perron, but at 33 that might end up being better anyways since he could command more than he's worth. O'Reilly, Kyrou, Sundqvist, and Barbashev will need new contracts in 2 years, but the cap is also supposed to rise by $2m.

So $7m left in cap space (including current cap space after the trade) + their current contracts to sign those 4 players. That's enough to resign O'Reilly at $9m, Kyrou at $6m, Sundqvist at $4m, and Barbashev at $3m.

My thoughts were Thomas + Kupari for Olofsson (maybe a pick instead of one of them is more fair). And Quick + 2nd for Dell considering if LA wants to be competitive in 2022-23 they'll need to rid themselves of Quick with Petersen starting his $5m contract.

We don't need to rid ourselves of Quick with Edler and Maatta coming off the books and Brown probably getting re-upped for one year at appreciably less than his current ticket. Plus, the simple truth is that Quick is better than Dell.

Oilers easily decline