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Created by: Greed

Team: 2022-23 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 13, 2022

Published: Jun. 13, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Salary cap reflects the money we would receive in the cap recapture if Keith Retires.

This roster reflects what I think would be the best case scenario if both Keith and Smith retire. Kane resigns at 6 mil in a bit of a discount just so he can play with McDavid again. Kulak is rumored to come back at 2 mil per. Kuzmenko would sign at the maximum possible and be a sniper for Draisaitl to pass too. Puljujarvi would accept a 1 year qualifying offer and get the most opportunity to play with McDavid and inflate his numbers for next year. The going rate for 20 goal scorers seems to be around 3-4 mil, so that's what I gave Yamamoto. McLeod gets a bridge deal. Lybushkin could also be Gudbranson as well, just any RD that plays defense. Perhaps a trade for Hakanpaa using Kassian would work as well, but i was trying to avoid trades as much as possible. Trade would send us Gibson for a 1st, 3rd, and Barrie. I think Anaheim would be interested in Barrie, but if not we can include a prospect instead (Lavoie?).

I feel as though this roster is extremely likely to exist so long as Keith and Smith retire. Only one trade being made, and the contracts all seem relatively reasonable, give or take a couple 100k here or there. Goaltending wise it moves the needle forward massively, and hopefully the defense is an improvement as well. Forward core seems relatively the same.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
McLeod, Ryan	2	$1,500,000
Puljujärvi, Jesse	1	$1,500,000
Yamamoto, Kailer	4	$3,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kulak, Brett	2	$2,000,000
Lyubushkin, Ilya	3	$2,000,000
Kane, Evander	5	$6,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kuzmenko, Andrei		1	$925,000

Trades

EDM

Gibson, John

ANA

Barrie, Tyson
2022 1st round pick (EDM)
2023 3rd round pick (EDM)

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Milan Lucic: $750,000 (12.5%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$85,900,000	$84,726,833	$896,000	$2,200,000	$1,173,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kane, Evander $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	McDavid, Connor $12,500,000$12,500,000 C NMC UFA - 4	Puljujärvi, Jesse $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW UFA - 1
Kuzmenko, Andrei $925,000$925,000	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Yamamoto, Kailer $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW RFA - 2
Hyman, Zach $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 6	Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 LW, C NMC UFA - 7	Holloway, Dylan $925,000$925,000 ($500,000$500K) LW, C RFA - 2
		Ryan, Derek $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Foegele, Warren $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	McLeod, Ryan $1,500,000$1,500,000 C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Nurse, Darnell $9,250,000$9,250,000 LD NMC UFA - 8	Bouchard, Evan $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 1	Gibson, John $6,400,000$6,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
Broberg, Philip $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) LD RFA - 2	Ceci, Cody $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 3	Skinner, Stuart $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Kulak, Brett $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Lyubushkin, Ilya $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Shore, Devin $850,000$850,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1		Keith, Duncan $5,538,462$5,538,462 LD NMC UFA - 1
Kassian, Zack $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 2		Smith, Mike $2,200,000$2,200,000 G UFA - 1
Niemeläinen, Markus $762,500$762,500 LD UFA - 2		Klefbom, Oscar $4,167,000$4,167,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1

Jun. 13, 2022 at 8:07 a.m.

CD282

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Quoting: Greed

Goaltending wise it moves the needle forward massively

Wrong. Gibson hasn't been elite since 2018. Even Mike Smith has been better recently.

Jun. 13, 2022 at 8:15 a.m.

Greed

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Quoting: CD282

Wrong. Gibson hasn't been elite since 2018. Even Mike Smith has been better recently.

I would say that the team surrounding Gibson has also been pretty poor the last few years as well. I think on the Oilers (new environment, stronger team in front of him) he would perform better than Mike Smith has. In addition, I think Skinner performed better than both Smith and Koskinen this year (Smaller sample size being the asterisk).

Jun. 13, 2022 at 8:39 a.m.

GeneralLandro

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Barrie doesn’t have any value to Anaheim since we already have Drysdale and Shatty

Jun. 13, 2022 at 8:40 a.m.

CD282

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Quoting: Greed

I would say that the team surrounding Gibson has also been pretty poor the last few years as well.

The excuses never end with Gibson. Does he have incriminating photos of you too? You don't have to look any farther than GSAx or the fact that his backups usually outperform him to realize that Gibson is a part of the problem in Anaheim. He's just not as good as his reputation, full stop.

Quoting: Greed

I think on the Oilers (new environment, stronger team in front of him) he would perform better than Mike Smith has.

Where's your evidence for this? Because I don't see any, anywhere.

Quoting: Greed

In addition, I think Skinner performed better than both Smith and Koskinen this year (Smaller sample size being the asterisk).

Skinner did not perform better than healthy Mike Smith. Smith was .915 this season, Skinner was .913. In terms of GSAx, Smith was +0.281/60 while Skinner was +0.074/60.

Skinner did outperform Koskinen by these metrics, although in a smaller sample size as you mentioned.

Jun. 13, 2022 at 8:42 a.m.

Timmah007

Joined: Jun. 2020

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I worry about how much spent here. The following season won't have that extra cap Keith provided so even if the cap goes up another million still less than what have here and bouch and jp and skinner are three guys I'd rather not be completely strapped going into. I get there is ways to work it in but went down a very challenging path. I don't hate this Gibson do think he can be much better here but I want to see skinner given a chance to run with it before making a significant investment.

Jun. 13, 2022 at 10:06 a.m.

Johnny_Left_Calgary_For_Columbus

Joined: Jun. 2022

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Quoting: Timmah007

the 3.4m saved in keith cap next year only, is actually close to the cap relief of sekera and lucic coming off the books in 2023 at 2.25m. combine that with the increase in cap and the fact that contracts like derek Ryan is off the books it should be okay.

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